Armor for Several Years. A Change To Happen. Experiences Needed.

[ilovecruises]

Hi Community. I have been on Armour Thyroid for several years now. I changed insurance and chose a high deductible, and I think that is why it's no longer covered.

Is anyone using the below meds and what has your experience been? Armour was great for me, has anyone had to switch that loved Armour and what was your alternative? Was the alternative as good as Armour? Were any of the options below an alternative if switched from Armour Thyroid?

NP Thyroid,

Westhroid,

WP Thyroid,

Thyroid,

Thyroid Porcine,

NatureThroid

[grumpyold]

I LOVED Armour for the year I could afford to take it. Switched to Erfa and then Thiroyd from Thailand. ( I think that's how it was spelt. It was a long time ago.)Currently on T4/T3 combo as easier to source and self fund.

Don't feel as great as I did on Armour but close enough. I function and live an almost "normal" life ie as "normal" as life can ever be with Hashi's and everything else.

[RedApple Administrator]

Westhroid, Nature-Throid and WP Thyroid, are no longer manufactured. RLC LABS stopped production several years ago following a recall due to potency instabilities, and have never brought any of their desiccated thyroid products back to market.

[ilovecruises in reply to RedApple]

Ah, okay. Thanks for that information.

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK]

My World Desiccated Thyroid document might help.

helvella's medicines documents (UK and Rest of the World) can be found here:

helvella - Thyroid Hormone Medicines

helvella has created, and tries to maintain, documents containing details of all thyroid hormone medicines in the UK and, in less detail, many others around the world. There is now a specific world desiccated thyroid document.

I highly recommend viewing on a computer screen, or a decent sized tablet, rather than a phone. Even I find it less than satisfactory trying to view them on my phone.

helvella - Thyroid Hormone Medicines - UK

The UK document contains up-to-date versions of the Summary Matrixes for levothyroxine tablets, oral solutions and also liothyronine available in the UK. Includes descriptions of tablet markings which allow identification. Latest updates include all declared ingredients for all UK products and links to Patient Information Leaflets, etc.

dropbox.com/s/bo2jzxucgp9hl...

helvella - World Desiccated Thyroid

Contains details of all known desiccated thyroid products.

dropbox.com/scl/fi/gx6dmz5i...

helvella - Thyroid Hormone Medicines - RotW

Contains details of all levothyroxine, liothyronine and combination products - excluding desiccated thyroid products. Details available vary by country and manufacturer.

The link below takes you to a blog page which has direct links to the documents from Dropbox and QR codes to make it easy to access from phones. You will have to scroll down or up to find the link to the document you want.

helvella.blogspot.com/p/hel...

[ilovecruises in reply to helvella]

Thank you.

[RockyPath]

I've been on NP Thyroid (Acela) since Nature-Throid went away. I couldn't tell any difference. Doesn't have many fillers. It works fine for me.

I could not take levothyroxine. Adding some T3 didn't help at all.

Good luck!

[ilovecruises in reply to RockyPath]

Synthetic and levothyroxine had me balled up in tears and missing work. It was horrible. I started my research and thank God, I found this site and learned about Armour.