Posted 3/3/2015 6:30 PM (GMT 0)
I am new here and older and have done a lot more life than so many here I see so far....
Back in 1991 and I was about 53, I suspected a sluggish thyroid...I knew nothing about thyroid but was having horrible "clinical" depression. Went to this internist I knew and he did labs etc....and kept telling me "you are ok"....this was his mantra. Ok, he says but for 10 miserable years wrote scripts for A/D's...as the depression was doing me in.
I even went to a pysch for "less" expensive meds for this depression, I had no insurance to cover these expensive drugs....they somehow got me help from the county....
Oh when I think back to all those wasted years and drugs.....
Well, in about early 2002, I called my osteopath who had cared for my back for many years...he was an older man and "knew" so much about the thyroid.....back in the days before LABS, people were given Armour for a laundry list of symptoms....there are some 66 given or take....Depression a huge one. Anxiety is another of the 66 some symptoms.
He called in for Armour, no tests nadda, and within 4 days that 10 yrs of depression lifted... Armour has been around for about 100 yrs and contains T3 and T4 hormones....Syn and other synthetic meds, contain only T4 and MANY do not convert to what their body needs....
Then I bought books, joined thyroid support groups online and learned more and more.... So MANY docs today do not get it right and people go on suffering and to think getting their thyroid fixed can save them.....
This is my story and thought I'd share... I see only integrative MD's for the last 13 yrs or so, here in my so cal area we have a plethra of integrative healers.....