I have a doctor who agrees with me: Armour was and is the only acceptable form of treatment for hypothyroidism. Our best hope now is that the FDA does not declare pigs themselves illegal.
We can still find compounding pharmacies that will formulate batches of "Desiccated Thyroid USP". It is VITAL that your doctor write the prescription for that, and not for Armour.
Recently, Forest Pharmaceuticals started to change its formulation and its fillers. Many of us became sick, and started exhibiting hypo symptoms. It coincides perfectly with the rush to meet demands for the H1N1 Swine Flu shots. Whether this is the cause or not for the "shortage" is beyond me. I DO know that when I hear the word "shortage" I automatically think that someone somewhere is making a LOT of money. I'm 62 years old and smell the fish when they stink, whether in Denmark or in DC.
(Aside: It's interesting that Premarin is derived from pregnant mares urine, and it seems the drug of choice for most doctors in treating menopause.)
The male-dominated health care system seems determined to place little or no importance on how women feel or function. I realize that many men become hypothyroid also, but the majority of sufferers are female. Many women (and men) may die, slipping into myxedema coma. Since it's estimated that 25 out of every 1000 females in the US are hypo, the immediacy and gravity of this situation is too big for even OUR idiot-controlled (read: Pentagon) media to ignore for long. But obviously it will take many deaths before they take notice.
Armour will never be the same (remember the sweet taste as it melted under your tongue, remember how even your doctor didn't know that the delivery system was sublingual?) and probably won't survive as a company. Good. Armour's conduct during this greed-generated crisis is deplorable. Their inane internet pop-up and their (identical) phone message are designed to give us hope. The only hope I have is that they appear before a Senate sub-committee, and lose every penny that they've ever made on us, their guinea-pigs, their cash-cows.
Next, I want to see BIG PHARMA and the FDA (same thing) step in and realize that millions and millions of dollars can be made simply by providing us with Desiccated Thyroid USP. Killing us won't make them ANY profits.