Comments on: Are you switching to Nature-throid? Here’s 10 good things to know!

By: Marsha

Marsha — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:16:33 +0000

See I was wrong it is “natural desiccated thyroid” oops!

By: Marsha

Marsha — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:11:09 +0000

I was on the natural dessicated (or compounded) formula and felt so much better. When Armour returned I went back on it and my symptoms are returning as well. Yes you can get your prescription compounded (or made on site) if you can find a compounding pharmacy. Search for a compounding pharmacy in your area.

When your doc writes the perscription it needs to read: natural dessicated thyroid. Check the spelling! I may be wrong! lol! I was on 60mg. A 90-day supply of the compounded version costed me $50 because it was not covered by my insurance. But armour is costing me nearly the same so I feel it is worth the extra $5 every 3 months to feel so much better.

The compounding pharmacies use the same active ingredients in armour and naturethroid. These will usually come in capsule form rather than tablet form.

By: Denise Breslin

Denise Breslin — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:45:04 +0000

OMG — thank you. Did not know new Nature Throid not good. Any recommendations other than falling back on the not so great Armour?

What a world. Thank you so much for all this up to date info. Never heard a word of this elsewhere.

denise

(From Janie: the new Naturethroid is good if you chew it up before swallowing, or pulverize it with a mortar and pestle. You can even add sugar or honey to it. )

By: Sharon

Sharon — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:55:09 +0000

I learned from your site that they changed the formula of Nature Throid in early 2010. That explained to me why my hair has been falling out since June, I have heart palpitations and am so exhausted. I am so glad that I found that information here. Thank you! I wasn’t even satisfied with the Nature Throid to begin with. The old Armour was tops!
I am now trying a compound made with lactose. I have been on it for 4 days and am having a couple of hours everyday where I feel really good and then it goes away. I hope it just needs to build up in my body and then I will be good to go.
I had it made with lactose because maybe it is the methylcellulose in the new Armour that I couldn’t digest and the microcellulose in the new Nature Throid that I can’t digest.
I was told by a compounder that lactose may not be a good filler because it is a food and the porcine will bind to it instead of properly getting into my system. We will see. If it doesn’t work, I will try it with acidophilus.

By: B.Anna

B.Anna — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:55:20 +0000

Hallo, I had to lower my dose on a !/4 GRain with the old Nature Thyroid, when I switched from Armour.
but now RLCLabs has also changed the Formula!!
the New Nature is not very good, I get headache and diarrhoe from it.
I’m very sad , now I must search to another Company oder Generika again.
The “Old” Nature was the best product I ever had?
can anyone tell me, WHY this Companies always change their products?
could anyone of You write a mail to RLC-labs, to ask them, if they not could go back to the old formula of Nature?
a lot of thanks!
b.anna

By: hope

hope — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:28:09 +0000

Has anyone had to lower their dose when sitching from new Armour to Nature-throid?

I just started N-T a couple of weeks ago (at the same dose as I was on Armour) but my heart feels like it’s beating out of my chest and am having other hyper symptoms.

By: amanda

amanda — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:55:47 +0000

was on synthroid due to Hashi’s for 8 years, and stopped taking it 2 years ago due to the severe joint pain, muscle aches so painful could’nt sleep or roll over in bed, no libido, hair falling out etc. TSH rose to 55 at first, then tapered down to 15 eventually. At first, I crashed but then I felt better NOT being on thyroid meds than with synthroid. I wanted to switch to armour, but was now too afraid to try anything! My endo wrote me a script for 30mg of armour last year, I filled the script but was still too frightened to try it. Flash forward to december when the sheer exhaustion forced me to take something. The Armour script is from 2/11/2008. started with the 30 mg for a month then upped it to 60mg for the past 2 weeks. At first slept amazingly well, but it seems that I have NO energy, am out of breath doing the smallest activity, still have no libido and seem to have new joint pain. Could it be that the dosage it too low? Are the meds too old? I do believe that this is the old formula . Does my body need to adjust to any thyroid med after not being on them for 2 years? Has anyone else had a big adjustment period or not felt well immediately?

Any help or input would be appreciated,
Amanda

(From Janie: Hi Amanda. If you get no answers here, which is really more for comments than questions, it might be better to take this to patient groups for great feedback: http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/talk-to-others )

By: Shelly R.

Shelly R. — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:10:49 +0000

I too,had the same problems as most of you with weight gain, hair loss, exhaustion, insomnia, hot flashes, etc…, all started after the Armour Thyroid changed it’s formulation…

We should be compensated for our sufferings, because we PAID for our medicine to get better, not to get so much worse…

Please let me know if there is any lawsuit.
Sincerely,
Shelly

By: Regina G.

Regina G. — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:10:19 +0000

I would like to know if there is any class action against the Labs for Armour Thyroid… Please let me know.

I had the same problems as most of you with weight gain, hair loss, exhaustion, insomnia, hot flashes, etc…, all started after the Armour Thyroid changed it’s formulation…

We should be compensated for our sufferings, because we PAID for our medicine to get better, not to get so much worse…

Please let me know if there is any lawsuit.

Thank you,

Regina

By: jackie hales

jackie hales — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:03:40 +0000

I changed from Armour thyroid to Nature-throid and feel so much better. I have two weeks left and cant get it any where any suggestions