Guest guest Posted June 23, 2009 Report Share Posted June 23, 2009 ----- Forwarded Message ---- jas <humingbrd128 Saturday, June 20, 2009 4:48:19 PM Re: Help with Synthroid Rita ~ bless your heart, you're one of the few that Synthroid actually helps! If you've read some of the other posts on the subject, you've seen references to T3 (triiodothyronine) and T4 (thyroxine). Many more people actually need T3, which Synthroid isn't. It's T4. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to hear from Izabel that her blood levels are regularly tested; she's just being treated with the wrong hormone. Some doctors would know this. Most of them, however, sadly don't. Medicine is just going to have to advance a little further (what the latter-day pioneers have more recently discovered about hormones is just starting to catch on in the larger community ~ a few more decades, and it should be old-hat). I work for a very small compounding pharmacy. We would love to compound custom doses of whichever thyroid hormone our patients might need, but the only thing keeping us from it as yet is the prohibitive cost of a scientific scale that is capable of measuring down to 1000th of a gram of bio-identical thyroid hormone. _____ , Rita Childers <rchilders36@ ...> wrote: > > Izabel, I have been on Synthroid for 30 plus years..have had no after effects....my Dr. checks my blood every 90 days ...which keeps me on track ..and yes..my prescriptions do vary occasionally but at least I stay level and no problems. I hope your Dr. checks your blood as he should be doing. GOOD LUCK, Rita Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 24, 2009 Report Share Posted June 24, 2009 Jas, thank you for your great email,,I should have mentioned ...I take " generic'' for synthroid(levothyroxin)...I have just recently joined the " group " and do love it...but maybe the generic....makes the difference??? and also I had " graves disease " which put me on the synthroid ..after the " radioactive cocktail which was given to me Regards, GOD BLESS! ________________________________ jas <humingbrd128 Monday, June 22, 2009 6:56:07 PM Fw: Help with Synthroid FOR RITA ----- Forwarded Message ---- jas <humingbrd128@ > Saturday, June 20, 2009 4:48:19 PM Re: Help with Synthroid Rita ~ bless your heart, you're one of the few that Synthroid actually helps! If you've read some of the other posts on the subject, you've seen references to T3 (triiodothyronine) and T4 (thyroxine). Many more people actually need T3, which Synthroid isn't. It's T4. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to hear from Izabel that her blood levels are regularly tested; she's just being treated with the wrong hormone. Some doctors would know this. Most of them, however, sadly don't. Medicine is just going to have to advance a little further (what the latter-day pioneers have more recently discovered about hormones is just starting to catch on in the larger community ~ a few more decades, and it should be old-hat). I work for a very small compounding pharmacy. We would love to compound custom doses of whichever thyroid hormone our patients might need, but the only thing keeping us from it as yet is the prohibitive cost of a scientific scale that is capable of measuring down to 1000th of a gram of bio-identical thyroid hormone. ____________ _________ _________ _________ , Rita Childers <rchilders36@ ...> wrote: > > Izabel, I have been on Synthroid for 30 plus years..have had no after effects....my Dr. checks my blood every 90 days ...which keeps me on track ..and yes..my prescriptions do vary occasionally but at least I stay level and no problems. I hope your Dr. checks your blood as he should be doing. GOOD LUCK, Rita Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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