> Nancy <[log in to unmask]>
>> I had been on the Wilson's protocol for much of the time,
It isn't right for everyone, but for those who it is right for it's a
miracle.
>Two monthsa
> after completing my last cycle of that protocol
While you were cycling, did you take your temp three times a day as
prescribed in Wilson's manual to determine your dose for the next day?
, I started taking Armour at
> 1 gr/day. The pain and stiffness went away after one week. I gradually
> increased my dose to 3 gr day but after labs showed that both my total T4
> and total T3 were well above the range, I decided to decrease to 2.5 gr.
If you were feeling good, why do the labs matter at all? You presume that
the medical personnel who developed the labs were actually basing the tests
on pure scientific knowledge, and they have any creditbility at all. Do they
successfully measure the effectiveness of your thyroid hormones at the
cellular level? How can they when they just measure quantity? I had an 8
cylinder Matador, I put any kind of gas sold into it and it never made a
difference. My next car was a Chevette, I could put 87 octane into it and it
ran just fine. If I filled it up the gas gauge was on full. If I went to
Clark where the gasoline has methanol, it's still 87 octane, the gas gauge
reads full so the quantity is there, but the effectiveness at the operating
level was not there. My Chevette could not run on it. Yet, it is considered
gasoline, if they test the quantity, if I filled it up it was so full. It's
simplistic to say thyroid is the same way, it's a lot more complicated than
that and so many more variables, some of which no one has any idea, so saying
that someone's thyroid is good only because it's within a certain range is
really, really dumb. Is there reverse T3? Is there something wrong with the
T4 that we can't measure? Is there something wrong with the T3 we don't know
about? Is it true that we only measure the liquid part of the blood and that
onlycontains 1% of the hormone anyway? Is it true that the free T4/T3 is
what you have available ot use or if you need it does the bound stuff become
active?
> However, I no longer feel the same. I've regained 6 lbs that I had lost
and
> for the past few weeks, I've had heel pain in both the bottom and sides of
> that foot. On several occasions, I've taken a little extra Armour to see
if
> the pain decreases and it always seems to.
I went from feeling great on three grains to 2 grains, slowly got worse (but
doctor said "it's not your thryoid), and simply going back up to 3 grains did
cure my sleep apnea, but it took me a very, very long time to fully recover
from that stupidity of looking at lab numbers.
Not only that, when I did go up as high as 6 grains, symptoms I hadnt'
thought of as being thyroid related disappeared. Costochondritis,
"rhematoid" in the hips, constant belching, constant chest pressure, the
feeling of a pending heart attack all gone because I had the courage to
increase my dosage in spite of wondering if my chest pain was really because
I had gone up to 3 grains and my old doctor had been right.
>
Obviously you've been there so you know it's effect. I'm on a constant dose
(which I adjust from time to time) of time releas T3. I can't say that I
feel better than when on Armour, sometimes I think I do, other times I don't
know for sure. I think I could get by on Armour and not be that unhappy. My
T4 has always been low when taken, last reading was less than .6 according to
the lab, they must not be able to read the miniscule amount. I've been
wondering if anyone reallly needs T4. I do not care that it's low and
physically, I haven't felt as good in years as I feel today. I've been bike
riding, playing basketball and doing physical activity that I couldn't do for
a long time and it feels great.
I know how David Derry's patients felt, if they try to lower or take away my
thryoid meds, I'll consider it to be a war on my family's health and well
being because that's what it will be, a terrorist attack from people who want
to see my family suffer and die. They killed my mother, that was one too
many.
Skipper
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