Re: quality of life issues now or osteoporosis later--MY MOTHER

[Guest guest]

I haven't read this thread well, but wanted to state that even

though my mother paid a huge price being on T4-only meds for most of

her adult life, she never had osteoporosis that I know of. She was

certainly qualified to have had it--her depression was severe enough

that she opted for shock treatment, and her stamina was poor enough

that she could never do what others did without suffering. She

always had constipation. The latter three issues were certainly due

to poor treatment with T4.

Why she never got osteoporosis? I can see T4-biased, Synthroid-paid

researchers taking someone like my mother and insisting that T4-only

meds (or the lack of a complete treatment like Armour) do not

contribute to osteoporosis, BECAUSE here is this woman who lived to

age 84 without it, and having been on T4 most of her life. And they

would be full of bull.

You'd also HAVE to take into account excellent genes, that fact that

she loved milk, that she religiously took calcium supplements, and

ate like a nutritionist........and all the latter because she was

quite lucky in her decisions since no one EVER suspected what we

KNOW NOW about T4-only meds.

Janie