Stop the Thyroid Madness: A Patient Revolution Against Decades of Inferior Treatment

GET OFF T4 MEDS AS QUICKLY AS YOU CAN!After being on Synthroid and every other T4 only name brands....it almost completely destroyed my immune system!A year ago my doc told me my cholesterol was at massive heart attack levels...300 LDL over 30 HDL. Then she informed me that I had almost no white blood & T cells!!!!Then she told me she wanted to get me on cholestoral lowering meds, but also wanted me to boost my immune system by eating fattening yogurt.:-/Look people...anyone suffering from Hypothyroidism....get off the T4 meds now!!! Before it does any more damage to your health! Its killing you...even if you aren't overtly aware of it, make no mistake, its burying you slowly but surely.My biggest regret is that I didn't switch off the snake oil placebo garbage T4 meds sooner!Get your desiccated thyroid meds by any means necessary.Why doesn't T4 only meds work? Because the conversion from T4 to T3 thyroid hormones will never ever be enough to give you a proper and healthy daily dose of 100% needed T3 hormone, that's why.Like, to give you an analogy, if I were to tell you that you could lve with only stored vitamin A....and that you didn't need a direct flux of vitamin A in your bloodstream along with stored vitamin A on a daily basis.... that if your body needs a direct flux of vitamin A in your bloodstream, your body will just convert some of that stored vitamin A into active vitamin A and that will be enough....would you believe me???Of course not!!! That's preposterous! Of course you & everyone else need both stored vitamin A and a direct flux of vitamin A! If we didn't need a direct flux of active vitamin A in our system on a daily basis then we wouldn't need to eat every day to maintain our health & life.Of course you wouldn't believe me...as you shouldn't if i tried to sell you that crockery.Then why do hypothyroid sufferers believe their endocrinologists when they try to sell them that snake oil nonsense that the human body's conversion of T4 to T3 is enough to maintain a healthy life?It's BS.Total BS.And the endocrinologists know it!They know synthroid and the other T4 only meds don't work!Its not that they don't know...its that they don't care!Do not make the mistake in wrongly thinking that the doctors are on your side(their patient).Don't make the mistake in thinking the doctors have your best interest(your optimal health) as their first priority. Its not.Their first priority...is making money.Medicine...is a practice. A business practice. They aren't & didn't become doctors out of the kindness of their hearts.Its a business. Period.They are NOT going to prescribe what works best in treating your condition, they are going to prescribe to you what benefits them(their finances)first.As long as the pharmaceutical companies that make this synthetic thyroid garbage keeps handing out massive monetary grants to endocrinologists, and to their licensing boards...they are going to keep trying to feed people this T4 only garbage.Since the desiccated thyroid extract makers don't give out these large monetary grants to the endocrinological communities like the synthetic drug companies...the endocrinologists have no concern in writing out prescriptions for desiccated thyroid drugs. Even if they know full well desiccated works, while T4 only synthetics do not.Why don't desiccated thyroid drug makers just buy off the medical community like the synthetic makers do?One reason. They just can't afford to. Better put, they can't offer the same amount of money as the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical companies that produce synthetic drugs.See,...the real money in making drugs isn't in the production and sale of these drugs...its in the patents. Since desiccated thyroid extract is a natural drug...and since you CAN'T patent nature...hence why they don't make much money. The money is in moving molecule A to co-join to molecule B, then patenting that manipulation of molecules...that is where the real money is at. Since by patenting that new chemical, you can keep others from making the same exact product and monopolize profits. That's why synthetic makers make so much more in profits. Hence why desiccated drug manufacturers can't compete with the synthetic thyroid hormone makers in being buying off the endocrinological community's favoratisms.Long story short...there's tons of corruption in the endocrinological field of medicine.And the ones who see the short end, is us, the hypothyroidism sufferers.Sythroid and all T4 only meds should be banned and made against the law!Or...if an endocrinologist is going to prescribe it...they must must must prescribe it with cytomel...which is a sythetic form of T3 hormone.But,...since the only company that makes T3 synthetic hormone is a mexican pharmaceutical company that i think...holds the patent and refuses to allow anyone else in making T3 synthetics...AND....since they don't or haven't yet seemed to buy/pay off the endocrinological community in the usa....you can forget about your endo doc prescribing you cynomel with synthroid. Even though that is the only way to make T4 meds work.:-/IE,your doc is only going to prescribe whatever he/she is paid to prescribe by drug manufacturers....regardless if it works or not. Whether it works or not is the least of their concerns...just like your health.Wake up, like I did...and get off the T4 only garbage. Before its too late and your health slides even further.I've been on desiccated for a year now.What a difference between desiccated thyroid extract and sythetic T4 crap.The difference between day & night.Between heaven & hell.I only wish I had switched sooner. I would be feeling even better.Still working on boosting my immune system though. It takes longer than a year to fix the damage T4 only meds did to my immune system.Lastly,any endos handing out T4 only meds...instead of desiccated like the should be, or at least T3 sythetic(cytomel) with T4 meds...if you are prescribing just T4 only meds to your patients to treat hypothyroid.....when every single endo knows full well by know that T4 only treatment doesn't work....BIH.A pox on you. And on your families.May you suffer for the crimes you commit. the crime of being more concerned with your wallets instead of your patient's health.note:any incorrect spelling is due to me speed typing since i got other things to do today, sorry about that. not willing to spell check right now. gotta go

I truly appreciate this book and the doctor recommendations on the website. I was going to an endocrinologist recommended in my area, but I found a local GP who is wonderful.The test border numbers for blood pressures, diabetes, and cholesterol have been consistently moved downward to catch these diseases earlier, but this has never been done with the numbers for thyroid conditions - and untreated hypothyroid can cause extensive organ damage, including to the heart as well as midline obesity and all the myriad problem THAT brings with it, including early death.I have been fed up over the years with doctors who have had the "healer" squeezed right out of them in their pharmaceutically-financed educations. My doctor, who actually listens and thinks, rather than just looking up numbers in a list or book, prescribed Armour for me based on SYMPTOMS (what a novel idea! - if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck - it might just be a duck!). He even commented that many doctors treat by test numbers instead of symptoms, and that people are not all the same and that symptoms and quality of life matter (how did I get so lucky?).I avoid medications as much as possible, and take VERY few for my age (68). I believe whole-heartedly in wholistic approaches and taking synthetic T4 only, or separately adding synthetic T3 only, rather than taking a natural dessicated thyroid containing naturally balanced components that you don't get with the synthetics. There is a synergy in everything we consume - calcium doesn't absorb properly without magnesium, for example. All the thyroid components interact together to function properly, which is no doubt why ALL symptoms are not addressed with synthetics, but are addressed with dessicated thyroid. I started on Armour about 4 weeks ago, but I started very slow, 1/4 grain for 2 weeks, than 1/2, now 3/4, which is still very low, but already I'm feeling better. Some symptoms have improved: I can concentrate better, I don't feel as extremely fatigued or so apathetic - I have actually started going to an exercise program "Silver Sneakers" for retirees.It breaks my heart to think I could have been here 15 years ago (and been spared the years of suffering and physical damage) if I had had a decent doctor, or the information provided in this book. This author has done much more research on these issues than most doctors are willing to do and also speaks from years of experience. I've read comments (from defensive medical people) that say the author's advice is "dangerous" (treating oneself when the medical community fails one), but I couldn't disagree more (and my doctor also), because going to lazy doctors and leaving hypothyroid UN-treated for 15 years is FAR more dangerous to your health and life than taking matters into your own hands after researching and informing yourself. Of course, finding a supportive doctor is the best alternative, but leaving hypothyroid UN-treated is the worst alternative for your health and life.I would recommend beginning VERY slowly, as this avoids any heart palpitations as your body adjusts. I know they go away, but I prefer to allow my body to adjust very slowly, so they don't happen at all. I am so grateful for this book. The medical community often treats the rest of us as though we were imbeciles and should regard them as final authorities. I just cannot do that, I have to understand what is going on before I can acquiesce to a treatment. I skipped the last 3 years of high school, and began at USC when I was 14 years old, and graduated with honors in computer science. I actually retired early because I was so fatigued and my concentration was flagging. If I had had a REAL healer doctor, I would have worked years longer and might yet be working. My previous doctors (except one in Atlanta, 20 years ago) have been less intelligent than I am and too arrogant to listen to a patient's research or opinions. My current doctor answers all my questions, listens to me, and freely shares his knowledge, as well as respects mine. If he doesn't know something, he isn't afraid to say so and then finds the information. I trust and respect him and I am grateful to have been given the courage to search until I found him. I have a flyer from AARP that says to be "an old cuss" patient and insist on the care you deserve. But I haven't had to do that. In fact, I feel so much better going into his office with his great staff, that my blood pressure has dropped from 180/90 to 124/71. I think my BP measured high because I was so frustrated and angry every time I went into my prior doctors' offices, with their "officious" staff and arrogant attitudes.I am grateful for this book - it has helped me make my life worth living again. Thank you.