Word has tric­kled down to me from a few patients and emails that even Natu­reth­roid is get­ting har­der to come by at phar­ma­cies because of the extreme demand on RLC Labs.

No, they are not cea­sing to make desic­ca­ted thy­roid. They just weren’t pre­pa­red for the high demand due to the refor­mu­la­tion of Armour and pro­blems it cau­sed.  And they aren’t kee­ping up and won’t for seve­ral months.

So, if you can’t last with your current presc­rip­tion for seve­ral months, you will pro­bably need to talk to your doc about get­ting a gene­ric ver­sion by Major Phar­macy, or get some over-the-counter like Nutri­Meds, or even the “Hypo Sup­port For­mula” made by RLC Labs, but expect to take much more of either.  Many patients are also men­tio­ning Thyroid-S by Grea­ter Pharma as a bac­kup until RLC catches up.  But it’s by mail order and will take a few weeks to arrive.  Goo­gle any of the above. Finally, you can move a slight step back­wards and talk to your doc about doing synthe­tic T4 and synthe­tic T3.  It’s not going to be quite a good as being on desic­ca­ted thy­roid, but it’s cer­tainly bet­ter than being on T4 alone, don’t you agree?? Keep con­nec­ted to your doc.  And hang in there. This will pass.

Janie

P.S. I’ll be adding more infor­ma­tion to this post tomo­rrow. Check back.

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Below is the actual release by RLC Labs:

For any patients expe­rien­cing dif­fi­cul­ties in attai­ning either Nature-ThroidTM or Westh­roidTM through their phar­macy, RLC Labs, Inc, asks these indi­vi­duals to have their phar­macy con­tact us directly at 877 – 797-7997 to place an order, or have their phar­macy request a drop-shipment through their who­le­sale supplier.

RLC Labs’ pro­ducts are only avai­la­ble through who­le­sa­lers, phar­ma­cies and or their doc­tors; thus all con­fir­ma­tions and/or trac­king infor­ma­tion will only be avai­la­ble through the who­le­sa­ler, phar­macy, or doctor’s office that pla­ced the order.

RLC Labs is expe­rien­cing a subs­tan­tial inc­rease in orders for Nature-ThroidTM and Westh­roidTM. The recent unex­pec­ted influx has inun­da­ted our cus­to­mer ser­vice and ship­ping depart­ments, thus cau­sing delays and deple­ting our current stock. We are wor­king around the clock to ful­fill all current orders; howe­ver, we can­not gua­ran­tee that
any future orders will be ful­fi­lled until our stock is replenished.

RLC Labs will con­ti­nue to accept orders from our cus­to­mers, howe­ver as of Fri­day August 14^th, we are bac­kor­de­red on all strengths of Nature-ThroidTM and Westh­roidTM. Ship­ment is expec­ted to resume within 90 days.

We regret to inform you of this situa­tion; howe­ver, we can assure you that we are wor­king dili­gently to reple­nish our stock and will resume ship­ping as soon as pos­si­ble. Please accept our sin­ce­rest apo­logy for any inconvenience.

We do unders­tand how much of an impact this has as most of us emplo­yed @ RLC Labs, are hypothy­roid and take our own pro­duct. Thus, we know and unders­tand how impor­tant it is to get pro­duct back into the mar­ket place. We are gra­te­ful for your con­ti­nued patience, patro­nage and support!

Feel free to con­tact our cus­to­mer ser­vice depart­ment with any ques­tions con­cer­ning this mat­ter @ 877 – 797-7997.

Thank you from all of us @ RLC Labs, Inc.