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Old May 7, 2009 | 07:53 PM
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Ah you'll come in handy then lol, its imported from america so you'll never see it 'off the shelf' over here, aparently it was used years ago before synthetic thyroxine was invented then taken off the NHS books.

The only reason i can work out is Armour is a natural 'real' hormone of levo and lio which the body needs and would normally create if i had a gland (all be it from a pig ) whereas what the NHS prescribe is and levo and lio sodium BP which is synthetic.

Wish i didnt have to take it but it was making me worse and worse till i tried the armour and althou im still struggling its alot better.

Think till recently i was taking 150mcg of synthetic levo and the armour tablet is 76mcg so was about 226mcg hence them dropping the dose. Was supposed 2 drop it to 125mcg but took a while to get the 25mcg tabs so have just been taking 100 synthetic for now. Might leave it at that till i have a blood test and see how it comes out!!
Means im on roughly 176mcgs in total of T4.
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