Jen’s Story

When Jen emai­led me this story, I was so impres­sed that I got her per­mis­sion to put her ins­pi­ring story right here! Enjoy!

I can not tell you how exci­ted I am to find this web­site! I recently star­ted on Armour a year ago and can not believe the change it has made in me! I was on Synth­roid for 9 years and had been telling my pri­mary care phy­si­cian that something was wrong for the past 2 years. I told him that I thought it was my thy­roid because I was dea­ling with the same symp­toms I had when I was first diag­no­sed with hypothy­roi­dism. He insis­ted it was not my thy­roid because my level was fine.

After a year of com­plai­ning he sug­ges­ted I was depres­sed. Since I know exactly what depres­sion feels like I knew I was not depres­sed and refu­sed to take anti-depressants. I got a new presc­rip­tion of Synth­roid and vowed never to return to his practice.

I star­ted wor­king for a new com­pany that year who is very into the well­ness of their emplo­yees. Among other things they bring in doc­tors to speak to us about various ill­nes­ses, nutri­tion, disease pre­ven­tion etc. One of these was a doc­tor who presc­ri­bes Armour. As he was desc­ri­bing the phy­si­cal symp­toms of someone with hypo, he explai­ned that he would bet there was at least one per­son in our group that suf­fe­red from hypo, was medi­ca­ted, still sho­wing symp­toms and had been told they nee­ded to be on anti-depressants. He then pulled me out of the cro­wed and asked me if I could be used as an exam­ple of phy­si­cal symp­toms of someone who is hypo. He also asked me if I knew that I was hypo. Of course I did and he then asked me what I was on. He desc­ri­bed the use of Armour to treat Hypos and I was shoc­ked. After the semi­nar he pulled me aside and imme­dia­tely made an appoint­ment with me.

I have been on Armour for a year and I can’t remem­ber ever fee­ling this alive. I almost desc­ribe it as fee­ling sharp, crisp, clear. I wish I could go back and do college over. I think I would have lear­ned and retai­ned so much more. I love to exer­cise again, walk my dog, get invol­ved in major pro­jects. I com­ple­ted a 40 mile bike ride and wasn’t drai­ned the next day. The weight
has slowly star­ted to come off with exer­cise, but more than that I feel more alive than I have in years.

My parents and brother, who are also hypo, are still a little skep­ti­cal but I am going to make sure they see this web­site. It’s emo­tio­nal to me to desc­ribe the change Armour has made in my life. I can’t believe I lived 9 years with out kno­wing that my life could be this way. I can’t believe there are others who have lived in the debi­li­ta­ting fog of hypothy­roi­dism much lon­ger than I have. Keep telling peo­ple about Armour and thank you for this sup­por­tive site!