(From Janie: One tablespoon of Apple Cider Vinegar in water or juice, once or twice a day, will soon take away lactose intolerance)

Thyroid-S is excellent (I take it myself) and does NOT have aluminum in it. You can see the ingredient list right here on STTM. Please do not put out false information in order to push the other Thai-made competitor, Thiroyd. Thank you.

Not only did the new Armour formula effect my adrenals in a negative way, I also had an allergic reaction as well. It was very scary and very damaging to my health. It took weeks to get out of my system. I had been taking the old formula for 2 1/2 years at that point with only good results.

Seems a bit irresponsible to make a blanket statement to just raise a med without knowing the problems/symptoms that people had or without seeing labs first.

If it wasn’t the cellulose in the new formula then what was it that caused such a reaction in so many?

Furthermore, some folks with digestive problems can not tolerate cellulose at all. I’ve recently been talking to a woman who found her digestive issues worsen significantly with any cellulose at all. It’s not “inert” if your GI tract is damaged with few villi remaining; any sort of fiber causes further damage by scratching up the surface and causing severe pain.

While ascorbic acid may cause loose stools at high doses, the neutral forms of vitamin C, such as sodium ascorbate, magnesium ascorbate and calcium ascorbate do not. It is very easy to use a form of vitamin C that does not cause this problem and this has been common knowledge for decades, heck even Linus Pauling discussed it.

I’m not sure how much vitamin C is needed to compound a script, but I suspect it’s not enough to cause loose stools even if using the acid form.

Certainly it’s not enough acidophilus to cause problems, many of us get more than would fit in a pill in our yogurt and kefir, especially if we do homemade types. Saying the amount of acidophilus in a compounded pill could cause problems is similar to saying it’s unhealthy to drink a pint of kefir – it’s just ridiculous. The vast majority of probiotics do not colonize the GI tract anyway, but pass, so it’s highly unlikely this would cause a problem even if your script was compounded in some silly manner that had you swallowing 10-20 pills a day.

Similarly, the amount of lactose in a pill would be very small. Unless you’re eating an entirely carb-free diet, this is not going to increase blood glucose significantly, certainly not enough to feed yeast. Those of us eating a more “normal” low-carb diet of 70-100 grams carb per day are not going to be increasing carbohydrate significantly with a pill’s worth of lactose. Though obviously those with lactose intolerance must avoid it in any dose.

In short, compounding pharmacies ought to deal with customer’s known issues with fillers… some will have issues with cellulose, some with lactose, etc.

Avoiding those issues is the way to keep customers coming back; insisting they MUST have a filler they know cause them problems is just ridiculous.