You
are fed up, you have decided to take the reins on your life, and try and
discover why it is that your having all these different symptoms. Or maybe you
have heard from a someone else close to you about the wonderful success that
person has had switching to natural thyroid. What ever the reason, you are
looking to feel like that person you remember being, laughing, enjoying time
with loved ones, and living life to its fullest. I'd like to share with you
today some history, and general things of Armour Thyroid, and my success I have had
by switching to Armour Thyroid.
Armour
as I will refer to it as, is nothing more than dried thyroid, and is referred
to as natural desiccated thyroid and is derived from pigs. Back in the late
eighteen hundreds, a group of people got the idea to use this method to help
treat patients who suffered with thyroid disorders. This became the standard
for helping to treat thyroid suffers up through the nineteen seventies. In the nineteen
fifties, synthetic thyroid hormone had been invented, also none as Synthyroid
but didn't start to become popular until the late nineteen seventies and
through the eighties. This was due to the fact that quality control was not
what it should of been for natural desiccated thyroid products in the early
seventies, therefore the companies and makers of the synthetic hormone took
advantage of this and pushed how safe their product was compared to natural
thyroid products. The makers of Armour, Forest Pharmaceutical, follows the same guide lines as the makers of synthetic hormone drug companies, the National Pharmacopeia Commission, which has to follow strict guidelines.
Some
patients whom now was being prescribed synthetic thyroid hormone, was starting
to notice all kinds of nasty symptoms such as:
Dry Skin
Hair Falling Out
Fatigue
Cold Feeling
Trouble Sleeping
Anxiety
Depression
Weight Gain
And a host of other symptoms
Patients
started to educate themselves, and soon learnt that synthetic thyroid hormone,
known to doctors as, "T4 Hormone", might be the cause of these nasty
symptoms. Your thyroid naturally produces five hormones, T1, T2, T3, T4, and
calcitonin. The two major hormones I want to bring to your concern is T3, and
T4. T4 is your body's thyroid storage hormone. T3 is what your body uses to
break down nutrients and send the energy to every cell in your body, it is your
active thyroid hormone. When your body needs more T3 hormone, it takes from
your T4 hormone and converts it to T3 hormone. What the wise doctor's in the
nineteen fifties decided was, if one takes the proper amount of T4 only
hormone, then the body will convert it into T3. What they didn't take into
account was, that your body naturally produces a small amount of T3 hormone
along with converting T4 into T3. This is where one who is taking a T4 hormone
replacement, might be getting some of the symptoms he or she is having. One
wants to make sure they have an adequate and exact amounts of these two thyroid
hormones. I do not want to imply that Synthyroid or any other T4 hormone
replacement drugs are terrible bad, some patients have taken these drugs for
years, and do just fine.
I
had my thyroid removed at a very young age, and had been prescribed Synthyroid
for a little over twenty years. Seven to ten years ago, I began noticing
several symptoms, dry skin, depression, anxiety, dry hair, trouble sleeping,
apathy, and the biggest one was fatigue. I had been to the doctor no telling
how many times, my number one complaint was fatigue. He done everything under
the sun, I tried anti-depressants, sleep apnea test, a sleep study, blood panel
test, you name it.
My
mother had checked out a book at the library and gave it to me to read. I began
reading it, and found it very interesting. It drove me to want to educate
myself about my thyroid situation, and help me to understand it and work with
my doctor. Before then I had just been letting my doctor run the show, and now
I realize that was wrong of me, it's your body, its your life, and you have a
right to that, don't give your doctor all your power.
The
end of 2013, I was taking two different doses to Levothyroixine, generic form
of Synthyroid, because on each one for a number of months, the low dose my
levels would be high, and on the higher dose, my levels would be low, so I
asked to combine them. My doctor agreed to let me take the higher dose twice a
week and the lower dose the remaining part of the week. This began to cause problems,
and finally in February of 2014, I called my doctor and asked to do something
different. I'm thirty two years old as of right now, and I had gotten to a
point where I felt like I was going to die. I had no energy what so ever, and
began living my life laying on my couch. I wanted to do things but when I did,
a few minutes later I was beat dead tired.
I
had read about Armour Thyroid in the several thyroid books I had read to help
educate myself but I was to scared to switch. One day going to see my doctor,
the receptionist and I began talking after I had told her I was dying from
fatigue. She told me that she had recently had her thyroid radiated and had
tried Synthyroid and did not like it. She asked her oncologist to switch her to
Armour, and said she loved it, it gave her her old life back. Later I asked my
doctor to switch me to Armour, and though he didn't want to, he let me do it.
Doctors I believe are taught not to promote Armour Thyroid, and to push
synthetics the most they can. My doctor I began to see had no experience dosing
patients using Armour and I asked to be referred to the oncologist that the receptionist
had told me she had seen recently.
I've
now been on Armour for several months now, and I must say, it changed things
for me from black to white. Before starting Armour, I would of rated my overall
well being thirty out of one hundred percent, and now I can surely say ninety
five out of one hundred percent. The first thing I began to notice was softer
skin and hair. Later I started sleeping so much better and things continue to
keep improving.
If
your having or noticing some symptoms from taking Synthyroid or other synthetic
thyroid hormone replacement drugs, you may want to consider giving natural
desiccated thyroid a try. I totally understand and respect those for not trying
it for those who find it against your religion due because its derived from
pigs. And a finally note, we are all different individuals, so therefore I must
say, what works for one person, may or may not work for other. But if you are
in the state I had gotten to, giving it a try with a doctors supervision, is
worth the try.
I
want to thank you for reading this blog post today, and folks, I hope to see
you back here next time, I want to thank you for reading this Tectip Channel
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