Changing Course

As I mentioned in my last post, after doing much research, I have switched my therapy to T3 only, as I believe that the years of severe stress resulting in adrenal fatigue have also given me an RT3 problem, which I am attempting to reverse with a 3-5 month trial of T3 therapy, after which I will go back to Armour. It wasn't really a difficult decision, but it took a lot of research and deep thought in order to make the necessary change. I am still in my iodine experiment, but I anticipate re-introducing iodine to my regimen. I still wish I had a good doctor to help me out in this most difficult maze, but the medical profession is just not up to speed here and way too much influenced by the pharmaceutical companies and their reps. I no longer trust most doctors; I just got sicker and sicker and more and more miserable. Since I have been charting my own course I have finally started on the road to wellness. My story and the story of so many who are subclinically hypothyroid and/or have Hashi's is a condemnation of our medical system, which is woefully behind the true cutting edge of thyroid therapy and is mired in barbaric surgical practices that remove thyroid glands, when much safer alternatives exist to deal with nodules, both hot and cold. The only reason to remove a thyroid gland is cancer. Goiters and nodules can be dealt with on a much safer and far less life changing way. To remove the thyroid gland is to remove the body's thermostat and regulator of metabolism. Barbaric indeed, especially when these can be successfully dealt with WITHOUT surgery, if doctors wouldn't be in such a hurry to do the easy thing and more willing to look at other options, while taking more time, in the long run are much more successful at giving lives back. Surgery, while successful in the short term and easy for physicians and surgeons, leaves the patient with a whole new set of problems, which most doctors just do not deal with correctly. Barbaric and sad. So many lives lived in misery with their misery dismissed by their doctors. A sad commentary on our medical system.