Pain and armour thyroid

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Some of you have really suffered from alot of pain. I wonder if taking Armour thyroid would help with fibromyalgia symptoms? Dr. Lowe believes that.... Here is an interesting testimony from Gail's Thyroid Tips website. This is just a partial blurb, because this page is really long! http://personal.bellsouth.net/w/u/wurmstei/ --T3 is taken up by the cells and used for protein synthesis. Protein synthesis means the actual

building of cells (to replace dead cells, fix damaged cells, and make new cells). So you see, T3 is needed to maintain the tissues of our body. --T2 is taken up by the cells and acts directly on the mitochondria. The T2 is used to produce ATP. ATP is the fuel for our cells; it is the energy our cells use to function. So you see, T2 is absolutely vital for the cells to function. Yes, it is true that a healthy thyroid gland does not make very much T2. But certain cells in the body depend on it. http://physiology.cup.cam.ac.uk/JPhysiol/1997/505p2/7060/7060 This

would explain why so much of your overall body pain goes away when you take Armour and are thus getting plenty of T2; without T2 your cells are starving for ATP. I experienced this firsthand myself; when I switched to Armour most of my pain was relieved. I immediately told my hypothyroid sister who has been on 100 mcg synthroid plus 100 mcg of cytomel daily and still hurting all over (100 mcg cytomel is FOUR TIMES the normal daily dose!). She lowered the two synthetic hormones to 75 mcg each and added in a grain of Armour; her body aching improved tremendously within 2 weeks. Even though this provided her with LESS oral T3 intake than she had before, nearly all of her fibromyalgia disappeared! She was left only with some foot and leg pain on one side, but the rest of her body was completely better. We all know that Dr. Lowe has recommended using T3 to cure those pains (fibromyalgia) and he is right. (http://thyroid.about.com/health/thyroid/library/weekly/aa042799.htm). The T3 is VITAL. However, I offer up my sister as proof that it is more than just T3 we need to use. I have no proof of this, but I believe that it is the T2 (and perhaps the T1---no one has figured out what it does yet) in Armour which produces the kinds of results she had. I myself was on only synthroid last year, but at Christmas I took some of my sister’s cytomel. There was a minor improvement in my fibromyalgia but I still hurt all over. However, when I switched to Armour in January, my pain went away almost instantly (all except my feet, which were cured by supporting my adrenals) even though I was getting less oral T3 from the Armour than I had taken over Christmas with cytomel. Dr. Lowe states that it can take months or even years to undo

the fibromyalgia using T3, but he feels it is the cure. I plan to write him a letter and tell him the story of my sister and me and also include the research on T2 which I have found. My sister and I had lived with our pain for years, and for both of us, it was alleviated in less than a month using natural thyroid. T3 breaks down into T2, but the body cannot perform that transformation without deiodinase. I have found research suggesting that cells need some T2 directly from the thyroid gland in order to make deiodinase at all. I wonder if Dr. Lowe’s treatment with oral T3 takes so long because the cells have such trouble converting the T3 into T2. I have no proof of any of this, but I think it warrants research. And if you are a thyroid patient with aches and pains, it’s worth trying natural thyroid to see if it will go away. Here is another article proving that T2 is a

metabolically active hormone: (Please go to her site to read it)

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