Attention Thyroid Patients: Armour Thyroid Is NOT Off the Market...But Here's How to Get Around Availability Problems

Unfortunately, this is not the only thyroid medication that is hard to get at times. I’ve been taking Cytomel for 3 years now (my ‘miracle’ med!) and again today I was told the pharmacy is out. Frustrating!

Sadly, so many who were so loyal to Armour for years and year have had to switch to Nature-throid anyway due to the 2009 reformulation of Armour. I’m just thankful that I happened to see that info on thyroid forums and made the connection of new Armour formula to my declining health and return of hypo symptoms. Forest Pharmaceutical really should have issued a statement about this change; and they really should have tested it on folks before unleasing it on a unsuspecting group. It has cost me a lot of money trying to get well again…complete with 2 trips to the ER.
After my report to my doctor about it all, she started getting more negative new Armour reports. To be on the safe side of her patients, she has notified all her Armour users there might be a potential problem.

I am hopefull you, Mary, might address this new formulation issue so that others don’t go through what so many of us have. You can reach many who might be getting sick and have no idea why. Yes, it is working for some – but some of us have been horribly sickened/poisoned – and have had to start from scratch after being stable for many many years. This is just unacceptable to me for a pharmaceutical company to endanger their consumers in this way.

Why won’t insurance cover Armour Thyroid anymore? They say it isn’t FDA approved but I have been getting it for 45 years and it was always covered until about 2 years ago.

THANK YOU! Once again the pharmacy was clueless — and it’s Walmart! If a large pharmacy can’t get the correct info, who can we trust? YOU! Thank you!!!

Didn’t know the re-formulation could affect things so much. What exactly has been changed in the manufacturing process? Could this be a reason my TSH went from under 1.0 at my last test to 11.8 just a week ago? or just the effects of stress on my Hashi’s (loss of a family member, new demands on me at work, both in the last 3 months.)

In order for your thyroid medication to be compounded during this shortage he physicianmust write for strength that IS part of the shortage. It is that fact that allows it to be compounded. To find a compounding pharmacy in your area call 1-800-331-2498 (PCCA) Professional Compounding Centers of America) of which I am a amember and have been componding various strengths of this medication for several years as it has been unavailable in various strengths.

I’ve read, and was told by Forest Pharm when I called to notify them of my complaint, that the reformulation is less dextrose, more cellulose. If you google “new Armour formulation” you can find some public forums that have discussed the issue. Many private yahoo thyroid forums also have had “new armour formulation” threads.
I had initially attributed my declining health to various other things (menopause and stress), but the first day I tried Nature-throid I could tell a difference.

I get my AT 90mg @ CVS, but the distributor is out until the second week of July. All the CVS in my area (Southern MD) are out, BUT the store gave me (no charge) their last 6 pills and then found some at the local TARGET, called me and let me know to go up there for a tranfser of the presciption. BTW – I am on retired military insurance, and it IS covered , so if the GOVT HMO will cover AT so should yours.

Wow. You learn so much from this newsletter. I KNEW something had to have changed with my Armour, but the pharmacy told me they (Forest) had only changed the packaging. I’ve spent quite sometime trying to get my dosage back to the correct level. They convinced me I was imagining things and since my doctor had changed my dosage, it must not have been the correct dosage for me. I am still not feeling well. Thanks so much for the info.!! Once again, I find I’m not “losing it”! I was beginning to wonder….

My doctor’s office told me to try COSTCO or Sam’s Club for my Armour. Since these are warehouse clubs, they buy in bulk and usually have it on hand. COSTCO didn’t have my strength but did have two strengths to make my prescription. The better news was that it was even cheaper than buying it at the regular pharmacy!

Both pharmacies are open to the public, at least in CO.

I fired my endocrinologist of 15 years standing because he wouldn’t let me have a trial of Armour Thyroid. I felt better within 15 minutes of taking it for the first time last Dec. Had a total thyroidectomy in February and had to do the Rx dance of adjusting my medication dose and timing to get it to the right place. Stayed on Armour and had it sorted out after 8 weeks and started to feel human again. Went to refill my Armour Thyroid prescription last month and thought I got a bad dose from the pharmacy. They were willing to replace it, but I was suspicious so had the refill moved to a different pharmacy. Got the same nasty looking, nasty tasting medication. Took it anyway and started to feel terrible. Within 4 days I had a massive allergic reaction to the new fillers in addition to feeling horrible. I called Forest Pharmaceuticals to find out what was up. To my dismay, I was informed that they had, indeed, changed the forumulation to make it “dissolve” better in the gut. I asked why they had added cornstarch ( among other) fillers to a product that had worked fine before without it. No comment. I asked if they had tested the new formulation on any thyroid patients — said they hadn’t felt the need.
I went through panic mode, researching other alternatives and then having to track down my doctor to write a different Rx for NatureThroid, then having to go through hell trying to find a pharmacy that stocked any configuration at all of the Naturethroid. Actually had to call my doctor back to re-write the scrip for the configuration that they could fill and I end up having to chop itty-bitty pills in order to get what I need at the right time of day.
Why is this so hard? And why does my insurance company pay for less than 25% of an RX that costs so little ( they pay 80% of virtually any other Rx I get.)
Will I be able to get my refill filled? I’m worried. I hadn’t planned on living like this for the rest of my life, worried about the meds and whether I can even get them.

Wasn’t this the same thing that happened last year?
Why does it keep happening?
I take Armour- 120/day-
But know that I am very very tired of a company that keeps making the same mistakes too.

I take the 15mg of Armour and Medco did not have it. The local Targets did not have it, but was able to get it at a Walgreen’s. So check around. I had Medco write an exception on my record so I could get it locally.
So, check around, some pharmacies might have your dose.

The old armour had dextrose which has now been replaced by cellulose. According to Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellulose, “Cellulose is not digestible by humans and is often referred to as ‘dietary fiber’ or ‘roughage’”. No wonder it tastes chalky!! And since so many thyroid patients have trouble with digestion anyway, no wonder we’re experiencing a return of hypo symptoms !!!

There has been times in Cheyenne, Wyoming that I have had to wait for 1 gr at the pharmacy. Many years ago, I lived in Kensington, MD and used Knowles.

I,too, have been on Armour for over 10 years… I am now having to change to Nature-Throid. I took the “new Armour” for 2 days and felt like I was being force fed Synthroid again… I can tolerate the chalky tablet, but not what it does to me physically.
I don’t know what % of Forest’s profits are from Armour, but obviously they don’t care if they lose a ton of business. It REALLY torks me… especially those of us who can’t take any of the synthetics.

Billie said: “Why won’t insurance cover Armour Thyroid anymore? They say it isn’t FDA approved ”

Armour Thyroid predates the FDA – it’s one of the few medications that were “grandfathered” in back in the 1930’s as “in common use” at the time, so didn’t need FDA approval. Armour Thyroid has been used for over a hundred years now to treat thyroid disease, and should never need FDA approval (unless our crooked politicians change that with new legislation).

I started the formulation of Armour 4 weeks ago. My TSH, FT3, & FT4 was tested on Monday and it’s still the same. I also feel the same.

I switched to Armour slowly from Synthroid. I was not converting from T4 to T3. For a while I was feeling really really good. I’ve always had a problem with heat as well as cold and Raynauds. About a month ago, I walked several blocks uphill in the high heat and my heart started to jump all over the place. I didn’t stay in the heat. I went into an air conditioned store for more than a half hours and then I went out again in the heat and back to where I started which was air conditioned. This went on for a few hours and finally calmed down when I sat quietly back in the air conditioned place I started from. My doctor said it must be my adrenals. I think it’s Armour. Lately my energy level is up and down. Checking my temperature in the morning, my temperture has gone down and I’m afraid to up the dosage. I thought perhaps I’m one of those people that need a combination of Armour and Synthroid. This puts a different spin on this.

If Forest Labs has changed the formnulation, that would require a new drug application. I don’t feel comfortable about this. I’m going to discuss it with my doctor immediately. Summer is coming and I would like to enjoy it and not wonder if I’m going to make it through if it gets hot. (I’m a senior citizen.)

CVS didn’t have one of the doses you mentioned and sent me out of the way to another of their pharmacies who did have it.

Any comments about the aluminum contained in the T4 drugs? Since I took Synthroid for many years, am I aluminum toxic?

By the way, when I was on Synthroid I had presyncopay episodes. The doctors kept giving me heart tests. There was fortunately nothing wrong. I haven’t had any of these episodes since I haven’t been on Synthroid. Should I be mentioning this somewhere?

Andrea

Thank you very much for this helpful information! Now I know what I need to do!

I had just used the last of a three-month supply of Armour Thyroid (I’ve been taking it for 4 years) when the mail-order pharmacy that my medical insurance prefers I use informed me that it was no longer available to them in my dosage so if I wanted it, I’d need to get it from a local pharmacy, which I did. I didn’t make the connection until I read the info and comments on this blog, but since I started taking this new “batch” of Armour Thyroid, I have been having heart palpitations-my heart is skipping beats, several every 60-seconds. As I am writing this, I am wearing a 24-hour heart halter, I had blood taken last week to have my thyroid levels checked again, and I will see a cardiologist in a week to have an echocardiogram(other than hypothyrodism, I am a fit 48 year old woman). Has anyone else experienced these symptoms with the newly formulated Armour?

Teresa wrote “since I started taking this new “batch” of Armour Thyroid, I have been having heart palpitations-my heart is skipping beats, several every 60-seconds. As I am writing this, I am wearing a 24-hour heart halter, I had blood taken last week to have my thyroid levels checked again, and I will see a cardiologist in a week to have an echocardiogram(other than hypothyrodism, I am a fit 48 year old woman). Has anyone else experienced these symptoms with the newly formulated Armour?”

Yes, I have noticed the chalkiness in my mouth (I let the tablets dissolve under my tongue). The new formulation doesn’t dissolve as completely as the previous formulation. I have noticed a return of some hypo symptoms – weight gain and hair loss – and have definitely had heart racing and shortness of breath/endurance issues since beginning the new formulation. I’, unhappy with Armour’s makers for making the change without ANY tests on thyroid patients nor any prior warning. I am further unhappy with their incompetent management which allows frequent shortages of a standard product. The shortages pique my curiosity as to what is going wrong within the company to bring about the shortages. Nature-throid, here I come.

I was taking a compounded T3 and T4 prescription that, no matter how we upped the amount of T3, was not working. I finally convinced my functional medicine doctor to change me to Armour dessicated thyroid and I immediately had improvement and this is the “newly formulated” Armour. Now I am technically hyperthyroid (TSH is .3) but my T3 and T4 are perfectly within range.

I am wondering if the real problem for most women is their imbalanced hormones (and their GI tracts). Is it possible that when your hormones are out of whack the entire body is out of sync? When you get your testosterone, progesterone,estrogen, etc. in balance with bio-identical hormones perhaps the thyroid functions more normally.
To improve gut performance you need home made kefir every morning made with “real” milk and kefir grains (no added sugar).
My theory is if you solve both of those enormous problems the newly formulated Armour will work perfectly.

I remember you commented on this possibility on your blog and i had responded. Only problem with this is – the old Armour worked perfectly for us for years. I’d taken it since 2004 – no problem at all…perfectly optimized. And then BOOM – a severe return to hypo symptoms with the new Armour and even additional nausea/poisoning type symptoms. And then the strange heat/sweating/heart problems – that many think is hyper. I’m not sure about that..i juts think it is the new med. There are way too many folks having this same type scenario to “blame the patient”. We were fine. We got hypo and sick on the new Armour. And for me, once I switched to Nature-throid, I was fine again…although it has taken some recovery time.

I’ve experienced a similar reaction. I have taken Armour since Sep 2006, felt pretty good. My doctor prescribed 3 grains per day and I found that during the coldest part of the year I needed all 3 grains to maintain a normal temp and feel normal. During the warmer months 2.5 grains did the trick.

I had a total thyroidectomy in April and continued with the 2.5 grains and everything was going along well…..until I opened my bottle of the new formula. I seemed to have had a recurrence of hypo symptoms, no energy, losing hair, super dry skin, etc.etc. So, I charted my temp for a few days and I was back down again. Thought it might be a result of the surgery, even though at 5 weeks post-surgery my labs looked, I felt good and temps were where they should be.

Fortunately because I was prescribed 3 grains to begin with, I upped myself to 3 grains, 1&1/2 in the am and 1&1/2 in the pm and it has helped a little, but I certainly don’t feel as good as I did on the older formula. I have an appt. with a new endo on 8/10 and I picked her because she routinely prescribes Armour. I’m really curious what she has to say about the new formula.

Those of you that have switched over to Nature-throid, did you notice a difference right away? Was there any adjustment time?

Thanks,
dawn

Dawn,
I could tell a difference mentally/emotionally the very first day with Nature-throid…my spirits lifted…that day. And that only got better. I realized in retrospect (dang that hypo brain fog)after starting Nature-throid that I really had had quite a loss in motivation, trouble concentrating, depression and anxiety, OCD, etc…I thought it was menopause…it was just those pesky psychological/psychiatric hypo symptoms that had returned.
The Nature-throid helped all this immensely pretty fast…the first week or two. The physical symptoms got better too the first two weeks…but it’s taken over a month to really start to feel optimized again…and back to where I once was on the old Armour. So i do think the change can be felt pretty fast…but also i think folks should expect a bit of recovery time.

I received my 90 day supply of 2 grain Armour last week and felt certain that I’d either gotten expired meds, or counterfeit meds. It tasted chalky and unsweet – not like the Armour that I was used to. I went looking for answers and arrived on this message board. Glad to hear that I’m not alone. This week, I’ve been very tired every day and my mind is foggy, plus I got a cold sore, which I usually only get when I need more Armour. I am very disgusted with Forest for doing this to us.

I too have been wondering why I don’t feel the same anymore. Always tired, brain fog,etc. Did not know anything about the Armour reformulation. I have had a strange heart symptom for years on Armour and have just gotten used to it, it is like my heart skips a beat, sometimes kind of scary, but if it doesn’t do it when you are wearing a heart monitor, kind of hard to catch. If nature-throid is armour’s replacement why aren’t we taking it in it’s place? Is it the same?

In my case,Nature-throid is not as potent as Armour was.The ratio of T3,T4 is supposedly the same,but my body doesn’t seem to be metabolizing Nature-throid as well as it did the old Armour.

I need my armour thiroid old formula back. I use armour for more thath 15 years. I have a lot of bad simtoms, lose a lot hair, gain weith 10 pounds, arritmia cardiac sometimes, nervious, itchin in my body, rare sensation in my heard, fatigue, lose energy,

Since I changed from Synthroid to Armour, 2 years ago, I do not have to take the cytomel, and I feel so much better.

My Nurse Practioner spent the better part of two days looking for the FDA Approval for Nature-Throid and Westhroid. All of her resources say they don’t have FDA Approval.
I know they have been, but even the Resources Doctors use are Mis/Ill-informed. The only reason she’s ‘letting’ me try them, is because my symptoms came back- with a vengence- after Last Fall’s Armour reformulation. I just thought my dosage was too low in cold weather, and we increased it… only to have the new formulation take place at that time. If I didn’t feel so bad, I would be infuriated.

Wow, I’m so glad I found this forum! What a runaround I’ve gotten from my pharmacy! I ran out of my auto-refilled Rx last Friday and Walgreen’s told me they cannot get any…but they didn’t bother to let me know this BEFORE I ran out of meds! This is just unacceptable to me! Luckily for me – because I read this news from your site – I called my doctor last week and she got me on Naturthyroid at a different pharmacy! Otherwise, left to my former pharmacy’s apathy, I would be without!

It seems now.. the Gov’t is making the dessicated thyroid.. jump thru hoops… they now have to submit data.. to prove they are safe.. Armour is back ordered… until futher notice.. another company has decided not to pursue and no longer make… God save us all..

I too am experiencing difficulty with the new Armour. Since the new pills, I have been waking up with irregular heart beats. I also notice a difference in my skin and I have less energy and increased fog. Too, I’ve put on a few pounds, and no I’m not eating more. I thought it was just me!

Like another poster I had wondered if I had some counterfeit or old pills. I called them and they said they removed or added sugar (I forget which) no mention of cellulose.

I am calling on Monday and telling them how much I have been affected by the change. I have advocated for them for years – often taking much crap from doctors who kept trying to switch me to the synthetic. I feel betrayed.

Thanks to other posters I will check into Nature-throid although I would love my old Armour.

Well here it is way past June 29th and Armour is nowhere to be found in Indianapolis….believe me when I say I have called every drugstore (100’s) in Indianapolis and you may find 1 or 2 pills here & there. What is up with Armour anyway? This is ridiculous.

I was just diagnosed with Hashimotos and my Dr. gave me Armour 15mg. After reading about the new “batch” I am afraid to take it. Should I have my Dr. give me the Nature product instead? I can’t believe she wasn’t aware of this huge change by Forest! Please help me with this info. I plan on contacting my Dr. on Tuesday!

Both my daughter and I are on Armour and both of us were due to have our scripts refilled last week. Both of us were told that there was NO Armour to be had at our Pharmacy so we scrambled all over Clinton Twp. Michigan looking to find someone, anyone who had any Armour. We were able to obtain a few doses here and there but let me tell you that it was a terribly stressful week. And I questioned the pharmacies about any other natural thryoid and was told there were none approved by the FDA. I can’t express how very upset and angry I am that Forest Lab would change their formula which was “grandfathered in” for one that isn’t without letting their patients know. This leaves millions of people who cannot tolerate synthetics totally without anything they can take. I will be calling an apothecary lab this week in hopes of finding a solution but I don’t know if my doctor will be willing to jump through all the hoops he will have to for me.

I can not believe my physician nor my pharmacy has informed me of the reformulation of Armour. I went through lots of retesting this past year and dose adjustments and it was never mentioned until now my pharmacy is unable to obtain my medication so now I have been asking why and doing some research on my own. Your site has been very helpful and given me direction not to mention hope in Nature-throid.

After being on Synthroid of and on with all the sideaffects and trips to the emergencyroom and begging the doctors for natural Thyroid medicine,I finally got put on Armour Thyroid over 10 years ago.I was doing wonderfull.Than they told me I cant get it no more from the military pharmacy so I changed to the CVS last week CVS told me they cant refill my perscription,Armour Thyroid is of the market.So I called around and got some pills here some pills there,and must have gotten some of the new batch to,because I startet feeling different and didn know why,till I read some of you comments here.It is bad what the company does to all the people that dependet on Armour Thyroid.I dont know what I will do about taking anything else,I know it will not be Synthroid.

I think the only thing we can do now is to pressure Congress and the President. Life threatening need for thyroid is not something we can just sit around and be concerned about. We have to act. Perhaps I’m overly suspicious, but if there is somehow profit to be made for lack of thryoid alternatives and forcing people onto synthetics, why wouldn’t it be done? There’s a lot of money to be made in Pharma.

Well I had notice a big change too. Very hot temp. and tired all the time. I also had notice the pills smelt really bad when I opened the bottle. My doc. did blood work again and as expected I had fallen well below my avg. So my Armor was upped to 90mg and I have yet to start feeling better.

Another thing that bothers me is that I take a full pill and a half, do to them not having my correct script in stock. And to cut these pills in half is a joke…they CRUMBLE. So should I be getting the exact amount prescribed?? Obviously I am not because they CRUMBLE, so it’s kind of a guessing game.

I just picked up my 3 month supply of Armour thyroid at my pharmacy today. The have a supply. The pharmacist told me that the shortages were due to the killing of so many pigs in Europe because of the H1N1 scare – craziness, and that slowly the supply of porcine thyroid is becoming available again. Armour was grandfathered long ago, and my pharmacist did not think it would become unavailable.

I was on Synthroid for 2 years – they were hell. Doctors who think synthetics are better for us are not well informed, or couldn’t bother to think outside the box.

I’m a pharmacy tech. We are not clueless. We are not trying to mislead customers. We are not rubbing our hands together and plotting to switch people to more expensive thyroid alternatives. WE CANNOT GET ARMOUR THYROID IN ANY STRENGTH.

The only information we directly get is from our distributor and even that information is a very short ‘product allocated until _____ ‘ message. The dates they’ve given us have been extended further and further out. And when we do finally get shipped some? It’s literally ONE bottle of ONE strength. (We’re a small, independent pharmacy–we get treated differently than large chains.)

We have no control over this situation. Our pharmacists agree with you and recommend natural vs. synthetic thyroid. Our pharmacists do everything they can to help our customers, including sending our business away to other pharmacies that might still have Armour or to the compounding pharmacy in town.

Please do not spread misinformation blaming pharmacies when we have no control over when and how much product we can receive.

Forest Pharms IS NO LONGER MAKING ARMOUR — and that is a fact. There is no back order, so we are all screwed. My doctor, who is also a pharmacist and Walgreens have both confirmed this.

Isnt Forest Labs the same one that makes Synthroid? Sounds like a conspiracy…but that’s just me.

I had a heck of a time finding a replacement for Armour Thyroid.
Walgreens simply told me it wasnt being made anymore..period.
I found a wonderful little pharmacy that compounds Naturethroid called Scripts Pharmacy in St. Joseph, Mi

About my comment above re Forest Labs;
I was told by a pharmacist that whoever it is that owns Synthroid bought the rights to Armour Thyroid tho I’m not clear on the details.

CVS in my area is still able to get Armour. However, like many I noticed a return of hypothyroid symptoms this past summer and when labs were checked my Physician and I were surprised to discover that my TSH was once again elevated where as I was previously normalized (my Physician was not aware of the reformulation)

I came to the conclusion that because of the reformulation Armour may not be absorbed properly I have started taking it sublingual. I just let it dissolve under my tongue. It only takes a few minutes, while a little chalky there really is no taste, and at two weeks out my symptoms are abating. I will have labs drawn next week and expect a lower TSH.

I have nearly reached the end of my whole bottle (100) half tablets of Armour. I have been trying to get it refilled for a month. No luck anywhere here in South Puget Sound region of WA. I too the information from this site in to my Dr. and asked for a prescription for Naturethroid. I tried to get this filled last week. The responses were:

Rite Aide (my usual pharmacy): We can’t get this one either. We might be able to get it in a few weeks. It’s not our fault. There is a manufacturer caused shortage and everything is back ordered. Check back with us toward the end of November.

Walgreens: I’ve just called our supplier and found out that it is not available right now and they don’t know when it will be, as there is a shortage of the medication from the manufacturer. Sorry.

Costco: We don’t have any. It’s not that we don’t order it. We order it every morning. It is back ordered. We occasionally get a bottle, but we never know when one will show up. There is a tremendous shortage due to the actions of the manufacturer.

This is outrageous. Fortunately for me, I may be able to limp along as I take a combination of levoxyl and (previously) Armour. When I was first diagnosed, about 16 years ago, they put me on Synthroid, which I had a horrible reaction to and ended up in emergency rooms twice because of it. I refused to take it any longer and tried Armour by itself starting very very slowly and gradually working up to the allegedly proper dose. I did not feel well. My endo added levoxyl and chastised me for insisting on using the Armour. The combination of the two has worked best for me. My endo finally admitted that some were finding that a combination worked best. I don’t know what will happen if I have to go on to just levoxyl. But I don’t know what else to do until this mess gets straightened out.

It is now like Thyroid patients can just decide not to take their meds for a few months. I am becoming quite angry about all of this.

Has anyone tried the Westhroid instead of the Armour 90mg? i’m not sure how the avialibility is on this one!

Thank you for this info. I had to go off the new formula of Armour because I developed a severe allergy to the cellulose. I started out with slight hives but then ended up in the ER with throat constriction. Still took me three months to figure it out. Cellulose is in a LOT of medications, including a lot of antihistamines. It’s also in a LOT of foods–added to many things we normally would eat without any problems. It is also used to make rayon, which is in tampons…so it took me a while to figure out this allergy since there was no rhyme or reason to my reactions. I have been hive-free for a month now, so I feel that I have this thing under control finally–except for the thyroid part…

I am still not regulated on my new thyroid meds–I started taking synthroid and cytomel, and this is my third month of sluggishness and lethargy. (I had tried to get Nature-throid or West-throid, but they weren’t available at the time…what is up wth that? Aren’t there enough pigs to get this stuff from? )

I had a terrible time when I went off the armour. I thought I was on a low enough dose my body would sort itself out. I suffered Terrible depression and fibromyalgia symptoms. Now my pharmacy is compounding thyroid in caps. I feel better after one week of taking it. Dont give up. Its worth it when you began to feel great.

Yes, I agree with most of what everyone has said. I had a complete thyroidectomy in 2006 due to uncontrollable thyroiditis. (not Hashimotos) Because I usually live overseas I could not use simple suppression drugs long term. I cannot take levothyroxin alone, because it builds up and I do not convert T4 to T3 well. I LOVED armour…and felt great. I had my dosages perfect…UNTIL…the new batch came out. I am now on a combination of Levo. and using up the old armour. There are other thyroid suppliers. Canada “thyroid.” I used Westhroid and loved it. It is just like the old Armour was. There are also suppliers in Australia. There are natural thyroid makers out there..we all just have to find them.

Oh my! I just found out they cannot get Armour Thyroid at ANY of pharmacies in southeastern Michigan. Yes, I call MANY of them. Also, while taking the last Rx refill, I did not feel the same. I wonder if I was given the new formula? Without my knowledge. Anyway, I HOPE they come to their senses and give us the OLD Armour formula, so we can continue with our lives. Has anyone complained to the FDA about this?

i will try armour, i was on levothyroxine and oh my gos, my skin is burning from irritation, it’s been a year since i’m taking it, awful, just awful ! can’t wait to try armour

Who do we contact? How can we bombard Forest Pharmaceuticals with email or phone calls? I’ve tried both regarding Forest and have hit dead ends. I know all of my thyroid suffering friends share the same sentiment… ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!! This “shortage” has gone on for a year or more now! Funny how this wasn’t an issue until after the FDA approved Synthroid in Aug. of 2002. I lived on that synthetic crap for 15 years… FINALLY found a dr. that would prescribe Armour and now this.

Thank you Forest for screwing with a disease that is so dibilitating to so many. You suck.