Thyroid

Armour vs Desiccated Thyroid
As the Canadian supply of desiccated thyroid is still in limbo I purchased some Armour Thyroid in North Dakota this weekend. Armour smells different! Years ago I had heard that desiccated thyroid was from cattle. The specs for Armour state it is porcine. Perhaps that is why there is a difference in the odour. Does... 23 Oct 2005 13:31

New Approach 4 me....
I still have hypo symptoms, even though labs say I should be hunky dory. My next approach is...I want to totally suppress TSH and then take enough T3 until I feel well. Anybody else doing this? .. ... 15 Oct 2005 20:38

Goiter
Hi, Please tell me why everyone refers to a Goiter as "Just a goiter". I have a goiter and 2 growths in it. And this bothers me and scares me. Why does everyone play it down. I understand there is much worse but this to isn't normal. Kathy ... 7 Oct 2005 20:47

opinions on symptoms and dosing
I have been dealing with health issues for about a year now and in the Spring I was diagnosed with Hashimoto's. My First TSH was 3.4 UIU/ML (that was back in Jan and was labeled as normal and dismissed). The next two were 2.8 and 2.34. My Endo has upped my replacement dosage each appointment and I am now up to ... 7 Oct 2005 20:47

Book
I am rather suspicious of anyone putting out conspiracy theories. We're supposed to buy this book which tells us 'What your doctor doesn't tell you'. Are we to believe that there's a secret cabal of doctors out there, who know but won't tell. You go to visit your doctor, you're sick, you need help, he kno... 7 Oct 2005 20:47

Anyone else feel worse on Armour
HI there - I started this thread as I was beginnig to feel a freak. I started Armour as I had never felt quite right on Levothyroxine. For the first few months I felt absolutely brilliant and even ot T-Shirts printed with the slogan "ArmourRocks" -that's how convnced I was that it was the answer to all my ills! H... 7 Oct 2005 20:47

Bad reaction to T3
hello, haven't posted here before so I'll include a bit of back story first. I first got ill when I was in University, with chronic fatigue and aching throat/neck which was diagnosed as Glandular Fever which flared up in cyclical way for a couple of years. Later in my 20s I began to suffer symptoms of hypothryoi... 7 Oct 2005 20:47

Pulsatile tinnitus
I started having pulsatile tinnitus just before Christmas last year. I am able to stop the noise my gently holding my fingers on my neck. I also periodically feel lightheadedness that makes me feel nauseous. I discovered in Feb. that I had Thyroid Cancer and had my TT on April 25. I am on .125 Levothyroxine. M... 7 Oct 2005 20:47

Science and medicine -- Re: Levoxyl as Sleeping Pill?
>Have you read "Thyroid Disease Manager" and www.thyroidmanager.org? I have a hardcopy of an earlier version of the deGroot, Larsen, Stansibury (?sp) & Retifcoff (?sp) text; I have perma-links to the site and I have downloaded PDFs for the on-line version of the edition. I also picked up a few other hardcopy books ... 7 Oct 2005 20:46

Itchy skin over thyroid after dose changed
Does anyone here get itchy skin over the thyroid area after having your Synthroid dose changed? ... 7 Oct 2005 20:46