Rumors about Armour Reformulation

Rumors have been circulating in the last few weeks that Armour had undergone another reformulation. (After the reformulation in early 2009 many of us had a bad reaction to the cellulose filler in the new Armour and switched to other brands.)

Yesterday I called Forrest Labs, the maker of Armour, to confirm the rumors. They said definitely, no, Armour has not been recently reformulated, nor are there any plans to reformulate! From the horses mouth, now we know.  

On the Yahoo Thyroid Group I got some great leads on getting Erfa Thyroid in Canada which closely resembles the old Armour. I plan to give it a try and will report my findings, naturally!  Old Armour, we loved you, why did you have to change on us?

xxoo

Lizzy

Weird Reactions to Thyroid Medicine

Some people have reported odd reactions to many types of thyroid medicine, including shooting pains, burning sensations, heart palpitations (and probably lots more we don't know about).

I asked the yahoo community and one nice lady wrote back with some great insights.  She experienced very weird symptoms from thyroid medicines that have a microcrystalline cellulose filler which includes the new reformulated armour, synthroid and naturthroid.  Apparently lots of us hypothyroid people have been experiencing similar, bad reactions to the microcrystalline cellulose filler.

It could perhaps be chemically sensitive, or the nature of hypothyroidism, we don't really know.  The solution for her was ordering a compounded dessicated thyroid with acidophilus as a filler from a compound pharmacy. The doctor has to specify to the pharmacy to use acidophilus as a filler, not cellulose. Also she said make sure to find a reputable compounding pharmacy from the PCAB website.  Getting medicine through a compound pharmacy is really pretty simple.

For all of you who have been struggling with weird reactions to thyroid medicine,  I hope this helps!

xxoo

Lizzy