Mmmaurshmallows
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Ray has written about the benefits of dessicated thyroid and the dangers of pure T4.
Hi Haidut,
Thanks for posting this. I am trying to convince my mom to switch to dedicated thyroid aftr 40 years of Synthroid and 5 years of Levythyroxine (Do you know the difference between these 2 drugs?)
She believes they essentially killed her thyroid during the testing of it under the swaying machine. She has spent the last 25 years of her life going to docs to try to solve her 'mystery illness'. I strongly suspect she is really suffering from low level hypothyroidism. Her symptoms are:
1. Retinal tear, which caused legal blindness
2. Worsening Deafness
3. Low body temp
4. Insomnia
5. Waking up to pee at night
6. IBS, poor bowel control
7. Terrible dizziness, weakness, and imbalance
8. Neuropathy...numbness, tingling
9. Dementia
10. Mild heart attack
11. Tempural arteritis
12. Etc (can't remember the rest)
She is convinced most her symptoms are due to a car accident 25 years ago where she was rear-ended while looking behind her. Has to do with her c-spine. Slowly I've been putting the pieces of the puzzle together that her illnesses are thyroid related. But she refuses to listen to me, and I know this is her growing demented mind talking.
As a side note, when you look at her history with modern medicine and all the tests, surgeries, and drugs they've done to her it's clear she would probably be a much healthier and happier person had she never gone to them. It's definitely been the domino affect for her for 50 years...each of their interventions making her worse. She has been admitted to the hospital a few times in recent years for just a couple days, and each time her mental state (from the drugs) is clearly worse. I keep telling her to please stop going to the ER, and definitely refuse to be admitted!
Could she try the desiccated thyroid while still on Synthroid, or is it important to work with a specialist doing this? I know of an internist who takes Medicare and prescribes Armour (I believe). But then again, I'm hating Big Med, and I don't want to throw her to the wolves again.
Thanks for your help!