Comments on: The FDA is improving T4’s potency….but it won’t change one particular FACT… http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/2007/10/03/fda/ Not just another Thyroid site Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:00:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: libby http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/2007/10/03/fda/#comment-17746 libby Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:00:17 +0000 http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/2007/10/03/fda/#comment-17746 I started taking medicine for my thyroid in 7th grade. I am now 46 I too have tried every anti-depressant under the sun and felt hopeless, agoraphobic....how to explain to your husband and child what you can't even figure out. Since staring so young, I have been on automatic pilot.. bloodwork every 6 months, and taking whatever was prescribed. I found your site and it all made sense. I called my dr. and he called in armour for me I am due to go in for a re-check and have an appointment in March with an endocrinologist...I can definitely tell a difference. Still have some symptoms, but not a feeling of being completely overwhelmed by the little things in life, and less clouded thinking, and concentration. Am considering a complete switch to armour. I started taking medicine for my thyroid in 7th grade. I am now 46 I too have tried every anti-depressant under the sun and felt hopeless, agoraphobic….how to explain to your husband and child what you can’t even figure out. Since staring so young, I have been on automatic pilot.. bloodwork every 6 months, and taking whatever was prescribed. I found your site and it all made sense. I called my dr. and he called in armour for me I am due to go in for a re-check and have an appointment in March with an endocrinologist…I can definitely tell a difference. Still have some symptoms, but not a feeling of being completely overwhelmed by the little things in life, and less clouded thinking, and concentration. Am considering a complete switch to armour.

]]> By: aprillv68 http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/2007/10/03/fda/#comment-15587 aprillv68 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:08:05 +0000 http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/2007/10/03/fda/#comment-15587 OH what the FDA, and Dr's,would or wouldnt do just to keep making a buck As a nurse working in a nursing home there's not very much i can say to our staff dr's for i'll lose my job. Right now i am observing a resident with a very high TSH, needless to say QUITE hypo, on a low dose of Synthroid, when i reported this to one of the dr's on staff guess what she said? "Repeat TSH in 6 weeks." I just wanted to strangle her. OH what the FDA, and Dr’s,would or wouldnt do just to keep making a buck

As a nurse working in a nursing home there’s not very much i can say to our staff dr’s for i’ll lose my job. Right now i am observing a resident with a very high TSH, needless to say QUITE hypo, on a low dose of Synthroid, when i reported this to one of the dr’s on staff guess what she said? “Repeat TSH in 6 weeks.” I just wanted to strangle her.

]]> By: Trish http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/2007/10/03/fda/#comment-15319 Trish Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:00:53 +0000 http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/2007/10/03/fda/#comment-15319 Janie, Our stories are the same, only the names change. I am on Armour and feel much better. It is still a constant struggle to convince the MD's to look at symptoms instead of a antiquated TSH test. MD's still feel I will go hyper if I am out of a certain range even though I do not experience any of the symptoms and only feel more human. What will it take. I know so many thyroid patients that suffer, I think, needlessly. Janie,

Our stories are the same, only the names change. I am on Armour and feel much better. It is still a constant struggle to convince the MD’s to look at symptoms instead of a antiquated TSH test. MD’s still feel I will go hyper if I am out of a certain range even though I do not experience any of the symptoms and only feel more human. What will it take. I know so many thyroid patients that suffer, I think, needlessly.

]]> By: Nancy Greene http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/2007/10/03/fda/#comment-15164 Nancy Greene Sat, 06 Oct 2007 21:32:58 +0000 http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/2007/10/03/fda/#comment-15164 Janie, Thanks for your input on this Thyroid stuff that is so important to feeling human again. I started Armour some time ago & am so glad I did. Thanks again. Nancy Janie, Thanks for your input on this Thyroid stuff that is so important to feeling human again. I started Armour some time ago & am so glad I did. Thanks again. Nancy

]]> By: bonnie http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/2007/10/03/fda/#comment-15094 bonnie Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:46:54 +0000 http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/2007/10/03/fda/#comment-15094 I bet cardboard wouldn't produce the terrible side effects of $yncrap. :) I experienced migraines, chest pains, panicky feelings...all of which went away on Armour. I don't think any other drug in history has been as useless yet as relentlessly pushed on the consumer as synthetic T-4! I bet cardboard wouldn’t produce the terrible side effects of $yncrap. :) I experienced migraines, chest pains, panicky feelings…all of which went away on Armour. I don’t think any other drug in history has been as useless yet as relentlessly pushed on the consumer as synthetic T-4!

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