OT: (Re: Dr. Vliet on Blogtalkradio.com)

[Guest guest]

In the winter it totally SUCKS up here, like right now. ACK!

I'm not a lover of snow...in any way shape or form.

But, the good thing is that the moment I get over the border

into Canada the roads will be completely clear.

In the summer, this place is the Garden of Eden.

Sam :-D

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> I envy you Sam. I would to love to live where you do. My whole life I

> have dreamed of living somewhere in the Pacific N.W.

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> I'll bet that will be a beautiful drive.

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> Gale, in Texas transplanted form Calif.

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> k9gang@... wrote: Thank you.

> <grinning>

> I am going to drive thru new snow (arg) and

> get to Vancouver Canada today, because there's

> a chocolate cake waiting for me there.

>

> Later

>

> Sam :-D

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> > Have a wonderful Birthday Sam!!!

> >

> > Gale

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> > k9gang@... wrote: PRION

> content,

> > " big spirts " of T3, and not bioidentical, eh? Oh brother.

> > I have heard so many bizarre " stories " about Armour that I could fill

> a

> > book with more pages than War and Peace. Armour is simply desiccated

> > porcine thyroids. I like to call it a thyroid gland in a pill - that's

> > really all it is. I can't believe the horror on some doc's faces when

> > pateints say " I want to take Armour Thyroid " . It's almost like they

> mess

> > their pants and have seizures over it. You shold see what they do when

> I

> > tell them I'm on 11+ grains (660mg) - it's like their heads spin

> around

> > and then explode.

> >

> > You have TSI abs? That's an iodine deficiency thing.

> >

> > Sam

> > (I am 56 today and I'm going to go party like a wild woman)

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> > > Hey Sam:

> > > Yes, I do know..That is the FIRST thing she did..take me off Armour

> > > and put me on Synthroid and SR T3. She doesn't like Armour because

> > > of the prion contamination, big " spurts " of T3, and she feels that

> > > pts eventually develop either higher Ab counts or Ab's against the

> > > hormone itself (this is something that is in research mode). I

> > > don't think that this is the case for me. Armour does something for

> > > me that nothing else does (maybe due to the T1, T2 and calcitonin).

> > > One of the compounding pharmacies here doesn't like Armour either

> > > and compares it to Premarin saying it is not bioidentical. There

> > > are pharmacies that are compounding SR T4 AND T3 and claiming that

> > > they are " bioidentical " . What I'd love to see is a compounded

> > > Armour-like med that included it all.

> > > I told Vliet that until we got the why's and wherefore's around

> > > excess androgen secretion and TSI Ab increase figured out that I

> > > needed the Armour, it's the only thing that is keeping the

> > > depression at bay.

> > > Avi

> > >

> > >

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> > >> You do know Vliet uses synthroid instead of disiccated thyroid,

> > > right?

> > >> One of the gals in my thyroidless group was quite adamant about not

> > >> continuing to be her patient for that very reason.

> > >>

> > >> Bioidentical sex hormones but not bioidentical thyroid hormones.

> > > That

> > >> bothers me.

> > >>

> > >> Sam

> > >> (thyroidless, ovaryless, uterusless)

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> > >> > I saw Vliet. I loved her books found that most of what she said

> > >> > made sense and since I was a " special " case, pulled my money

> > >> > together and went out to see her. Anyone following this board

> > > will

> > >> > have a rudimentary understanding of my issues

> > > (Graves/Hashimoto's,

> > >> > elevated androgens, etc.). I am really no better off and have

> > >> > decided to pursue other avenues of healing for right now. Will

> > > be

> > >> > glad to go into detail through PM with anybody interested.

> > >> > Avi

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