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They are pretty useless. I have told several endocrinologists I've had burnout for years and years, hated my jobs, hated the stress, hated people, jumped about a foot in the air when the phone rang at work, and I got IGNORED TOTALLY. This all got really bad about twenty years ago.
And they would be horrified if I was taking cortisone every day. (Which I am NOT).
I've got my thyroid under control and I refuse to take Synthroid even though they repeat the same lies about "well your dosage isn't regulated with Armour" to which I replied "I read the damn label. It says 'biologically assayed, United States Pharmacopoeia'".
To which Dr. Board Certified Endocrinologist Deity SHUT UP. This was probably 35 years ago.
I think a lot of people have exhausted adrenals due to burnout and that some form of supplementation is necessary.
My blood pressure is controlled.
WHen my allergies are bad, cortisone makes the diff between me lying in bed being completely exhausted and useless, and being vertical and functional. I much prefer vertical and functional.
FYI, those people are self medicating because they KNOW they are tired and sick and their doctors refuse to treat them, go strictly by the TSH numbers rather than their symptoms, and LIE to their patients about Armour Thyroid and various other things. And it's either self-medicate or DIE or STAY IN BED YOUR ENTIRE LIFE from lack of treatment. Those are not good options.
I had an idiot doc in San Antonio take me completely OFF thyroid when I was in college. I had brain fog so I didn't know any better. Well, I could barely crawl out of bed after five years, and I went to a D.O. who said I was within a month of going into a coma and dying. He also said I had the worst case of myxedema (swollen face and neck due to fluid retention) he had ever seen.
He also let me titrate my dosage -- start with 1 grain, go up gradually to 8 and back down to what I felt good at, which is four grains.
This guy took a hair sample and they bombard it to get emission spectra, I think, to see what elements you have in your hair. If they are in your hair, your body is not absorbing them. I had bones you could see through on an x ray and I was not thirty years old yet.
Turned out I had TWENTY TIMES more Calcium in my hair than i should have, because without the thyroid hormone I was not assimilating my minerals.
So I'm not gonna stop taking the stuff.
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