Labs a couple of months old are fine.

Treating a thyroid is not hard and is EXTREMELY cheap. I mean, you can buy a year worth of thyroid medication online for around 75 bucks without a prescription. It's not a controlled substance either so there is no issue with importing them. Takes about two weeks to receive them though.

A couple Wendy's double cheeseburgers will solve the problem

I will do what I can to get into contact with her, tomorrow. I do not know how to get over to her place but I will find a way and I'll stand my ass there till her stupid ass comes the fuck out if it takes three damned days for fuck sakes

This from the guy who

a) was staying with her but not paying half the bills because he's "a life changer"
b) is on here every other week with some hare brained scheme to make money without working
c) was whining and crying he was having to pay for stuff now

So really, which is it? And can you just shut the fuck up and man up and shoulder your goddamn responsibilities instead of coming here and whining and crying for sympathy and rewriting history already?

GET A FUCKING JOB.

No- I paid a whole hell of a lot more than that when she lost/quit her job. Automobile registration, internet, utilities, the whole rent amount and more ...

But I still understand that it is my fault for not manning the fuck up and doing what I had to in order to get her treated- we did, finally, but it just is not going well

Her and I never had to go through this for so long. And you are right about me not manning up when I should have.

But I did pay the rent and drove the wheels off of my car taking her to places and everything else. I did not want to admit that I paid for EVERYTHING, before, because I am ashamed of being like a normal man- but I DID

What does her poo look like? can you post pics of it? It might help???

I unfortunately have one for a neighbor and it's a pain in the ass (she just woke me up screaming to her television set) ...

We have three children, a house, etc...

It's not really that easy. :1orglaugh

maybe try to give her iodine instead of toxic drugs. Iodine is lacking in just about all modern food but it is a vital nutrition for the thyroid.

50 crack houses

stop dating fat chicks and you wont find ones with thyroid problems.

You could be on to something here Mr Maxwell.

I've seen excactly what you mean, didn't think about the thyroid issue being the cause though at the time.

Wasn't as bad, but it ended :winkwink:

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh ...

get her banned from the local buffets. cheaper than meds.

L-thyroxine?

I don't have recent labs to give, but I know that I fall within what western medicine says are "normal" ranges.

I think they are off on the definition of normal, and would certainly try self medication.

ditch the bitch

oh and fat whores are gross, so ditch her and find a healthy, normal sized one.

When she gets better, she may one day read this post and dump your sorry ass for discussing intimate details of your relationship on some stupid forum

calling this forum stupid is grounds for an immediate banning, any last words?

First a little background. Our thyroid gland produces T4, T3, T2, T1, and Calcitonin. T4 & T3 are the most important with regards to metabolism. T3 is the "active" hormone (the one that activates cell receptors to actually raise metabolism) and T4 is a precursor to T3 (i.e., the body *should* convert T4 to T3 as needed).

We naturally produce T4 and T3 at a ratio of around 5:1 along with trace amounts of T2, T1, and Calcitonin.

L-thyroxine is synthetic T4. Today, most doctors prescribe ONLY this hormone to treat hypothyroidism with the notion that the body will convert it to T3 as needed. The problem here is that this doesn't happen efficiently enough for most people. So people will have high T4 levels (that do nothing for metabolism), and sub-optimal T3 levels. But a poorly trained doctor will see that TSH (thyroid hormone demand) has dropped, and they will assume you're fine.

Prior to the development of synthetic T4, in the early 1900s, doctors were treating hypothyroidism using dessicated thyroid (pulverized porcine thyroid) with great success. Dessicated thyroid (Armour, Nature, Westhroid, etc.) have a ratio of T4:T3 that is close to what a human thyroid gland would naturally produce. Unfortunately, a pharma company comes along and synthesizes T4 sometime in the 70s I believe and suddenly the medical community is being "educated" on how this is the best way to treat people with hypothyroidism. Coincidentally, around this time diagnoses of fibromyalgia, depression, and other disorders start to rise. Of course, correlation doesn't equal causation but it's definitely curious to say the least.

Anyway, the medication I would personally suggest is dessicated thyroid (any brand). You would slowly increase your dose until hypothyroid symptoms disappear and/or your lab ranges show your Free T3 near the top of the range (after an AM blood draw BEFORE you take any of your meds). Most people are able to correct their metabolism using between 60mg-180mg of the hormone (some may need more). For example, my mom started at 30mg, a week later went up to 60mg, then a week later 90mg and then held at this dose for 4 weeks. We got labs and her Free T3 was much better than before (on T4 only) but she still needed a little more. So we increased her dose to 120mg and held for 4 weeks again, got some labs done, and now she's just where she needs to be. Nothing has changed and it's been over a year now and she feels much better. My dose is also 120mg. Each small pill is 60mg and I take 1 in the AM and one in the afternoon.

If (a shitty) doctor would review your labs at a point where you're feeling better on the meds, they'd probably say "oh your TSH" is too low, you're taking too much. But in reality, you're not... your brain just has no need to send this signal to your thyroid gland to produce any hormone because you're already supplementing it via your meds. So, if you decide to look for a doctor to treat your thyroid... make sure they focus on markers other than TSH, specifically Free T3. Otherwise you'll just end up at square one.

It really is a very simple process. The problem is people expect results immediately but it takes a good 4+ weeks for symptom alleviation after you've found your dose, so patience is key. You really don't wake up one morning and say "wow I feel it now" because it's such a gradual improvement... instead, after a couple of months you'll look back and realize how awful you felt then vs now.

The hormone is natural and it's cheap. Labwork is cheap (you don't even need to go to a doctor to get it) and once you've found your optimal dose you may need to order labs once a year just to make sure nothing has changed.

Very tired, will post tomorrow

I finally went to the place she is "renting" a room fromt he older woman

Same as the last 7 days. Car there, no answer at the door there. So I went behind the house, to her basement window.... and I could see her little feet

I swear to christ I thought she was dead... I banged on the window and her one foot twitched.. I thought she was really in bad shape

She finally ended up talking with me but too tired to try to explain what she said (if anyone even cares)


Good night!!

hahahahahaha

Where are her friends and family during all this?

It seems to me you're assuming a lot of responsibility that's not entirely your own. It might be different if you shared a residence, but obviously you don't.

all joking aside my exwife had bad thyroid issues. the guys in this thread are right youre in for (even more) miserable, unstable, and erratic behavior from her. distance yourself from the powder keg. you cannot win no matter how hard you try. kids or no kids, leave now or at the very least develop an exit strategy or you're in for swat teams, explosions, 911 calls, repomen, bounty hunters, exboyfriends, and all sorts of other colorful occurences at your doorstep. no matter how 'good' she was before if she's mentally off due to thyroid imbalance youre fucked man. mark my word and yes im speaking from firsthand experience. LEAVE while you still can

I don't deal with hoodrats.

Fastest way to cure this issue: Half Greens/Half Fruit only lifestyle. Google Green Smoothie Revolution. The authors husband cured his thyroid issues on this very easy to sustain lifestyle. Good luck

this is Rx only right?

technically, yes.

but it isn't a controlled substance so you can import it from overseas w/o risk.... i buy mine from edrug2.com

which one do you get , the -s or
Armour Thyroid Thiroyd
Generic

Have her adrenal glands checked too.
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I get the "Armour Thyroid Thiroyd" one.

you just take one pill a day?

I take one in the AM and one in the afternoon... around 6 hours after the morning dose. Timing isn't that critical, I just make sure to get it in me.

If you're going to try this, don't jump right on it. You want to titrate your dose upwards over several weeks.

Before anything though, get some labwork done to establish a baseline and identify any problems! Do you believe you're hypo?

just a little, had lap work done a couple of years ago and they said I was a little low, gave me a small dose of thyroxin, I think it was like .25 mcg, not sure of the dose, but it was low.

Oh yeah, you've got to be careful with low dose thyroid hormone because like I said above, it will suppress your TSH (lowering natural output) and then you're basically supplying what you're preventing from being produced. And since most docs rely on TSH as the indicator of thyroid function, they'll say you're fine even if you tell them you feel the same.

I suffered for almost 2 years thanks to shitty doctors. I could hardly think straight, always tired & in a fog... reading comprehension was awful, I had to re-read things over and over because I'd lose focus in the middle of a paragraph. It absolutely killed my motivation too... made me anti-social as hell, I never wanted to do anything but stay home.

I don't think THAT clown would have paid her RENT