February 20, 2009

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And right on the heels of my post below, I want to inform ever­yone of a REAL LIFE HORROR STORY that is hap­pe­ning to Sheila Tur­ner of the UK right now. Sheila is a thy­roid patient advo­cate who crea­ted the UK Thy­roid Patient Advo­cacy web­site here.

Sheila will tell anyone who asks that she was very ill while taking levothy­ro­xine (125 mcgs) only the­rapy, being wrac­ked with back pain so severe she was una­ble to get out of her armchair, bed or car after sitting/laying down for a while.  She also suf­fe­red from debi­li­ta­ting ‘brain fog’ and short term memory, along with the usual lin­ge­ring hypothy­roid symp­toms while on thyroxine.

Sheila sta­tes: I couldn’t tole­rate levothy­ro­xine alone because it was found I was not con­ver­ting this mainly inac­tive hor­mone to the active hor­mone T3.  As my musc­les and tis­sues were not get­ting the T3 requi­red, my musc­les in my back were going into spasm, cau­sing the severe pain. 

She then saw a pri­vate hor­mone spe­cia­list who star­ted her on natu­ral thy­roid extract (Armour Thy­roid, USP) and she regai­ned her full health! It was so pro­found that she star­ted the TPA-UK in 2004 to cam­paign for a bet­ter diag­nos­tic and treat­ment pro­to­col within the Natio­nal Health Sys­tem (NHS). (UK has socia­li­zed medicine.)

Fast foward to 2009.  As I wrote about below in my Feb. 14th blog post,  the UK Royal College of Phy­si­cians along with seve­ral sup­por­ting orga­ni­za­tions recently brought out their pathe­tic and narrrow-minded new gui­de­li­nes on the diag­no­sing and treat­ment of pri­mary hypothy­roi­dism.  And lo and behold, Sheila, along with about 15 other patients on Armour via the same medi­cal con­sul­tant,  have had their Armour removed. 

Says Sheila:  He and every NHS endoc­ri­no­lo­gist has been sent a let­ter from the Pre­si­dent of the Royal College of Phy­si­cians, telling them they should use thy­ro­xine ONLY as a treat­ment for pri­mary hypothy­roi­dism and that they should not recom­mend or presc­ribe Armour Thy­roid and that only acc­re­di­ted endoc­ri­no­lo­gists should ever recom­mend T3 as this was rarely indicated.

Sheila has been for­ced to return to the synthe­tic treat­ment of levothy­ro­xine (100 mcgs) and to it has been added 20 mcg liothy­ro­nine (T3) split twice a day. But there’s no gua­ran­tee she will be able to stay on the T3. Addi­tio­nally, don’t be foo­led into thin­king that a combo of synthe­tic T4 and synthe­tic T3 is as good as Armour. Patients all around the world who have tried it, then switched to Armour, report far bet­ter results with the latter.

Says Sheila in a com­ple­tely shoc­ked state:  I can­not believe this is hap­pe­ning — I tried to ques­tion him as to the rea­son all the NHS endoc­ri­no­lo­gists didn’t demand the BTA pro­duce MEDICAL EVIDENCE to show that hypothy­roid suf­fe­rers ONLY ever nee­ded T4 — he said he knew they should have pro­du­ced evi­dence, but it seems because it has come from the RCP, his and every­body else’s’ hands were tied — they have to be seen to be doing what they are told. I got the dis­tinct impres­sion that if any­body roc­ked the boat, they would be next doc­tor arraig­ned before the GMC.

Making this real life horror story even more shoc­king, her medi­cal con­sul­tant explai­ned that the only way to find the truth as to whether Armour was a bet­ter medi­ca­tion or not was through cli­ni­cal trials using Armour ver­sus levothy­ro­xine.  (i.e. patient expe­rience all over the world revea­ling it works isn’t enough evi­dence. Give me a break). But when she pres­sed him into star­ting this, he said they would need the bac­king of their thy­roid asso­cia­tion — yes, the Bri­tish Thy­roid Asso­cia­tion (BTA), the very group that has said that a TSH of 10 is bor­der­line hypo. (See my Nov. 7th post)

Sheila con­ti­nues: I told him they would never agree to this, and he agreed also. I told him that we did NOT NEED the Bri­tish Thy­roid Asso­cia­tion to get ethi­cal appro­val — and surely he could get a group of like-minded prac­ti­tio­ners around him and do this them­sel­ves — but it would cost a great deal of money — and, again, if you are a mem­ber of BTA (and I believe most endoc­ri­no­lo­gists are) then they daren’t do a thing without their approval.

At the moment, Sheila will tell you with sad­ness and shock that it all seems rather surreal at the moment. She is sca­red for every suf­fe­rer of this disease to be for­ced into taking only one thy­roid hor­mone — a synthe­tic sto­rage hor­mone. She is  sca­red for her­self, too.

Sheila expounds: I just sin­ce­rely hope that I can cope with the change-over to synthe­tics and that Armour has made my body strong enough to do this. I will make abso­lu­tely sure that my adre­nals can cope with this. I feel SO VERY sorry for all of those suf­fe­rers who are being left in the care of a head in the sand endo­prat , who will refuse to even give them the correct thy­roid hor­mone their body needs.  Once again — THE NHS IS KILLING US!

This is pro­foundly sic­ke­ning and shocking.

If you are so moved,  send this blog post (www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/blog) to anyone and ever­yone.  Send it to your news­pa­per, your radio,  talk shows, your friends, rela­ti­ves, anywhere.   This should NOT go unheard of by others. We need to tell the world about this tra­vesty.  Speak your mind about this by adding a comment.

Update: you can read Sheila’s and UK-TPA’s res­ponse here: http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/uk-tpas-response-to-the-rcp/

More from Sheila that gives UK patients hope: http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/relationship-between-the-RCP-and-MHRA/

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22 Responses to “The UK is now taking Armour away from patients!!”

  1. Taina Ketola said:

    Feb 20, 09 at 6:24 pm

    This is a terri­ble situa­tion. A medi­cal revolt is nee­ded. If we do not have health free­dom we do not have free­dom at all. Pha­ram­ceu­ti­cal com­pa­nies are con­tro­lling or attemt­ping to con­trol the medi­cal esta­blish­ment all over the world. Any logi­cally min­ded indi­vi­dual who exa­mi­nes the facts can clearly see that the natu­ral thy­roid pro­ducts are far supe­rior and the only truly effec­tive way to treat hypothyroidism.

  2. Darla said:

    Feb 20, 09 at 7:41 pm

    How can they take such a life giving drug away from the peo­ple that need it the most. This is criminal.

    I was so terribly ill on T4 only drugs. Armour gave me my brain, my mobi­lity and my live­lihood back. 

    This trou­bles me deeply. How will peo­ple like me, and there are many, be able to func­tion? I cer­tainly wasn’t before Armour.

  3. Joel L. Watson said:

    Feb 20, 09 at 7:48 pm

    I live in the U.S. and I used to have a somewhat indif­fe­rent atti­tude con­cer­ning whether our country even­tually adopts socia­li­zed medi­cine. After rea­ding this post, I am defi­ni­tely AGAINST it. I will not take anything but Armour for my hypothy­roi­dism. If I were Sheila I think I would have to break the law and import Armour from another country. This is a fine exam­ple of what hap­pens when govern­ment gets too big. Good luck to Sheila and others whose health is being held hos­tage by their own govern­ment — in the name of progress!

  4. Mandy Waggott said:

    Feb 20, 09 at 9:04 pm

    Shoc­king but yet not supri­sing if that makes sense ?
    After watching my mother suf­fer Myxe­dema due to end­less mis-diagnosis by our local NHS GP’s, and then being diag­no­sed myself of hypothy­roi­dism, (thanks to mum), we’ve spent the last year trying to get our gp’s to presc­ribe Armour after actually buying some on the inter­net because we were so sick of having half a life! and the gp’s never lis­te­ning to how we felt. Obviously after taking it, we felt ama­zing, there was no going back to levo. Mum had to be refe­rred to an endo to keep trying to get Armour presc­ri­bed, but was put back on levo with a sup­ple­ment of T3 just like sheila, unfor­tu­na­tely the ine­vi­ta­ble hap­pe­ned and mum felt worse than ever, even her appea­rance chan­ged and collea­gues from work noti­ced she wasn’t her­self at all.
    She kept telling me it was hope­fully a means to an end, in order to get Armour presc­ri­bed. She asked for adre­nals to be tes­ted also, they told her results were fine for them and offe­red no sup­por­ting meds.
    At the end of it all, the endo wouldn’t enter­tain the use of Armour and so neither would her GP, she was made to feel ill again for nothing!
    All I can say is, good luck Sheila„ I really feel for you and so does my mum. We still buy our Armour from the inter­net while our finan­cial situa­tion still lets us, but it’s not cheap. But it’s a small price to pay for being able to live a full life, at least that’s how we see it.
    Their has recently been a shor­tage of Armour avai­la­ble to buy from repu­ta­ble inter­net phar­ma­cies, doesn’t this tell these idiots something???????
    Where are the celebs that have this disease, why can’t they help us to get this mes­sage out there? Or help fun­draise to get these tests done? Someone must be able to do something, maybe a widely publi­ci­sed site spe­ci­fi­cally for a peti­tion, no blogs, info etc, just simply to sign? I know of 8 suf­fe­rers alone just in my family, there are thou­sands of us in the UK so what can we do ?????
    From a very angry, frus­tra­ted hypothy­roid sufferer!

  5. Dominica said:

    Feb 20, 09 at 9:39 pm

    This is pretty ridi­cu­lous. I am con­si­de­ring moving to the UK for work rea­sons and there is no way I will regis­ter with the NHS. We are still “allo­wed” to take natu­ral thy­roid here in Aus­tra­lia, the socia­li­sed medi­cal sys­tem here works dif­fe­rently to the NHS and doc­tors are allo­wed to presc­ribe wha­te­ver is legal and appro­priate which if you find the right doc­tor, may inc­lude des­si­ca­ted thy­roid pre­pa­ra­tions. I will have to main­tain a rela­tionship with my Aus­tra­lian doc­tor and have presc­rip­tions made up and sent to me!! How utterly stupid.

    I feel very very sorry for all the hypothy­roid patients in the UK now left without a choice. Dia­be­tes patients can still use bovine or por­cine insu­lin if they find it works for them…what the hell is wrong that por­cine thy­roid is con­si­de­red essen­tially Evil in tablet form.

  6. Sheila Turner said:

    Feb 21, 09 at 12:27 am

    I am still ree­ling — and everything around me right now feels surreal. I get up each mor­ning not belie­ving this has hap­pe­ned. It was a miracle when, over 5 years ago I regai­ned my nor­mal health so dra­ma­ti­cally after being so ill on T4 only, and I still call Armour my ‘miracle pill’ because this is what it is. Because I wan­ted to get the word out to all suf­fe­rers of this DD, I ope­ned Thy­roid Patient Advo­cacy with the sole aim of cam­paig­ning for a bet­ter diag­nos­tic and treat­ment pro­to­col within the NHS as I didn’t want any­body else to have to suf­fer the way I did. I wor­ked so hard to get ALL the facts about natu­ral desic­ca­ted thy­roid to give to all UK doc­tors as they are still being given inco­rrect infor­ma­tion and are told Armour and T3 are dan­ge­rous. It is the pro­fes­sors who run Bri­tish thy­roid Asso­cia­tion who are dan­ge­rous — they don’t give a damn. All they care about are the exoc­tic loca­tions they are sent to throughout the world to hold their con­ven­tions plus all the other won­der­ful perks Big Pharma pro­vide for them — so long as they keep levothy­ro­xine right at the top of the mar­ket (not for­get­ting sta­tins of course).

    I have read (and seen) too many horror sto­ries of suf­fers who have been for­ced, for one rea­son or another, to stop their Armour and go back onto the synthe­tics and many simply have not made it. Many of the symp­toms return, inc­lu­ding brain fog — and I need my brain. I have deci­ded that I will have to buy Armour from the US and keep my health. My hus­band is hypothy­roid, diag­no­sed by Dr Peat­field with a TSH of 5.8. The NHS refu­sed to treat him, (saying his TSH was nor­mal) so we buy Armour for him from the US. He is on 4 grains. I am on 3 grains, so bet­ween us (and we are pen­sio­ners) we need 7 grains of Armour daily. 

    Why is it that the RCP, BTA et al. believe that levothy­ro­xine works for every sin­gle one of us? Why is it that TPA-UK forum recei­ves over 2500 mes­sa­ges a month from des­pe­rate suf­fe­rers trying to find a rea­son for their con­ti­nuing ill health outside of the NHS? Why is it that tens of thou­sands in the UK (pro­bably millions world wide) are being left without a diag­no­sis and the­re­fore given no treat­ment because their blood results have shown to be in the nor­mal range — when that ‘nor­mal’ TSH range in the UK is 0.5 to 10.0? 

    I can and will con­ti­nue to fight for the cause — but after my expe­rience this week with an endoc­ri­no­lo­gist I loved and trus­ted and who has let his patients and myself down so badly, I won­der where all this will end up. 

    God help us all!

  7. B said:

    Feb 21, 09 at 3:26 am

    Frankly, this doesn’t sur­prise me. Somehow it see­med too good to be true that the NHS were finally recog­ni­sing natu­ral thy­roid as a legi­ti­mate and mas­si­vely bene­fi­cial alter­na­tive to thyroxine.

    My expe­rience with the NHS has been con­sis­tently frus­tra­ting. Their stub­born adhe­rence to blood test results meant that I got inc­re­dibly ill, and when after finally get­ting a diag­no­sis and being put on thy­ro­xine I con­ti­nued to be unwell they refu­sed to accept that it was my thy­roid since it was being “trea­ted”, offe­ring me anti-depressants and refe­rring me (point­lessly) to an ME con­sul­tant. By last sum­mer I was near collapse and went in des­pe­ra­tion to a pri­vate con­sul­tant who told me that my adre­nals were in a state of near total exhaus­tion (I’d never heard of this pro­blem before) and that I must switch to Armour because I obviously was not con­ver­ting the T4 pro­perly. I’m only just switching to Armour now, after months of trying to get the rest of me in bet­ter shape, but I’m buying it direct from the Sta­tes. I wouldn’t go NEAR an NHS doc­tor with this because I know that, even if Armour were allo­wed, they’d pro­bably force me to come off it and return to my detri­men­tal dose of thy­ro­xine. I would lose the life I’ve finally got back in the last 6 months.

    I don’t unders­tand why hypothy­roi­dism is such a con­ten­tious issue across the medi­cal esta­blish­ment. It is such an easy thing to diag­nose (just on phy­si­cal symp­toms alone), easy to treat and one would think it pre­fe­ra­ble that a patient take a natu­ral subs­tance over a che­mi­cal one. Why doc­tors con­sis­tently refuse to lis­ten to patients baf­fles me. It’s made me so scep­ti­cal about the entire state medi­cal esta­blish­ment that the idea of having to see an NHS doc­tor gives me the willies! 

    We must keep up the fight, but it’s going to be a long one. Your site is such a tre­men­dous help to iso­la­ted peo­ple like me who have been made to feel like rene­ga­des. Thank you!

  8. Georgiana said:

    Feb 21, 09 at 7:10 am

    Again, I am so glad I don’t live in the UK. This is appa­lling. I hate to get poli­ti­cal here, but this is EXACTLY why we don’t need socia­lism and socia­li­zed medi­cine here in the US. Why do you think the UK has done this? I got a pretty good guess, and it invol­ves dollar signs (or, well, them funny-looking sym­bols the Brits use to repre­sent money). So, I say that all of us who have the mas­sive good for­tune to be taking des­si­ca­ted thy­roid should thank our lucky stars that we live in a country that has a medi­cal sys­tem that may not be per­fect, but that at least allows our doc­tors to take charge of get­ting us bet­ter treat­ment, if they so choose, ins­tead of simply follo­wing orders. We need to keep trying to edu­cate our own doc­tors, no mat­ter how stub­bornly they may refuse to lis­ten. I may not be a doc­tor, but I am an expert. I’m an expert on ME. I’m a patient, and I know what makes my body sick and what makes it well, and any doc­tor who won’t lis­ten to my expert advice on what does and does not work for me will not stay my doc­tor for long. (Bless my doctor’s little heart that she choo­ses to treat me des­pite “nor­mal” labs!) I say PRY MY ARMOUR FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS.

  9. Judy said:

    Feb 21, 09 at 9:06 am

    No only are we having to fight GP’s in to belie­ving we are hyopthy­roid now we can’t even request Armour. I take levo and have done since 1994 (although it took my then Gp 6 long years to deci­ded I was hypo) and yes it did improve some symp­toms but I know I still have symp­toms and could be bet­ter than this. 

    I was just about to try and get my GP (who by the way is hypothoy­rid her­self) on side and see if she would presc­ribe Armour, obviously not now. I guess I either con­ti­nue on with half a life on levo or pay to import Armour. I know its expen­sive but feel I have no choice. I’ve got to feel bet­ter than I do.

    One of the pro­blems with this ill­ness is it takes the fight out of you. The brain fog and the lack of energy makes it dif­fi­cult to stand up and voice an opinion.

    I really can’t unders­tand the medi­cal pro­fes­sion in the UK if you could make your patients fully bet­ter wouldn’t you want to. Why are we being dic­ta­ted to like this.

  10. O'Ross said:

    Feb 21, 09 at 8:00 pm

    Inves­ti­gate Codex Ali­men­ta­rius, a world-wide scheme to take our vita­mins, mins, herbs away from us, lea­ving us only with Big Pharma. Cou­ple that with GMO’d foods, and you have a popu­la­tion of sick peo­ple, too ill to fight back. Com­mu­ni­cate with ever­yone who will lis­ten. We still out-number the bas­tards. –O’Ross

  11. Theresa Roberts said:

    Feb 22, 09 at 4:52 am

    This is in res­ponse to Mandy Waggott’s plea for peti­tions, etc. There is an online peti­tion site (advo­ca­ting green, earth-friendly and healthy living ideals) called Care2. I believe that any­body with a worthwhile cause can start a peti­tion there (our local, Saint John, NB, Canada Ani­mal Res­cue Lea­gue recently won a peti­tion cha­llenge as “Best Shel­ter in Ame­rica”!). It is cer­tainly worth a try. Some of these peti­tions get overwhel­ming res­pon­ses. Good Luck! 

    I still have to explain to my doc­tor each six months that my TSH (very sup­pres­sed, while actual free T4 and T3 are well in range) does not give a good repre­sen­ta­tion of my thy­roid sta­tus. I don’t expect he’ll ever con­si­der presc­ri­bing anything to sup­port my adre­nals (as con­tro­ver­sial as get­ting correct hypothy­roid treat­ment, for some rea­son). I’ve also recently begun to treat my very deple­ted female hor­mo­nes, and they do not want anything to do with bio-identicals either. Visits to the doc­tor are very frus­tra­ting and demo­ra­li­zing! Thank­fully I have found a great female com­poun­ding phar­ma­cist in my area who will inter­vene for me when necessary.

    Best of luck to you all in the UK (from a thy­roid patient in Canada). I hope that your country’s thy­roid pro­to­col does not make its way across the ocean to this country.

  12. Nick said:

    Feb 22, 09 at 9:46 am

    It’s time to fight — this is one step too far! We need to orga­nise and fight this — don’t lose hope!

  13. Dominica said:

    Feb 22, 09 at 10:23 pm

    Has anyone star­ted a peti­tion at http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/? It is for UK citi­zens and per­ma­nent residents.

  14. Chance said:

    Feb 23, 09 at 1:03 pm

    I have recently been diag­no­sed with hashi­mo­tos and have been doing exten­sive rea­ding on the drugs and treat­ment of the disease. 

    I just found infor­ma­tion today a synthe­tic pill called Thy­ro­lar that may be of inte­rest to the UK peo­ple that no lon­ger have access to the natu­ral drug Armour. I found the name of this pill from a posi­tive pos­ting saying that it was help­ful to the per­son vs. just Synth­roid on http://caloriecount.about.com/anybody-know-anything-cytomel-ft34386. I have not used this drug or know anyone who has, but thought it may be help­ful, as it has synthe­tic T4 AND T3 in a sin­gle pill.

    http://www.thyrolar.com/

    I’m still wor­king on fin­ding a doc­tor that will presc­ribe Armour here in the sta­tes so I may try the natu­ral drug ins­tead of just Synth­roid — to see if it’ll help my horren­dously wor­se­ning memory — don’t be supri­sed if I post this again later, LOL ;) . Good luck to everyone!

  15. Dawn Wood said:

    Feb 25, 09 at 7:26 am

    a num­ber of peo­ple have repor­ted having their armour presc­ri­pi­tion filled by their dr this week, so far no one else has said they have been refu­sed it

  16. Dawn Wood said:

    Feb 25, 09 at 9:33 am

    a num­ber of peo­ple have repor­ted having their armour presc­rip­tion filled by their dr this week, so far no one else has said they have been refu­sed it

  17. joanne schwab said:

    Feb 28, 09 at 1:58 am

    I didn’t see on your site the situa­tion that hap­pe­ned with Eltro­xin in New Zea­land (and now 150 pages on Mary Sho­mon site http://www.thyroid.about.com I found it as I was having same symp­toms it turns out they chan­ged the for­mula of Eltro­xin moving it from Canada (where I am) to Ger­many (I think mayb they are now manu­fac­tu­ring in China) we all got deathly sick!!!!!… Could you not show all that evi­dence to the Gov’t and say you want to ban something ban Eltro­xin Not Armour! In Canada they say anything over 5 is hypo..but the U.S. (where I’m from) the endro assoc has lowe­red it to anything over 3… But still many doc­tors don’t even know that or care..Just found your web site, just spent 2 hours rea­ding. I was bor­der­line years ago and I had to fight to have the doc­tors treat me…Synthroid wor­ked good for a few years then I star­ted falling apart, like you say with the adre­nal and taking it and having the same symp­toms actually worse!…after seeing the Eltro­xin scan­del, I just stop­ped, I went on alther­na­tive health sup­ple­ments, vita­mins (lots of exer­cise) and I feel bet­ter then I have in years, I was always on synth­roid then I found out synth­roid was made in porto rico and wan­ted one made in Canada, so I switched (not fee­ling food on synth­roid any­way) I switched to Eltro­xin then I became even worse. I hope you can fight this plan of the Gov’t to ruin so many lives…There is power in num­bers eh!
    Thanks for your exce­llent site. It’s refreshing to hear you spea­king so directly and saying about the medi­cal all the things most of us feel. JoAnne, Toronto, Canada

  18. Cathy Poland said:

    Mar 14, 09 at 7:57 pm

    I’m extre­mely sorry to hear about the ban in UK. This is a disas­ter. I live in Mon­treal, Canada. I was put on Synth­roid about 7 years ago when my TSH was 5.3. Later, after little bene­fit a friend advi­sed me to take des­si­ca­ted thy­roid. My hus­band is a GP and was ama­zed at the bene­fits from Thy­roid Hor­mone (as it’s called in Canada). He’s con­ti­nued to presc­ribe it to me now for about seven years. Last night I atten­ded a talk in Mon­treal by Dr. Mark Starr from USA who treats patients with des­si­ca­ted thy­roid, iodine, etc. He’s re-done his book adding info on iodine and has sug­ges­ted I start taking iodine to make the des­si­ca­ted work bet­ter. His book’s called Hypothy­roi­dism Type 2. There were peo­ple in the audience asking how to find a doc­tor who will presc­ribe Thy­roid Hor­mone. Only one natu­ro­path was named in Mon­treal. I’ve been hoping to find sup­port from a know­led­ge­ble doc­tor for years. Unfor­tu­na­tely it seems one has to do one’s own research. Dr. Peat­field, in UK also has an book called, ‘Your Thy­roid and how to keep it healthy’. He says we must learn as much if not more about this than doc­tors and treat our­sel­ves. May sanity prevail!

  19. Diana Glasford said:

    May 12, 09 at 11:48 am

    I live in Texas, USA: My thy­roid was remo­ved due to can­cer twelve years ago. Until I switched to Armour about 4 years ago– I could never get adjus­ted– lost months of my life every year. Now, I have a hard time get­ting my presc­rip­tion. I had to change to seven 30mg tablets daily and now my con­cern is that we are going socia­list and I will not be able to get the Armour at all. I had heart attack symp­toms on the Synth­roid when it was high enough to keep me from brain fog, muscle pain, and depres­sion. If I knew what I do now, I would have kept half my thyroid.

  20. Anika said:

    May 30, 09 at 4:18 pm

    YOU DO NOT WANT SOCIAL HEALTH CARE IN THE US! IT IS A NIGHTMARE!!!The whole the grass is gree­ner thing..NO. You do NOT want it. Trust those of us who are living in it.
    These peo­ple are cri­mi­nals, and we should revolt.
    It is SHOCKING that a doc­tor would change what is wor­king when someone has no symp­toms to con­form to TSH lab tests. Wha­te­ver hap­pe­ned to the hip­poc­ra­tic oath, to harm no person??????

  21. JEANNE said:

    Sep 25, 09 at 1:03 pm

    IT IS ALSO HAPPENING IN THE USA. PHARMACIES HAVE BACK ORDER OF AMOUR THYROID BUT CAN NOT GET IT. COULD IT BE BECAUSE FORREST PHARMACEUTICALS IS MAKING THYROLAR?

    (from Janie: Thy­ro­lar is on bac­kor­der, too. What’s going on is more rela­ted to demand being grea­ter than supply).

  22. Jane said:

    Sep 26, 09 at 1:00 am

    This is very serious. Read Codex Ali­men­ta­rius. The new appro­ved vita­min (Appen­dix II)list is coming into force in the UK Decem­ber 31st. Read Agenda 21.
    I am in the UK our NHS is a clo­sed shop nothing can be ques­tio­ned. My GP is a very sad man he can­not heal his patients. I have 20 Armour tablets left — then what? I can­not even be diag­no­sed as hypothy­roid as our range is so wide. Left to live a life on the sofa in fog.…
    US do not alow Codex to take away your civil liberties.You do not want the NHS. Don’t let the pos­tu­ring on Iran divert your attention…

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