switching to Armour

[Guest guest]

I understand that you are supposed to leave a 5-day min. gap between

stopping thyroxine and stating Armour.

Is this correct? The thought of any length of time on 'nothing' worries

me!

[Guest guest]

Hi

Have you talked to your GP about changing

to as natural thyroid extract (Armour Thyroid, USP) because you feel you need

all the thyroid hormones replaced? If not, do this as he might be interested in

this. If he is concerned, he should refer you to an endocrinologist so you can

talk to him/her about the possibility of a switch-over. We have lots of

information in our FILES and you might want to copy the TPA-UK response

to the BTA's Statement on Armour Thyroid they have on their website and take it

to show your doctor. I say this because your doctor/endocrinologists may

already have read their statement, not realising how terribly misleading, and

in parts, completely incorrect the BTA statement is. Doctors are not even

checking to see whether the BTA info. is correct, and believe it to be so - but

they need to see our rebuttal with the many references to the research and

studies done to show this.

If you get nowhere with either your GP or

endocrinologist, then we can help you, but first, you must read everything that

you can and thoroughly understand the difference between treating patients with

a synthetic, mainly inactive, hormone and treating patients with all the

natural thyroid hormones. Any questions you need to ask (and there will be

many)- just shout, and somebody will come along to try to answer them.

Go to our website www.tpa-uk.org.uk

and click on 'Hypothyroidism' in the Menu, and in the drop down Menu, click on

'Associated Conditions' Read about these, because if you are suffering from any

of these, this could be the reason you are not absorbing the levothyroxine you

are taking and why you have the symptoms you do. Ask your GP to test your

ferritin level (stored iron), B12, Vitamin D, copper, magnesium and zinc. If

any of these are low, they need supplementing before your thyroid hormones will

start to work.

Luv - Sheila

i am on 100mcg of t4 only at the moment and i am experiencing hair loss

and extreme coldness in my limbs i would like to switch to armour what

will the dose be ?

thanks