Rotten Tomatoes!
Have you ever read negative comments about STTM, such as we have dangerous advice here or there, are too narrowly focused, have mistreated someone…or any other varieties of angst, ire, and quibbling? They aren’t common, but here are a few rotten tomatoes that have been reported…and our happy reply:
1) STTM is an “armour-only” site - narrowly focused. Yup. You got it exactly right! We are purposely and positively narrowly focused. We are focused on the fact that nearly all thyroid patients have lingering symptoms due to a the inadequate treatment with T4-only meds, and the use of the faulty TSH and it’s lousy range. Yes, some of those lingering symptoms may be milder than others. But I have yet to meet ANYONE with true hypo who didn’t have some symptoms related to a poor treatment medication with a poor lab.
Additionally, we are narrowly focused on the fact that desiccated thyroid was working successfully before the T4-only meds were thrust on the public in the 1960’s, and is still is changing lives for those who have switched to it. It works, and patient experience globally is proving it!
2) Some information on STTM is dangerous. I couldn’t agree more! Some information on STTM could be dangerous….IF you take it out of context with everything else that is written on that subject on the same page, or on related pages (which seems to occur when these kind of specific “dangerous” comments are made.) 
Additionally, this website is a patient-to-patient website, based on the experience of a large and growing body of patients who have switched to desiccated thyroid like Armour or other brands, and/or have discovered other issues related to their hypothyroid and are treating those. The information is based on that repeated experience, not on pie-in-the-sky theory or someone simply needing to sound “informed.” This is provided for your education and evaluation, and is meant to benefit your team relationship with a good doctor, not to replace that team relationship. To find a good doc to have a team relationship with, go here.
3) The information on STTM is not based on solid clinical research and study. That’s absolutely correct. It’s not. And that’s because solid clinical research on what we have found out is NOT out there and never has been! Patients were forced to figure a lot of the information themselves…because doctors have NOT been listening…and we stayed sick.
What the information on STTM is based on is a large and growing body of patients who got sick-and-tired of feeling sick-and-tired, and who switched to desiccated thyroid and LIVED again! It’s based on patient experience that the TSH lab range did NOT conform to how we felt. It’s based on patient experience that a large percentage of patients seemed to have another problem - adrenal fatigue, which needs treatment. It’s based on their experience with other issues that came along with their hypo and/or adrenal fatigue, such as low ferritin, low B-12, autoimmune diseases..and so forth. STTM is based on things we have learned and how are lives are MUCH improved.
When the day comes that the medical establishment learns to LISTEN to clinical presentation sitting right there in their offices, we will REJOICE!!
4) Someone has been mistreated on STTM or by those associated with STTM. My comment on this can be short and sweet: I’ve always appreciated the adage that there is always “another side of the story”. Cuz if someone says that, there is. 
5) STTM is a self-treatment site. It’s a fact that some patients who choose to self-treat will visit STTM for information. But we can’t stop that, nor do we condemn anyone for feeling forced to self-treat in light of doctors who aren’t listening to them where they live. 
But we do encourage anyone to do what it takes to find a good doctor, if possible, whom you can then take the info on STTM to your appointment and make your relationship with your doctor a TEAM - your knowledge, your body, and what your doctor can contribute based on his knowledge.
Postscript: what may be the most accurate about STTM is that there is more good information to come! There is always valuable and cutting-edge insight out there which patients are learning in order to best treat our hypothyroid, our adrenal fatigue, and other related conditions. And as we hear them, we’ll add them, or make changes. I will also be adding a page called “NEW INFORMATION” in which I will list WHEN I add new information to this site, and where you can find it.
This bible of hypothyroid treatment contains most everything you will find on this site, plus a whole lot more, including a chapter on T3, an explosive doctor chapter, historical information on desiccated thyroid as well as T4, an entire chapter on the TSH (Thyroid Stimulating Hooey), how to interpret your cortisol labs, extra details in two adrenal chapters, and more!
You can order the book from the publishing website here:
www.laughinggrapepublishing.com
