Posted by florence on March 9, 2005, at 20:37:25
In reply to Re: Tyroid (T3) Augmentation and Hair Loss Questio » florence, posted by Maxime on March 8, 2005, at 21:03:46
The sensational, most informative, intelligent thyroid group that I belong to is Natural Thyroid Hormone at yahoo groups. Believe me when I say that I did enough research to know they are the best. I get a "digest" of all posts for the day sent to my email account but you can go to the groups site and read previously posts or look up links and polls.
Another site I found REALLY helpful was Alternative Thyroid.com It has losts of useful info too.... But the yahoo group is the absolute best.
BTW, in my quest to find a cause for my unrelenting fatigue, a high calcium level was found ( I had to BEG the dr to test SOMETHING so I had a complete metabolic panel) Anyway, I ended up having a parathyroidectomy....It did NOTHING to help my fatigue.
Also, I don't want to insult anyone's intelligence but Lithium is well-known to cause or interfere with thyroid...I have a friend with BiPolar and he takes Armour thyroid because of the Lithium.
Speaking of conversion problems: I have heard this MANY times on the Yahoo Group site. That is why Synthroid or any T4 only medicine does not work for some people.
There are several Canadians in this thyroid group. Also Aussies, and some Europeans.
The moderator is Janie but there is a gal named Valerie who lives in West Virginia I think and she is quite knowledgable too. She take s an ungodly amount of Armour PLUS 25 mg cytomel.. But she didn't ramp up to that overnight. It took her YEARS...
Please check out this group. They have REALLY done their homework so you won't have to! I learned the majority of my info from them. I could have saved so much time and MONEY if I had discovered it earlier...
Can I answer any other questions? I can always ask the group for you..but nothing beats registering with this group... They are not adverse to synthetic meds but since most people had no luck with them they tend to favor Armour.
All the best - Florence
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