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The follo­wing com­ment by RLC Labs, a phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal which has made desic­ca­ted thy­roid like Natu­reth­roid since the 1930’s, was sent in a let­ter to a phar­macy. You may find it inte­res­ting as com­pa­red to pro­blems so many have repor­ted with Forest Labs and the newly for­mu­la­ted Armour:

We have never had any man­da­tory or volun­tary recall of any of our thy­roid medi­ca­tions due to incon­sis­tency in dosa­ges. Our for­mu­la­tion and pre­pa­ra­tion is able to sta­bi­lize the T3 and T4 hor­mo­nes through its entire expiry period (3 years from manu­fac­tu­ring) pro­vi­ding addi­tio­nal assu­rance to both phy­si­cian and patient alike in qua­lity and con­sis­tency of our strengths.

Kudos for RLC Labs and Natu­reth­roid! Patients whose lives have chan­ged ten-fold thanks to desic­ca­ted thy­roid need a good pro­duct. (And we’re going to hope down the line that “someone” will create desic­ca­ted thy­roid in a sublin­gual form.)

P.S. If you don’t know what has hap­pe­ned to Armour and patient expe­rien­ces with it, scroll down.

*Want to be infor­med of these blog posts? Curious what’s on Janie’s mind? Just use the Noti­fi­ca­tions to the left and below the links.

*SALE! Stop the Thy­roid Mad­ness T-shirts are now 50% off just because I like sales. A great way to spread the word about our patient revo­lu­tion for the supe­rio­rity of desic­ca­ted thy­roid over T4-only meds. You’ll also see funny bum­per stic­kers. Also…when you order the STTM book and request it,  you get a Cal­vin peeing on.…(you’ll see) bum­per stic­ker for FREE, and it’s a hoot.

A friend of mine, Kerry, recently con­fes­sed to me and a few friends that it was time to find a new doc­tor. Her nor­mal one had been a disap­point­ment for her far too many times. Time to move on.

And how she is moving on TOTALLY impres­ses me, and I think all of you rea­ding this should con­si­der this posi­ti­vely asser­tive and self-advocating strategy.

First, she scou­red through her list of doc­tors on her insu­rance plan, and found one that loo­ked pro­mi­sing. She called and spoke to his nurse on the phone. She then told us the follo­wing: I explai­ned that I use Armour and refuse to change meds; I am VERY invol­ved in my health; I watch my Frees care­fully and don’t rely on the TSH at all since the feed­back loop is inte­rrup­ted by meds..etc. With that said, the nurse sta­ted she would check with the doctor.

In other words, my friend Kerry refu­sed to do what all of us have done most of our lives – approach the doc­tor pas­si­vely. She clearly out­li­ned who she is, where her inte­lli­gence is about her body, and that she expects a part­nership, not a demi-god, one-sided dic­ta­torship of what is right and what isn’t right for her health care.

She also sta­ted that if this doc­tor didn’t come through, her next stra­tegy was to write a let­ter about her health needs and how she wants to be very invol­ved in her treat­ment, then fax it to every avai­la­ble doc­tor on her insu­rance list in her area and see if she gets someone calling.

MAJOR, HAND-CLAPPING BRAVO, Kerry!!

THAT, friends, is the way each and every thy­roid patient should approach their health care: can­did as to your beliefs about your treat­ment, and what you want from the doc­tor. And even­tually, your asser­tive approach will pro­duce a doc­tor who is going to be a gem for you! Remem­ber: it’s YOUR body and YOU live in it.

p.s. Without an insu­rance plan? Pull out the Yellow pages! And don’t hesi­tate to use parts of this Dear Doc­tor tem­plate let­ter to help you flesh out and com­pose your words or letter.

***WANT TO MAKE A FASHION STATEMENT ABOUT YOUR THYROID TREATMENT? Go HERE for a thy­roid advo­cacy t-shirt. I dare you to wear it to your doc­tors appoint­ment. (But if you don’t, wear it everywhere else. It does attract questions.)

Because so many of you asked.…you can now order a THYROID ADVOCACY T-SHIRT. And let me tell you – it works!! I did a test run. Wore it to seve­ral pla­ces over seve­ral days to see what reac­tion I would get. And reac­tions I got. Sure, it was a per­son here or a per­son there. But you are plan­ting seeds in each per­son who asks. And they will carry those seeds into their own bet­ter health…and tell others.

And if you think that because you are on a large thy­roid forum or group, it means the word is get­ting out – it is! But we’ve only scratched the sur­face. There are still millions out there who don’t know why they gain weight so easily, feel tired, have rising cho­les­te­rol, hair is thin­ning, or have depres­sion. They need to hear about this.

We have to change the current LOUSY thy­roid treat­ment pro­to­col from the bot­tom up by sprea­ding the word. It’s WE who will go to our doc­tors offi­ces and demand change! It’s WE who will stop put­ting money into the poc­kets of those doc­tors who won’t lis­ten to what patients have lear­ned and go to those who WILL.

Enjoy the shirt! And feel proud for the part YOU can play gar­ne­ring atten­tion and sprea­ding the word! p.s. Right now, orders are from the US only. As soon as Bid­pay upda­tes their chec­kout, I’ll add Inter­na­tio­nal. STTM is not just MY web­site: it is YOURS.

ALSO REMEMBER: if you use Bid­pay, you’ll need to use the CONTACT ME form at the bot­tom of the page to let me know which size. The Bid­pay func­tion has no place to desig­nate size.