And so many of us have some kind of challenge. Me? No symptoms, great weight, little adrenal fatigue…who would have known that years on the pill would knock my pituitary out of balance (though that is what synthetic hormones do…) and cause a SECONDARY hypo pattern. Um, secondary?? So while I was running myself into the ground, I just kept depleting my Hypothalamus Pituitary Adrenal and Thyroid Axis for years.

I was finally fortunate to attend a practitioner lecture who might have well been Roberta Flack – killing me softly – telling my life story in front of the whole forum. I sat in amazement as he described my adolescence through young adult, child bearing and where I stood at that moment. And as for auto-immune, it is no longer about the thyroid if you are diagnosed with autoimmune, that’s why the numbers never read…you have to support the immune system. The switch has been flipped, move with it. But logical thinking has no place in big pharma .

You are on it. You have fabulous information. Thank you for your experience and story. I will spread the word. ~j

I only wish I could get support for my stressed adrenals (not gonna happen, sadly). Also, my female hormones are also now depleted, and while I am on bio-identical (not recognized by some pharmacies) progesterone, I could really use some estrogen. We can dream.

Thanks again for speaking up for us.

My mother – little did I know- probably did NOT need open heart surgery for atherosclerosis. She was already taking Armour – but not enough. She was only checked for additional thyroid dysfunction cursorily by the freakin’ TSH baloney test. I argued with her doctor about the AMA’s “statistics” that state a person who is so-called “at risk” should have a cholesterol number at “70″!

I said: “But she did not have a heart attack” Literally I asked her doc if she was crazy – for mentioning such a low number. Mom had atherosclerosis–a condition that USED to be one of the major symptoms for hypothyroidism. So people were treated with dessicated thyroid.

Today these”doctors” want to give out myriad pills and scare us to death with the dangers of “food” especially fat! “Animal fat will kill you!” they say. For more years than I care to remember I watched my fat intake – ate canola oil [something only cars should eat] did not eat cow meat [bless them!] And still I had a high cholesterol and triglyceride reading. Oh yeah, I also had high TSH and probably low FREE T3 and low FREE T4 – but nobody bothered to take those readings. Nobody bothered to check my muscle mass, my tendon reflexes, my very low body temp 92-94 on a good day. Nobody bothered to realize that my extraordinary weight gain of 80 lbs in 6 months might not be from overeating. AND boy would one have to overeat, especially if one remained as active as I once was.

I am angry and am looking for an actual job I can do from my home computer relating to actually helping people with hypothoidism. How long will it be before these “practicing” doctors stop practicing on us!!!?