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A recent three-part blog post by endocrinologist and osteopath Thomas Repas, DO, FACP, FACE, CDE on the website Endocrinology Today best represents the current struggle between doctors rigid beliefs in Synthroid and other T4-only brand treatment, and patients frustration and struggle in educating their doctors about a far better treatment.
(NOTE: the Endocrine Today website may require you to register to see the below.)
Part One here: http://www.endocrinetoday.com/comments.aspx?rid=35717
Part Two here: http://www.endocrinetoday.com/comments.aspx?rid=35766
Part Three here: http://www.endocrinetoday.com/comments.aspx?rid=35803
In fact, patients will repeatedly report that Endocrinologists have been the worst nightmare when it comes to thyroxine treatment rigidity and ignorance about a better treatment with desiccated natural thyroid. On my patient-to-patient activist website, there is a compilation of statements made by doctors, especially Endocrinologists, and reported by patients, and you can multiply those statements by thousands according to patients who repeatedly report them. http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/give-me-a-break
This patient movement is not going to go away. Synthroid and other T4-only medications have not worked well for the majority for fifty years, and will never work as well as desiccated thyroid. Sure, there will always be some patients who claim they do fine on T4-only. But as they age, the proof will be in the pudding, because the body is not meant to live on a storage hormone alone.
Janie A. Bowthorpe, M.Ed. is a thyroid patient activist, author of the book Stop the Thyroid Madness: a Patient Revolution Against Decades of Inferior Thyroid Treatment and owner of the website www.stopthethyroidmadness.com
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