💊 9 Years Since I Ordered Thyroid Meds Off The Internet | Issue 176
For £30, I changed my life.
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In this newsletter I will be delving in to my history of deciding to change from Levothyroxine to NDT, which I bought online from Thailand.
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- Rachel Hill, The Invisible Hypothyroidism 🦋
Thursday Thoughts
How did I go from being extremely unwell on Levothyroxine to having my life back on NDT?
On 15th December 2015, I began my journey with natural desiccated thyroid (NDT) and created my blog, theinvisiblehypothyroisim.com.
To say I was unimpressed with Levothyroxine was an understatement. A pill, I was told, “will solve all your symptoms within a month or two”. I had been on it for six months and only gained more symptoms. Weight gain, exhaustion, hair loss, acid reflux, depression, anxiety, panic attacks, brain fog, chronic constipation, muscle pain, migraines, cold intolerance and so much more. I was only 22-years-old but felt 90.
And so, fed-up, I eventually decided to source NDT, a medication that has been used for over a hundred years and which sounded like it might work better for me than Levothyroxine. Yet, was hugely controversial.
I’d asked a few different doctors at my GP practice to prescribe it for me, as well as an endocrinologist, but all of them point-blank refused. I didn’t want to self-source it, doing so filled me with anxiety. But in late November, I left another doctors appointment in tears; disheartened, fed up and angry.
I was sick and tired of being sick and tired. “The Levothyroxine isn’t working, why won’t they listen to me?!”