letter to doc

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Hi

Can somebody please direct me to the letter to take to a gp requesting they

prescribe natural thyroid hormone, I am trying to find it on behalf of a friend

Thanks

Sue

[Guest guest]

Sue - this is under 'Information for Patients' FOLDER in our

Files Section of this Forum. I take it that your friend is already taking

natural thyroid extract. NHS doctors are allowed to prescribe Armour thyroid,

Erfa Thyroid, Nature Throid and Westhroid if their patients are not doing well

on levothyroxine sodium-only, so long as they are happy to take full responsibility

for this as thyroid extract remains unlicensed in the UK. Check out the

attached responses to me from the MHRA when I asked them the question as to

whether NHS doctors could prescribe these or not.

HOW DO I

TELL MY GP I AM TAKING ARMOUR THYROID AND NOT LEVOTHYROXINE?

I have found the best way is to be open and honest. It will come

out one day so get it out of the way now and then you can get on with your

life. Here is a list of what I would do.

·

Tell him like it is. As he is not prescribing it and you intend to

go on using it anyway, why wouldn't you tell him/her.

·

Send him/her a letter, specifically to tell him that because you

still felt so unwell when you were prescribed levothyroxine alone, and because

many of the symptoms would not go away, you decided to research to find what

might be the reason why, and you found out about thyroid extract that used to

be the ONLY medication for ALL sufferers of hypothyroidism before the synthetic

levothyroxine was manufactured.

·

Tell him/her you never realised before you researched that the

synthetic thyroxine (T4) is only ONE of the thyroid hormones and that this T4

is a mainly inactive hormone anyway and that it has to convert to the active

dominant hormone T3.

·

Tell him/her you didn't realise that it was the dominant hormone

T3 your body needed and not T4.

·

Tell him/her that you had found through research that some people

have a problem in converting this mainly inactive T4 to the active T3 so you

wondered whether your answer might be in trying a thyroid hormone replacement

like natural Armour Thyroid because that contains T4,T3,T2,T1 and calcitonin.

Tell him/her you found that it is

not licensed in the UK but that Armour Thyroid has been approved by the FDA

because as it meets all the specifications required by the United States

Pharmacopoeia (USP).

·

Tell him/her you didn't want to bother him because you felt he

would want you to continue with the mainstream protocol of NHS treating with T4

only and that he might deny you a trial, so you felt the need to go ahead and

gave yourself a trial to see if it would work better than levothyroxine.

·

Tell him/her that you have learned that when you are taking all

the thyroid hormones your body requires, there is no need for any thyroid

stimulating hormone, so the results of any TSH blood tests would show this was

completely suppressed

·

Tell him/her that some doctors believe that thyroid hormones that

suppress TSH is dangerous because they believe it causes Atrial fibrillation

and bone thinning, but this has never been proven, so you are not at all

worried.

·

Tell him/her that to this day, patients with thyroid cancer who

are given doses intentionally to suppress their TSH do very well on such a

regime

·

Tell him/her that in 2004, after a review of the scientific literature,

‘The US Preventative Services Task Force’ (a leading authority)

addressed this question, and concluded that despite the multitude of studies -

there remains NO PROOF THAT LOW OR NO TSH IS DANGEROUS.

(Arthritis.Rheum. 2001. October 45.5: 462-7)

·

Tell him/her you would like your letter to be placed into your

medical notes and ask him if he would discuss the points you have raised with

the other people concerned.

·

Tell him/her to check on Thyroid patient Advocacy web site www.tpa-uk.org.uk

·

Tell him to check out the attached document 'How to Treat using

Natural Thyroid Extract' if he has not prescribed it before.

If s/he refuses outright to

prescribe it for you, ask him/her, because you are feeling so much better, if

s/he would monitor you while you are taking natural thyroid extract.

See what results from that and let's hope s/he is a kind,

considerate, understanding doctor who cares for his patients. The General

Medical Council state in their 'Good Practice Guidelines' that doctors should

listen to their patients and work with them, so now will be your chance to find

out whether yours will do this.

Luv - Sheila

Hi

Can somebody please direct me to the letter to take to a gp requesting they

prescribe natural thyroid hormone, I am trying to find it on behalf of a friend

Thanks

Sue

3 of 3 File(s)

MHRAletter.doc

MHRA confirmation re Natur1.doc

HOW TO TREAT WITH NATURAL THYROID EXTRACT.doc