If you think this website is informative, wait til you see the book version, called STOP THE THYROID MADNESS: A Patient Revolution Against Decades of Inferior Thyroid Treatment.
It contains most everything you will find on this site, plus a whole lot more, including a chapter on T3, historical information on desiccated thyroid as well as T4, an entire chapter on the TSH (Thyroid Stimulating Hooey), how to interpret your cortisol labs, and more!
You can order the book from the publishing website here:
www.laughinggrapepublishing.com
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Welcome to this patient-to-patient informational website, where the message is now loud and clear: STOP THE THYROID MADNESS!!
For decades, we, as hypothyroid patients have unwittingly become victims to a thyroid treatment madness that leaves us with lingering hypothyroid symptoms…all while being told we are “normal” or “optimally treated”.
This madness has occurred to those with obvious hypothyroid symptoms, yet no diagnosis, due to the lousy lab work called the TSH. Or, the madness occurs for those already on treatment medications.
That treatment involves a medication called thyroxine or T4-only (aka Synthroid, Levoxyl, Unithroid, Levothyroxine, Eltroxin, etc). Additionally, our situation is made worse when we are HELD HOSTAGE to a lab called the TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone) with it’s erroneous and dubious “normal” range. Patients note that when in that “normal” range, they continue to have symptoms.
The results: patients suffer from those lingering hypothyroid symptoms no matter how high they raise the T4 medications. Those lingering symptoms can include, but are not limited to, chronic low-grade depression, poor stamina compared to others, low energy levels, dry hair, dry skin, hard or small stools, high cholesterol, brain fog, digestive problems, chronic illness, other mental health issues…the list is long and pathetic.
Now, there is a HUGE and GROWING body of thyroid patients, and some wise, caring and open-minded doctors, who have discovered a FAR superior treatment with natural desiccated thyroid hormones, more commonly known by the brand name Armour, as well as Naturethroid and others. Additionally, we are dosing according to the elimination of SYMPTOMS, and paying attention to the free T3 and free T4, NOT the TSH. And it’s working!
As thyroid patients, we have learned treatment protocols that work, as well as other issues which may need treatment, such as our adrenals! Our hope is that you, as a patient, can carry this information into your doctor’s office and press for change in your treatment.
T4-only meds do NOT do the job, any more than an elevator which only rises to the fifth floor of a 50-story building “does the job.” Sure, you may feel slightly better, and notice some results, but you are STILL left with symptoms due to inadequate treatment.
And many doctors, who tend to be cattle in the chutes of their medical school training, need to rethink the POOR treatment they are bestowing on their thyroid patients!!
You can even make spurious claims against the efficacy, stability and reliability of desiccated thyroid like Armour. BUT NONE OF IT is more important and revealing than the REAL LIFE EXPERIENCES of lives profoundly changed due to desiccated natural thyroid hormones, as well as dosing by symptom elimination first and foremost, NOT black ink marks on a piece of paper called the TSH lab result!
NOTE: this website will frequently use the name “Armour” just for simplicities sake, but there are other fine and excellent desiccated thyroid products.
STOP THE THYROID MADNESS!!! It’s not working! It never has!! It still doesn’t!!
Listen to the interview about STTM on Hot Flash Free!
SPREAD THE WORD! Order a t-shirt or tongue-in-cheek bumper stickers HERE. YOU are a part of this thyroid patient revolution, and our power lies in letting others know!
