I called around to find a small independent pharmacy that still had PADDOCK’s generic T3 and had to pay for it on my own. No biggie. I’d rather feel better than not.

Just wanted to share my generic experience. Some day I hope to be albe to switch to the pig products — but my antibodies are still too high for that. Perhaps next year.

The nutrimeds bottle says not to take in excess of five tablets. I don’t know why it says that. It may just be a thing to avoid being sued or something. It makes sense to me that you would just take as many as are needed for you. If you were taking 120 mg of armour and still didn’t feel good I bet you would need quite a few of the nutrimeds. I was taking 30 mg of armour. I think that wasn’t quite enough for me really, but I didn’t feel too bad on it. I am taking four times that amount in nutrimeds to feel pretty good. So if that was about the same for you, that would be like fourish of the nutrimeds, each being 130 mg I think. But you said you still didn’t feel as we The chest symptoms you were talking about before you took armll as you though you should on 120 of armour. So you may need even more than the four nutrimeds, like four and a half or five. Or your adrenals may be involved. Do you get to a point where if you exceed a certain amount of armour or nutrimeds you feel symptoms of hyperthyroidism, and if you back down just a little then you are back to hypo? This usually means that your adrenals are underfunctioning and can’t handle it when you go high enough on your medication to resolve the hypo. If you do go high enough that it could resolve the hypo, you then jump immediately to hyper. The chest symptoms you had before trying armour, (I am assuming you weren’t taking anything) can be symptoms of low thyroid and or adrenal I believe. I would also encourage you to take your temps as advised on this website at 9, noon, and 3 pm for about a week and graph your results, so you can tell if you are just dealing with low thyroid, or low thyroid and adrenal. Seeing the patterns in your temps can really help you to gauge whether you are making progress. If your temps are low after taking a few days of a certain dosage of nutrimeds or whatever other medication, you can try going up and see what happens. Then you can also see what happens over a few days in terms of the stability of your temps. If they are fluctuating too much, then you know your adrenals are having a hard time and you need to support them. Hydrocortisone, which I think I remember seeing some sources to get that without prescrip, that people have found reliable if you can’t get prescrip, or a supplement called Isocort are recommended on this site. Nutrimeds also has raw whole adrenal or adrenal cortex as well. I don’t know how it compares to isocort.

Hang in there! I think you can get this figured out and get to feeling better.

Hi Shauna, I could not find throidis on google, did you by any chance mean thyroiditis? I am not sure that what you were experiencing were symptoms of that or not. Maybe someone else here knows?

I know I never felt good on Armour but after visiting this site it seems I was taking it wrong and most likely not enough for me. I was only taking 3 grains and all at once, in the morning. I felt so awful, I could not function at all. Went back on Synthroid after several years on Armour and I can function at least but there is so much left to be desired in the way I feel, like freezing for instance. I read the stories on this website and I want to feel as good as the people do in the success stories. Now I that I have some Naturethroid, I am chicken to try it and I also feel selfish because so many people are looking for this drug right now. My daughter is having big trouble on her Levothyroxine in Germany and I may have to take the Naturethroid I got to her there if she cannot get what she needs. I know my daughter has had chest and heart pains on Synthroid and maybe others have as well. She is taking a generic right now by Mylan, better for her than Synthroid but not by much. I guess if you aren’t going to feel good anyway you may as well buy the cheaper generic! I have read here where some people do feel better on Naturethroid than Armour so I am hoping my daughter and I are some of those people. Get out your telephone book and start calling the pharmacies, that is what I did. I found 3 that had Armour and 1 that had the Naturethroid and I could have called 50 more besides that to see what they had, maybe more, that is just a guess. I tried Nutri Meds before and I felt rotten. I want to be one of the people who can take Naturethroid and feel fantastic, hair, warm, energy, clarity of thought! Please let us know if you can find some for yourself and good luck!

You need to be taking your temp. and gauging how you feel. If you are still not feeling right, take a little more. Before Nutrimeds I was taking 30 mg. of armour. I started out with a quarter of a nutrimeds tab, as that is somewhat close to 30 mg. But I have had to steadily increase on up to a whole tablet as I have been watching my temps. and how I feel. I am feeling pretty good after a few days on a whole tablet, but I wasn’t taking that much armour to begin with. You may need considerably more. You could also call and talk with the lady at nutrimeds, I think Mary is her name. She is very helpful and answers any questions. She uses nutrimeds herself. It seems to be true that quite a bit more is needed than if a person were using armour, but my experience seems to be showing that if you get up to the right amount it can work. I also like that it is all natural and I don’t want to take something like the nonprescrip stuff from Thailand that so many like, because it is full of aluminum based dyes of about four different varieties.

I ‘ve been trying to switch to Thyroid by ERFA (after 18 years on Synthroid) and I feel tired and foggy and gained 5 pounds in 2 weeks. My last test results last month were:

Free T3: 3.0

Free T4: 1.8

Cortisol Morning (saliva): 4.6

Cortisol Noon (saliva): 2.0

Cortisol Evening (saliva): 0.6 (range: 0.6–1.9)

Cortisol Night (saliva): 0.3 (range: 0.4–1.0)

My doctor prescribed 2 Grains of Thyroid (Erfa)
(Note: I’m weaning myself gradually from the Synthroid)