Dear BK and Other Listers:   From my own experience and reading, I believe
everyone would do well to insist upon Armour Thyroid for whatever apparent
thyroid malfunction they are experiencing,  even if nothing shows up  in lab
tests.    The fact that Synthroid provides only TR4 is reason enough to
avoid it.  My own personal theory, based on nothing but what I've induced by
reading, is that claims that Synthroid "works" are unfounded because
patients in whom it is not working could be thinking too foggily to know it,
or to report it to their physicians.   There is no better test than how a
patient is feeling.  What is lost by  switching to Armour?  At least we gain
the assurance of receiving the full thryoid hormone instead of a synthetic
product that provides only part of it.  Perhaps I'm speaking out of turn
here, but I suffered so long from altered consciousness on Synthroid, cured
almost immediately by a switch to the right dose of Armour, that I fail to
see why anyone tolerates being prescribed Synthroid in the face of such
evidence that it does not work.  The people for whom it is not working seem
to be the last ones to realize it.   Edith




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