What are all of you taking?

[Guest guest]

I have tried to solve my Hypothyroidism with supplementations first.

It worked for awhile but I am not doing well. When I am wrong I admit it. My

doctor told me what I was taking was fine if it continues to work.

Now I would like to ask any and all of you please:

What are you taking, how much and how do you feel?

Please, I really need your help. I cannot function anymore.

I cannot experiment anymore I am too old for that. I need to feel better before

it is too late. I am going to the Doctor again next week and need to figure out

what to do.

So please answer this and be honest. I welcome honest and sincere email if you

prefer.

I know we are all different I just want some input so I may make some sort of

sense of it all.

Thank you all for your anticipated reply.

[Guest guest]

You have to have some form of T4/T3 or you will die. Supplements are

not only a waste of time and money for curing hypothyroidism; more

importantly if you use them instead of getting proper treatment then it

is possible that you may cause organ damage that makes recovery a long

and difficult process even after you begin to get proper treatment.

AFAIK there are no studies to support the latter idea; just some

anecdotal evidence that I do not believe has been properly tested. In

any event there is no cure; and your chances of a spontaneous remission

are probably remote.

Proper treatment from the viewpoint of allopathic medicine is T4, which

seems to work well for over 90% of patients. Some small percentage of

patients swear they also need T3 and do much better with something like

Armour. Armour has both T3 and T4, and is " natural " in that it comes

from an animal rather than from a lab. But the T4 molecules in both the

synthetic product and Armour are in fact bioidentical with that produced

by your body. AFAIK none of the credible research conducted has shown

any improvement using Armour over something like Synthroid. I believe

that some tiny percentage of patients do in fact have a T4 to T3

conversion problem or a binding problem that causes them to possibly

actually need the T3, but if so it's in the low single digits at most.

Best of luck,

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> I have tried to solve my Hypothyroidism with supplementations first.

> It worked for awhile but I am not doing well. When I am wrong I admit

> it. My doctor told me what I was taking was fine if it continues to work.

> Now I would like to ask any and all of you please:

> What are you taking, how much and how do you feel?

> Please, I really need your help. I cannot function anymore.

> I cannot experiment anymore I am too old for that. I need to feel

> better before it is too late. I am going to the Doctor again next week

> and need to figure out what to do.

> So please answer this and be honest. I welcome honest and sincere

> email if you prefer.

> I know we are all different I just want some input so I may make some

> sort of sense of it all.

> Thank you all for your anticipated reply.