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For 2008, as a hypothy­roid patient: I will:

1) expect that the rela­tionship with my doc­tor will be a TEAM approach to my health care: not just his medi­cal school/continuing education/experience, but also my own impor­tant know­ledge and wis­dom that I have gai­ned (from rea­ding sites like this), plus my sub­jec­tive expe­rience on my medi­ca­tion. My doc­tor does not live in my body or expe­rience my symp­toms; I do.

2) take the time to find a bet­ter doc­tor if my doc­tor refu­ses to res­pect the know­ledge I have gai­ned from rea­ding sites like this, and/or will not lis­ten to my sub­jec­tive expe­rience in my own body!

3) make my symp­toms far more impor­tant than ink spots on a piece of paper called lab results, and will not pas­si­vely allow a doc­tor to treat me ONLY accor­ding to those lab results.

4) give myself impor­tant sup­ple­ments, inc­lu­ding, but not limi­ted to: sele­nium and zinc (helps con­ver­sion of T4 to T3), other mine­rals which may inc­lude mag­ne­sium, etc., plenty of B-vitamins (which are nee­ded as I improve my thy­roid func­tion, besi­des sup­por­ting my adre­nals), Vita­min C (also sup­ports my adre­nals) and more that I feel are sui­ted for my needs.

5) be open to the fact that if Armour or other desic­ca­ted thy­roid pro­ducts don’t seem to be wor­king, I am making one of seve­ral mis­ta­kes in my use of it, and will iden­tify my mis­ta­kes and correct them.

Do you have others as a thy­roid patient? Just res­pond to this post.

.…if you will take the time to read here of what thou­sands of patients have found out about the medi­ca­tion you will PROBABLY be put on, and about the lab you will PROBABLY be dosed by.

For those who haven’t heard, Oprah announ­ced on Sep­tem­ber 10^th during her Good Mor­ning Ame­rica inter­view that she “blew her thy­roid out”. Now that also sounds sus­pi­ciously like she also has adre­nal fati­gue, but time will tell.

And Oprah will now join the club of an esti­ma­ted “billions” world­wide with thy­roid disease. But even worse, she may also be joi­ning the club of those who for nearly 50 years, have been put on the lousy T4-only medi­ca­tions (Synth­roid, Levoxyl, Levothy­ro­xine and others) and who have been terro­ri­zed with the TSH lab and it’s dubious and pathe­tic “nor­mal” range.

Yes Oprah, begin­ning in the 1960’s, doc­tors star­ting put­ting ALL of us on T4-only meds, and in the early 1970’s, dosing by the TSH lab. And NEITHER have wor­ked. Sure, some will state they felt bet­ter. But many will tell you that NOTHING chan­ged. And ALL, to one degree or another, have been left with a variety of hypothy­roid symp­toms while doc­tors have been proc­lai­ming that those VERY symp­toms had nothing to do with hypothy­roid since we were now “ade­qua­tely” treated.

But we have NEVER been “ade­qua­tely” trea­ted, Oprah. Doc­tors became cattle in the chu­tes of their pharmaceutically-financed medi­cal schools, blindly belie­ving that T4-only meds were wor­king and that the man-made TSH was the gold stan­dard of diag­no­sis and dosing…and igno­ring cli­ni­cal pre­sen­ta­tions which sho­wed the opposite.

And when we still com­plai­ned of symp­toms, we have been put on anti-depressants, sta­tins, anti-anxiety meds, and a variety of other pills to ban­daid our con­ti­nuing hypo symp­toms.

And we finally fought back Oprah. For the last 7+ years, patients like myself found out that there has always been a MUCH bet­ter treat­ment (desic­ca­ted thy­roid), MUCH bet­ter labs (free T3 and free T4) and much bet­ter dosing stra­tegy (by symp­tom eli­mi­na­tion). Our lives have become far bet­ter because of what we have lear­ned.

This web­site repre­sents the know­ledge of a large and cons­tantly gro­wing body of patients world­wide, and some wise doc­tors, which goes totally COUNTER to nearly 50 LOUSY years of piti­ful thy­roid treatment.

You, Oprah, are a megaphone of influence. And if you can take the time to read this web­site, you might play a huge role in hel­ping to change MILLIONS of lives. Because right now, the vast majo­rity of the medi­cal com­mu­nity does NOT get this, and is con­ti­nuing to keep patients SICK and TIRED and/or with con­ti­nuing hypothy­roid symp­toms of some kind. And YOU are going to be one, with your own con­ti­nuing list of symp­toms, if you don’t con­si­der what thy­roid patients are trying to tell you by nearly 50 years of LIVING it.