Re: Grandfathered drugs BANNED by the FDA!

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Dear ,

It will be a drive, but I know for a fact that the Bradenton Sam's

Club still had the 60mg/1grain of Armour left. I believe they said

they had 290 pills left and they also had some of the drug I take,

thyroid, but he didn't have time to see how many he had of those.

The Sam's Club in Lakeland was going to TRY to order another bottle,

but wasn't sure if it was available. That will also be for the

thyroid...NOT Armour. There is another Sam's Club in Lakeland...you

might try there, too. That's a lot closer to you than Bradenton.

I know that you can go back to Cytomel, but I can't take the

chemicals and it's really scaring me.

I hope that this is horrible misinformation, but when I see that

you've been notified by the AARP that Armour is a banned drug and

I've also heard from another lady that she was told by her health

insurance provider to have her doctor switch her from Armour to

Levothyroxine because Armour is banned? I have a sinking feeling

about this.

Some people are saying there is NO way that the FDA would ban a drug

that was so important for people's health without giving them an

alternative AND a warning. Well, the only " warning " I got was when

I went New Year's Eve Day to get a refill on my medicine and my

pharmacist told me she couldn't get that drug anymore. Later that

day after phoning all over God's green earth, I found out from the

distributor/manufacturer of thyroid---Qualitest/Vintage----that they

were no longer making thyroid because the FDA had banned them from

making it without FDA approval.

If they can BAN the dessicated thyroid that I take...I would not

rest so easy that they can't do the same with Armour.

, I do understand that there have been many rumors thoughout

the years about banning/recalling/etc. of thyroid drugs and I can

understand how regular joe's out here would blow this off

as " nothing, " but I'm a little taken-aback that the fact that I can

no longer get the best medicine for me because of this ban and I'm

trying to spread the word that from everything I've seen and been

told that Armour is on it's way out, too? That the people who run

some of these groups and websites, wouldn't look over the

information that I've sent them and really look into it instead of

posting " all is well....don't go overboard. " I wouldn't be so upset

with them if they'd posted: " Let me go over this. Let me check on

this. Let's figure this out. Let's see why you can't get your meds.

etc. " I won't be contacting them anymore and I've deleted myself

from the other yahoo group that I joined after their moderator said

there was NO way the FDA would ban a drug that people need without a

warning WHEN I'M SITTING RIGHT HERE KNOWING THAT THE DRUG I NEED WAS

BANNED WITHOUT ANY WARNING TO ME OR MY PHARMACIST.

I'm at what we call " def-con 10 " in our home: when you're

frantically trying to find out something or get something done

that's so important. Well, I've been at " def-con 10 " since New

Year's Eve Day. Balancing my time between researching this from

every reliable source I can find and getting on the phone and

tracking down more of my medicine to hoard and going and getting

those meds.

I have submitted all the information that I've come up with since

Dec. 31 AND I've transferred my prescription to 10 different

pharmacies to fill a three-month supply.

I will be calling my doctor on Monday to try and get another script

from her to try and get this medicine before they take it off the

shelves. My problem with hoarding it is that it does have an

expiration date: I can only hoard so much before I run into those

expiration dates...

I hope and pray that the information I've found and your information

is wrong. I hope we've been told the biggest lie we've ever been

told. I'll be the first one to come on here and say that I'm so

very glad I was wrong and that what people were telling me was NOT

the truth.

LOL...I'm glad we're not a couple of " loons. "

I'm also awaiting one more phone call from Joan Powers and I sent

off another email to Armour with the AARP info and the info from the

other lady who's insurance won't pay for Armour anymore because it's

banned.

I'll let you know as soon as I hear back from both of them and I

look forward to seeing if you get any responses from our elected

officials.

I might try to call Feeney's office myself if you think it would

help to have another Floridian put in call?

Thanks, .

> I just got back from the Lakeland Sam's Club in

Lakeland, Florida.

> This is 50 miles one way from my home in Clearwater.

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> After they pharmacist gave me my prescription, he said, " Hey.

> Aren't they pulling this medicine? "

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> I hope I'm wrong, people.

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> I want you to know that it has not been my intention to cause

> panic...even though I am very upset. I am not some loon that has

> joined your group to create a ruckus. I have researched this since

> New Year's Eve Day and only came onto these sites when I kept

> getting all the same bad news from everyone.

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> I am a floral designer, a Notary here in Florida, my son is in law

> school, and I've been married for almost 25 years to an electrical

> supervisor for a major contractor in Tampa.

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> Trust me, I don't want this to be happening and I don't have time

to

> put my life on hold while I try to fight this and hoard drugs at

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> same time.

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> I hope that Joan Powers at the FDA is wrong and that the Armour

> thyroid people are right and that Armour continues to be

> manufactured.

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> All the best to you all and I really do pray that I've been given

> horrible misinformation.

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