Have you ever read or heard of someone complaining because their script for thyroid hormone

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8. They only go by the TSH test.

They refuse to do other tests of thyroid hormones. The TSH is a test of thyroid stimulating hormone, released by the pituitary to kick start the thyroid. Apparently they don't want to do all those other tests that would give us more information.


I've had Hashimoto's disease, the autoimmune version of hypothyroidism, since I was pre-adolescent. I was told I was "tired" and "lazy" because after school, starting in junior high, I had to come home and take a nap for three hours, then get up and eat dinner because I was exhausted all the time. I slept 12 hours on weekends. Yet nobody figured this out, after I was on 2 grains a day of Armour. And I refuse to let the doctors change me from Armour to Synthroid. However, I can't get any of them to run those blood tests for more information. The med school professors tell the students that Armour is "inconsistent in dosage" and other such things. I know of no other medication that they bad-mouth.


I once shut up a board-certified endocrinologist. This was about 40 years ago. He gave me the usual bull "Armour isn't good, the dosage isn't consistent, blah blah".

I said, "I read the label. It said 'Biologically assayed, United States Pharmacopoeia".

He shut up. The USP is an independent organization that measures the purity and reliability of prescription drugs.

Asshole.

Places to talk about this: www.stopthethyroidmadness.com

Mary Shomon: http://thyroid.about.com