Mary Ann’s Story

If you need ins­pi­ra­tion and hope, Mary Ann’s story is just that – a before-and-after saga, from the night­mare of being untrea­ted or under­trea­ted on T4 meds…to fin­ding Armour and a life com­ple­tely changed.

It has been one year since I star­ted taking Armour Thy­roid. A year is a good time to cele­brate and say thanks. The know­ledge I have gai­ned about fin­ding a good doc­tor, taking natu­ral hor­mo­nes, and taking sup­por­tive medi­ca­tions and how to handle my health has given me the tools and will to win my life back and my health.

During the two and half year night­mare of taking no medi­ca­tion or taking synthe­tic hor­mo­nes, I was 40 pounds hea­vier, bloa­ted, my hair falling out, my face and body full of acne and extreme dry skin, nails pee­ling, overwhel­ming tired­ness, loss of memory, depres­sion han­ging over me like a gui­llo­tine, and diges­tion was a disaster.

I was una­ble to func­tion at work, became socially enc­lo­sed, and the light just kind of left my soul. Not to men­tion, the blood curd­ling frus­tra­tion of seeing 8 dif­fe­rent doc­tors and endos who told me I could cure everything with a synthe­tic pill and who refu­sed to lis­ten to me. I felt like I was taking crazy pills not thy­roid pills.

I still had enough gump­tion left in me to know that there had to be a bet­ter solu­tion. Thank­fully there are peo­ple like all of you out there who have made it pos­si­ble for peo­ple like me to put an ans­wer to the ques­tion, “Is my life always going to be like this?” The ans­wer is no.

Since making the tran­si­tion from taking synthe­tic hor­mo­nes to taking Armour, I have watched my symp­toms slowly, but surely disap­pear and mend them­sel­ves over the last year. I am only about 7 pounds away from my nor­mal weight and still losing. My hair, skin and nails are healthy. My body and brain are func­tio­ning again. I am back to work and wor­king smar­ter and bet­ter than ever.

It was a miracle for me that almost ins­tantly, within weeks of star­ting the Armour, the depres­sion began to lift and even­tually disap­pea­red. It has not come back since. I feel strong men­tally and emo­tio­nally; and, my soul feels full and color­ful again.

I am very lucky to have peo­ple in my per­so­nal life that have sup­por­ted me during this, but some­ti­mes it was impos­si­ble for them to unders­tand exactly what I was going through. I am gra­te­ful I could come find some peace and true unders­tan­ding during the chaos of recovering.

I do not know how to thank peo­ple who are stran­gers, con­fi­dants and angels at the same time who have given me back two of the most valua­ble things I have in my life– my health and my hap­pi­ness. Also, dea­ling with my disease, it has given me a new found con­fi­dence and I find myself actually see­king life out more now, I breathe in my world, I’m crea­ting again, and I do all these things with a new posi­tive pers­pec­tive while taking care of myself, body and soul. How do I pos­sibly thank you?

With lots of love,
Mary Ann