Comments on: Oops. Let’s not blow this out of proportion! http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/2008/01/11/armour-and-the-fda/ Thyroid Treatment Scandal and Hypothyroid Mistreatment Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:06:44 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Heather Royer http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/2008/01/11/armour-and-the-fda/comment-page-1/#comment-49489 Heather Royer Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:02:24 +0000 http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/2008/01/11/armour-and-the-fda/#comment-49489 I am interested in Gail O'Connell's situation as I too will soon be living in Thailand and concerned about the availability of armour thyroid overseas. I hope you find this message and would love to exchange emails. I am interested in Gail O’Connell’s situation as I too will soon be living in Thailand and concerned about the availability of armour thyroid overseas. I hope you find this message and would love to exchange emails.

]]> By: SRP http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/2008/01/11/armour-and-the-fda/comment-page-1/#comment-49172 SRP Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:18:46 +0000 http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/2008/01/11/armour-and-the-fda/#comment-49172 this is not a rumour ... my doctor says there is none to be found. my doctor is THE armour thyroid doctor in central florida ... it sure seems like he would know if there were some place to get it. i have had to take compounded synthetic for three months now and i am totally disabled by it. it's a nightmare ... i lost all the ground i had gained being on the armour ... i can't function. i'm going to call the lab in AZ and see what they say. i know these posts are old but it's worth a shot. this is not a rumour … my doctor says there is none to be found. my doctor is THE armour thyroid doctor in central florida … it sure seems like he would know if there were some place to get it. i have had to take compounded synthetic for three months now and i am totally disabled by it. it’s a nightmare … i lost all the ground i had gained being on the armour … i can’t function. i’m going to call the lab in AZ and see what they say. i know these posts are old but it’s worth a shot.

]]> By: CC in Tucson http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/2008/01/11/armour-and-the-fda/comment-page-1/#comment-43882 CC in Tucson Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:25:39 +0000 http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/2008/01/11/armour-and-the-fda/#comment-43882 This is for Laura Rucinsky! (and others) Try Prescription Lab in Tucson, AZ (520) 886-1035 They can compound any strength for you if you have a prescription from a doctor. Good luck! This is for Laura Rucinsky! (and others)
Try Prescription Lab in Tucson, AZ (520) 886-1035
They can compound any strength for you if you have a prescription from a doctor. Good luck!

]]> By: Jen M http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/2008/01/11/armour-and-the-fda/comment-page-1/#comment-43499 Jen M Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:27:30 +0000 http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/2008/01/11/armour-and-the-fda/#comment-43499 (From Janie: Hi Jen. They haven't taken it away. It's all on backorder, and we know that some is trickling back into pharmacy shelves...) Had to call 20 stores to find Armour. I took the last of what they had. Interesting information I received with my medication. The paper that comes with your RX explaining it's uses etc... In capital letters it said "NO COMMON SIDE EFFECTS HAVE BEEN REPORTED" For as long as this medicine has been around, How on earth can they just take it away like this? It's all about the FDA and the Governments wanting to make money and directing us towards another drug that they will make a profit on. Wake up people it is another control issue with the government. Shame on them for taking our lives in their hands as they do with everything. YOU KNOW THEY WOULD NEVER DO THIS WITH PAIN MEDICINE OR WITH VIAGRA...... Laura Rusinsky, I hope you have found some Armour!!! I'm so sorry you are going through this and I know it will be soon I will be dealing with the same!!! I really hope you are OK!! Makes me furious!!!! Try the Canadian Pharmacies if you can.Just keep calling every pharmacy you can! Check out this article: http://www.emord.com/events/speeches/fda_violation.htm (From Janie: Hi Jen. They haven’t taken it away. It’s all on backorder, and we know that some is trickling back into pharmacy shelves…)

Had to call 20 stores to find Armour. I took the last of what they had. Interesting information I received with my
medication. The paper that comes with your RX explaining it’s uses etc… In capital letters it said “NO COMMON SIDE EFFECTS HAVE BEEN REPORTED” For as long as this medicine has been around, How on earth can they just take it away like this? It’s all about the FDA and the Governments wanting to make money and directing us towards another drug that they will make a profit on. Wake up people it is another control issue with the government. Shame on them for taking our lives in their hands as they do with everything. YOU KNOW THEY WOULD NEVER DO THIS WITH PAIN MEDICINE OR WITH VIAGRA……
Laura Rusinsky, I hope you have found some Armour!!! I’m so sorry you are going through this and I know it will be soon I will be dealing with the same!!! I really hope you are OK!! Makes me furious!!!! Try the Canadian Pharmacies if you can.Just keep calling every pharmacy you can!
Check out this article:
http://www.emord.com/events/speeches/fda_violation.htm

]]> By: Jill T http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/2008/01/11/armour-and-the-fda/comment-page-1/#comment-42883 Jill T Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:38:08 +0000 http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/2008/01/11/armour-and-the-fda/#comment-42883 I just got off the phone with a Medco Pharmacist who confirmed why I have not been able to find Armour at any of my local pharmacies. Armour manufacturer Forest has stopped producing the drug in the wake of the FDA "reviewing the effectiveness" of Armour. No Armour in southern Silicon Valley. I just got off the phone with a Medco Pharmacist who confirmed why I have not been able to find Armour at any of my local pharmacies. Armour manufacturer Forest has stopped producing the drug in the wake of the FDA “reviewing the effectiveness” of Armour. No Armour in southern Silicon Valley.

]]> By: Laura Rucinsky http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/2008/01/11/armour-and-the-fda/comment-page-1/#comment-42739 Laura Rucinsky Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:14:50 +0000 http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/2008/01/11/armour-and-the-fda/#comment-42739 (Laura, go here: http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/options-for-thyroid-treatment) I have been out of my thyroid medication for seven days now. My hair is falling out, I am irritable, shaky, have brain fog, no energy and feel like crap. I have been on several medications for hypothyroidism. All of the medications gave me the runs--to the bathroom. I was put on Amour Thyroid about a year ago and my life was back to normal. Now, I'm sick all over again. I've called and been to every pharmacy in town. No one has this medication and the pharmacies tell me the same thing. It has been taken off the market and is not going to be available again. Levoxyl and synthroid do not help me and I cannot function, for running to the bathroom. Someone, please help me. (Laura, go here: http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/options-for-thyroid-treatment)

I have been out of my thyroid medication for seven days now. My hair is falling out, I am irritable, shaky, have brain fog, no energy and feel like crap. I have been on several medications for hypothyroidism. All of the medications gave me the runs–to the bathroom. I was put on Amour Thyroid about a year ago and my life was back to normal. Now, I’m sick all over again. I’ve called and been to every pharmacy in town. No one has this medication and the pharmacies tell me the same thing. It has been taken off the market and is not going to be available again. Levoxyl and synthroid do not help me and I cannot function, for running to the bathroom. Someone, please help me.

]]> By: Judy Spangler http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/2008/01/11/armour-and-the-fda/comment-page-1/#comment-41786 Judy Spangler Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:58:42 +0000 http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/2008/01/11/armour-and-the-fda/#comment-41786 I just received a call from Medco advising that all "Natural" thyroid manufacturing has stopped, but wouldn't/couldn't tell me why. This wasn't just Armour it was ALL manufacturers. So, what is going on........ I just received a call from Medco advising that all “Natural” thyroid manufacturing has stopped, but wouldn’t/couldn’t tell me why.
This wasn’t just Armour it was ALL manufacturers.
So, what is going on……..

]]> By: gina http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/2008/01/11/armour-and-the-fda/comment-page-1/#comment-40355 gina Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:27:39 +0000 http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/2008/01/11/armour-and-the-fda/#comment-40355 Janie, both the links in your post are dead. (Stupid FDA; that info should NOT just disappear!) Janie, both the links in your post are dead. (Stupid FDA; that info should NOT just disappear!)

]]> By: Wynnell Nowell http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/2008/01/11/armour-and-the-fda/comment-page-1/#comment-38047 Wynnell Nowell Thu, 21 May 2009 00:47:03 +0000 http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/2008/01/11/armour-and-the-fda/#comment-38047 I am a Senior Citizen on Medicare and a Scott & White (a Hospital,& Clinic major System in Central Texas) Health Plan for a supplement (HMO, I presume?). They have just denied me the Armour as it is not on their list of FDA approved meds. I have gone through the Free Meds as advertised (by Montel Williams on T.V. for a long time now) and am hoping (after having sent my $10.00 fee for enrollment, any age--one time fee for as long as you need the med--any or all one needs) if you make under $42,000 per year for an individual. When approved---soon as possible I hope--I will be sent the meds via my my endo- I only learned this news less than two weeks ago and I am almost out. They sent a letter --snail mail- that I was not going to be allowed but the one prescption on May 1 and no more-period. I will be out completely June 1st and since I have had my complete thyroid gland removed (Cancer), I was deeply disturbed as Armour has been so great for me. So what about this? I am a Senior Citizen on Medicare and a Scott & White (a Hospital,& Clinic major System in Central Texas) Health Plan for a supplement (HMO, I presume?). They have just denied me the Armour as it is not on their list of FDA approved meds. I have gone through the Free Meds as advertised (by Montel Williams on T.V. for a long time now) and am hoping (after having sent my $10.00 fee for enrollment, any age–one time fee for as long as you need the med–any or all one needs) if you make under $42,000 per year for an individual. When approved—soon as possible I hope–I will be sent the meds via my my endo- I only learned this news less than two weeks ago and I am almost out. They sent a letter –snail mail- that I was not going to be allowed but the one prescption on May 1 and no more-period. I will be out completely June 1st and since I have had my complete thyroid gland removed (Cancer), I was deeply disturbed as Armour has been so great for me. So what about this?

]]> By: Kathryn http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/2008/01/11/armour-and-the-fda/comment-page-1/#comment-26803 Kathryn Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:08:29 +0000 http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/2008/01/11/armour-and-the-fda/#comment-26803 For the last several months, my pharmacist never has a month's supply of 120 Armour thyroid for me. He always "owes" me a dozen or more pills - he says not too many people use it much anymore and he can't seem to keep it. Yesterday, 10/1/08, I went to claim the amount he owed me, thinking that surely he'd gotten it in in the past 3 weeks. He didn't have my dosage, but was able to give me a lesser dosage and instructed me on how many to take to equal it out. He also said that it appeared Armour was going to be phased out, that it was a natural thyroid medication and the demand was so low that the manufactures were going to quit making it! This was the first I'd heard of this until I got on the web tonight! For the record, I started out on Synthroid years ago for awhile, and I do so much better on the Armour. I certainly hope they don't quit manufacturing it. But I can't figure out why he has so much trouble getting it for me. For the last several months, my pharmacist never has a month’s supply of 120 Armour thyroid for me. He always “owes” me a dozen or more pills – he says not too many people use it much anymore and he can’t seem to keep it. Yesterday, 10/1/08, I went to claim the amount he owed me, thinking that surely he’d gotten it in in the past 3 weeks. He didn’t have my dosage, but was able to give me a lesser dosage and instructed me on how many to take to equal it out. He also said that it appeared Armour was going to be phased out, that it was a natural thyroid medication and the demand was so low that the manufactures were going to quit making it! This was the first I’d heard of this until I got on the web tonight! For the record, I started out on Synthroid years ago for awhile, and I do so much better on the Armour. I certainly hope they don’t quit manufacturing it. But I can’t figure out why he has so much trouble getting it for me.

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