February 25, 2006

Some­ti­mes when you think you’ve heard it all, you find out – you haven’t.

There are a plethera of puny and par­ti­cu­larly piti­ful excu­ses that doc­tors give for not presc­ri­bing Armour:

1) It only works for a few
2) It’s unre­lia­ble
3) It’s dan­ge­rous
4) It’s not con­sis­tent from dose to dose
5) It’s out­da­ted
6) It’s not accep­ted as a medi­cal stan­dard of prac­tice
7) It’s unregulated

And now.…TAH-DAHH…#8: It’s not “mains­tream”. Yup, that was said to a friend of mine this week who visi­ted her doc­tor. It was their excuse for not presc­ri­bing Armour at that clinic.

Well gee.…..this medi­ca­tion that is “unre­lia­ble, dan­ge­rous, incon­sis­tent from dose-to-dose, out­da­ted, not the medi­cal stan­dard of prac­tice, unre­gu­la­ted and not mains­tream”.…is saving and enhan­cing the lives of THOUSANDS of patients who have cho­sen to ignore your nega­tive and brain­less pronouncements.

Armour works. Get over it.

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6 Responses to “I haven’t heard it all after all!”

  1. Sandra said:

    Feb 26, 06 at 12:00 am

    Thank you for your site. I have been on Armour since 4/05 & feel so much bet­ter. Still have hair loss & brea­kage & would love to get that under con­trol  — maybe it takes a long time? Any advice for the hair loss pro­blem? I’m taking 4 grains in the mor­ning orally & am con­tem­pla­ting taking them in multi doses throughout the day ins­tead. Any suggestions??

    Thanks a million!

    San­dra

  2. Janie said:

    Feb 26, 06 at 12:10 am

    Hi. You know, those are good ques­tions and I have defi­nite ans­wers. :) But, I’m trying to get folks to use the Forums for ques­tions and ans­wers, and just leave the blog for com­ments. So, could I get you to ask those same ques­tions over there?? Thanks!

  3. John Dommisse MD said:

    Jul 11, 06 at 6:43 pm

    The T3 frac­tion of Armour Thy­roid is rather short-acting (8 hrs on an empty sto­mach; 12 hrs after a meal), so it should ideally be taken every 8 or 12 hours for the T3 level to be opti­mal thruout the 24 hrs of every day.

    There is a way to make the 3 main blood tests — TSH, Dialy­sis Free-T4 and –T3 — work for diag­no­sing, regu­la­ting and moni­to­ring the various types and gra­des of hypothy­roi­dism and their treat­ment OPTIMALLY, 24 hrs/ day. Going by the TSH-alone is like expec­ting one leg of a tri­pod to do the job of a tri­pod on its own.

    I do phone con­sul­ta­tion to peo­ple in every state, and even in seve­ral foreign coun­tries. That way, at least the blood tests and presc­rip­tions can be paid by health insurance.

    Best wishes to all of you (and con­gra­tu­la­tions for over­co­ming your vic­tim sta­tus on your own!),

    John ‘Domm’ MD

  4. Administrator said:

    Jul 11, 06 at 7:35 pm

    Yesi­rree, John, we’ve had no choice but to do this on our own in the face of a race of zom­bie doc­tors who put us on lousy Thyroxine-only treat­ment, who ignore obvious con­ti­nuing hypothy­roid symp­toms, ban­daid them with all sorts of medi­ca­tions like anti-depressants and sta­tins, make ink marks prin­ted on a piece of paper ABOVE AND BEYOND our obvious symp­toms, and com­pare the effects of Armour treat­ment to being on Heroin.….or a pla­cebo effect.

    And I am wai­ting to hear from you WHY you recom­men­ded that your patients also had a free T4 towards the top quar­ter of the range, as would be the free T3. What is the bio­lo­gi­cal and func­tio­nal sig­ni­fi­cance of having that free T4 up there as well? You can res­pond here or use the Con­tact Me page. Janie

  5. John Dommisse MD said:

    Jul 13, 06 at 5:34 pm

    I had to res­pond to you by email, Janie, as I couldn’t reach this 2nd page of the blog before. Could you please post it here for me? Now I can reach the 2nd page by clic­king on “4 com­ments”, but not when I tried to go to “second page”.

  6. Administrator said:

    Jul 13, 06 at 8:35 pm

    The follo­wing was sent to me by John Dom­misse MD. con­cer­ning why to raise the free T4 as well as the free T3. Thank you Dr. Dommisse!:

    The rea­son why it is best to opti­mize the Dialy­sis Free-T4 — the only accu­rate test for it — as well as the DFT3 level, is because the brain seems to need to receive thy­roid hor­mone in the form of T4 as well as T3, and then con­verts T4 to T3 INSIDE the brain cells. e.g., Patients on the so-called Wilson’s T3-only approach get good relief of phy­si­cal symp­toms but retain their brain fog, memory loss, con­cen­tra­tion pro­blems, etc.. The other rea­son is it is a good idea to have your
    “reserve” of thy­roid hor­mone, which is the T4, as high as pos­si­ble as long as that is without any adverse effects — so that, if you miss a dose of T3-containing pre­pa­ra­tion, you can pos­sibly con­vert T4 more rea­dily to T3 than if the T4 level is not as optimal.

    If I had to choose bet­ween a high-normal DFT3 level with a mid-range DFT4 level, on the one hand, vs. a high-normal DFT4 level and a
    mid-range DFT3 level, on the other, I would choose the first sce­na­rio, above. But, since I have the abi­lity to opti­mize BOTH levels, that is what I pre­fer MOST.

    Armour and other Thy­roids, con­tain the ratio of T4 to T3 that the PIG thy­roid gland puts out (4:1) — which is per­fect for humans who have secon­dary (pitui­tary), ter­tiary (hypotha­la­mic) and/or
    Non-thyroidal-illness hypothy­roi­dism, with or without some pri­mary hypothy­roi­dism. These other forms of hypothy­roi­dism run much lower T3 levels than T4 levels, so the pig thy­roid turns out to be just right for some of them.

    Purely-Primary hypothy­roi­dism patients, whose T3 level tends to run higher than their T4 level, can some­ti­mes do fine on T4-only, but they are in a dis­tinct mino­rity, <10% of all hypothy­roid patients that I see. A lar­ger mino­rity, maybe 20 – 30% do fine on just Armour/ Thyroid/Thyrolar. But, if you keep DFT3 levels cons­tant thruout the 24 hrs of every day, you will find that the only way to opti­mize BOTH the DFT4 and DFT3 levels is to use some com­bi­na­tion of T4 and Armour/Thyrolar, or some com­bi­na­tion of T4 daily and Com­poun­ded T3/ Cyto­mel 2-3X/d. Since I am vir­tually the only phy­si­cian using a combo of thy­roid pre­pa­ra­tions — which is neces­sary to opti­mize both levels — this tells me that MOST hypothy­roid patients under the care of other phy­si­cians never opti­mize both their DFT4 and DFT3 levels!!

    Best wishes,
    John ‘Domm’ MD
    http://www.JohnDommisseMD.com

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