Normally I do not like the "sue happy thing". But, this is physically making me sick to take a med that does not work now and did not in the past and yet here i get to be back on it and lose my life to it again, lose the progress that i had made on the armour thyroid and to have to start all over again if and when it does become available. The reason i was told why they stopped production was due to poor gastrointestinal dissolution. How many of you had poor dissolution? I had great dissolution on it and if you did not it is probably because of the damage done to your system by not having the correct thyroid formula in the first place. I found by going to walmart and putting myself on a multi-enzyme with probiotics in it that it helped the food digestion problem i was having even prior to taking the armour thyroid. If you do enough reading on the thyroid you find all the damage and illnesses it gives you from not being corrected early on. So, it makes sense to me to take a multi-enzyme/probiotic to help with the dissolution of the med(s) and food even if they do not tell you and why should they, you would see the doctor less, take less med's, need less tests and therefore, in the end affect all their bottom lines. Always remember most things if you break them down enough, you will find it evolves around the green back dollar in one way or another.

I would also like to know why it is that when a doctor prescribes the synthetic thyroid hormone they do not/did not also prescribe the missing component along with it if you do not know enough to ask? I had been on synthetic's for 24 years and they did not work, had difficulties and side effects with many, had to switch many times, been on them all at one time or the other and then the doctor's still insisted on putting me back on what did not work when the latest one did not work, so i requested to be put on armour that actually allowed me to start to feel better. That is why they took it off the market and not their made up bs line. When a product works too well they make less money because you then can eliminate those other drugs you no longer need and never would have had they given you the proper med's in the first place. It is all about the bottom line and it is not yours they give two cents about either! I want to know why over the 24 years i was never told, "oh, by the way when you take a synthetic thyroid hormone you do not get t3 and t4 you get one or the other"? So then, they are assured you will never get better, that they will always make money from you and that you will continue to need other med's for the new health issue's that creep up as each year passes due to what not having the proper thyroid hormone does to your whole system and they are quite aware of all this and why it is done this way. Maximum profits to them and maximum health issues to you and a life of a living death sentence that they really do not care about because it is not affecting their health nor their bottom line, period.

We all need to find an alternative approach and see how it sets with them when they are no longer needed. Boycott and see if it then does not affect their bottom line. Holistic med's may be the way to go, anything has got to be better than the bs that is going on now, how sick we all feel from them ripping this out from under us, no prepping, no notice, and they feel it is fine. Wonder who their pr idiot is that felt all would be fine with how it was handled. It is not.

I got hold of my dept. Of health pharmacy division to get some answers, i also wrote to my state senator, and i called my local television station. Even if some say they cannot do anything, press them for what they can do, who they can refer you to and how to make this thing stop being forced on us and ask as i did for a bill to be put in place to stop the pharmaceutical's from having the ok to just stop production of such a needed hormone. I was told there is nothing that says they have to produce or not produce a medicine. So, they get all kinds of perks of help and they have all the say in if and when they will produce med's and do not even have to notify those of us that it affects. The only way to change that is to start to complain to everyone and anyone you can think of and pass it on. Copy and email any of these forum letters to those you know to get the word out. Knowledge is power and we need to have some power=say-so in this as it affects every aspect of our lives and livelihoods. Everyone needs to kelp that can, there is strength in numbers as you all know and maybe armour thyroid did not plan on that because they probably figured we would all be so annoyed, frustrated, stressed, fatigued, in pain, unable to function and any other number of symptoms to fight back. They are wrong! Dead wrong. It is time to all speak up and put an end to them doing this sort of pulling the sheet out from under all of us with no fair warning what-so-ever and no fear of reprisal either.

Thanks for allowing me to vent how i feel on the subject of how this affects my life as well as the lives of so many others.

Also, maybe this is an issue for a class action law suit! Maybe then they would get the message why you can't just pull this kind of maneuver with no warning to those that it affects