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oh yeah, and now that i've discovered that i rather like armour thyroid (natural) better than synthroid (not), armour thyroid is out of stock and on back order with the manufacturer, so i've had to get back on synthroid temporarily to avoid all the shit (like myxedema coma) that'll happen to you without any of those sweet delicious vital hormones while i wait for it to get back in stock.
it seems like they do this every year, from what i can gather from the digging i've done into the matter. i mean, the exact same thing happened almost exactly a year ago. it might be something to do with their ninja reformulation of the fillers they use earlier this year (which i also learned about through digging, but didn't notice since i'd only been on armour for a month and they reformulated in the spring), but if this is an actual pattern that goes back farther than a year (haven't made the attempt to dig THAT far, since i do all my "research" while at work and my boss isn't too thrilled with non-work activity happening during work hours, understandably)...
well you'd think they'd take steps to ensure that it didn't happen so regularly and often, assuming they give a crap about their patients/customers. and yes, once a year is often, when it takes six months just to get into an endocrinologist's office to begin with, let alone get them to switch your meds.
there are other natural (desiccated pig thyroid) products on the market (nature-throid and westhroid, which afaik are basically identical, even down to being made by the same parent company, which...is weird, yeah?) but i swear to god pinning down my endo conversationally is a baffling process. getting him to let me try armour in the first place was harder than it had to be, imo, even considering he swears by lab results vs symptoms.
all in all, at this point my faith in the health industry is nominal at best. i don't know, maybe i just need a frances-to-english translator.
it seems like they do this every year, from what i can gather from the digging i've done into the matter. i mean, the exact same thing happened almost exactly a year ago. it might be something to do with their ninja reformulation of the fillers they use earlier this year (which i also learned about through digging, but didn't notice since i'd only been on armour for a month and they reformulated in the spring), but if this is an actual pattern that goes back farther than a year (haven't made the attempt to dig THAT far, since i do all my "research" while at work and my boss isn't too thrilled with non-work activity happening during work hours, understandably)...
well you'd think they'd take steps to ensure that it didn't happen so regularly and often, assuming they give a crap about their patients/customers. and yes, once a year is often, when it takes six months just to get into an endocrinologist's office to begin with, let alone get them to switch your meds.
there are other natural (desiccated pig thyroid) products on the market (nature-throid and westhroid, which afaik are basically identical, even down to being made by the same parent company, which...is weird, yeah?) but i swear to god pinning down my endo conversationally is a baffling process. getting him to let me try armour in the first place was harder than it had to be, imo, even considering he swears by lab results vs symptoms.
all in all, at this point my faith in the health industry is nominal at best. i don't know, maybe i just need a frances-to-english translator.