Armour Thyroid info

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I was given Armour Thyroid by my doctor (some years ago) and after reading

the INSERT, I never used it. This is relation to Diabetes and Heart Disease

under Precautions.

" Thyroid hormone should be used with great caution in a number of

circumstances where the integrity of the cardiovascular system,

particularly, the coronary arteries is suspected. These include patients

with angina pectoris or the elderly, in whom there is a greater likelihood

of occult cardiac disease. In these patients therapy should be initiated

with low doses, i.e., 15-30 mg. Armour Thyroid. When, in such patients, a

euthyroid state can only be reached at the expense of an aggravation of the

cardiovascular disease, thyroid hormone dosage should be reduced.

Thyroid hormone therapy in patients with concomitant diabetes mellitus or

diabetes insipidus or ADRENAL CORTICAL INSUFFIENCY aggravates the intensity

of their symptoms. Appropriate adjustments of the various thereapeutic

measures directed at these concomitant endocrine diseases are required. The

therapy of myxedema coma requires simultaneous administration of

GLUCOCORTICOIDS.

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