Dear Nathan G and other Listers:   Nathan, I take 3 grs of Armour daily,
raising the dosage on my own after stumbling about on 1.5 grs.  As my
long-ago internal medicine doc (Harvard, super bright) told me:  "Thyroid is
a natural serum.  It is not a drug."  If I take "too much" the thryoid
responds by producing less.  Since I have Hashimoto's, with my body
destroying what my own thyroid produces, I have to be like Goldilocks and
gauge for myself just how much is Just Right.  For me.  3 grains of Armour
is Just Right.  As to the TR4 conversion to T3, which is the rationale
behind prescribing Synthroid, some people are not able to convert TR4 into
T3.  The doc (a psychiatrist) who was prescribing meds for my assumed ADD
for a while, said, "The thyroid is not well
 understood."  That was
immediately after I quit Synthroid in favor of Armour, convinced low thyroid
was my main problem.  I was right.  I've progressively increased my dose and
am now feeling well for the first time in years.  I lost a lot of time
dosing myself with ADD meds when my body was not receiving enough thyroid
hormone to function properly.  I no longer take   or any kind of mind
altering drug.   At last I can trust my own mind to guide me in what I am
doing.  I see physicians as consultants AFTER I do my own research.  That is
the journey I've experienced in getting well.  Good health to us all.  Edith

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