thats the first place i would look. this whole low thyroid/candida overbloom/chronic fatigue thing is usually all tied in with mercury. do you have Amalgam fillings? do you eat a lot of tuna? do you live downwind of a coal power plant?

anyway, there are all many of malfunctions that can occur under these conditions but hypothyroidism is classic. the whole things feeds on itself. the cycle has to be broken. Iodine will go a long way to breaking this cycle.

but first...

you should evaluate yourself and your condition in terms of the basics. you must make sure you are oxygenated. there is an oxygen forum here. i think the Colon Cleanse product called oxycleanse by the earths bounty company is adequate and kills two birds with one stone - oxygenates and gets the bowels going.

hydrate using the watercure.
http://www.watercure2.com


make sure the pathwys of elimination are open - bowels, kidneys, lungs(deep breathing) and skin. it is also important to have good circulation of the blood and lymph.

iodination. i consider this one of the basics.

by this point you will be into halogen balancing and heavy metal chelation. and you will learn a lot along the way.

i recommend barefoots kidney cleanse and lower bowel balance.

you are in trouble for a reason. only you can find a way back out of it. doctors will debilitate and kill you early. i can only assume you want to know your grandkids. trust yourself. you can do this. it wont happen all at once, but it can go about as fast as you want to. a person in your situation can be feeling halfway human in weeks. it can take months or years to find your stride again and be able to avoid this in the future.

The reaction you had to the armour is a classic adrenal issue. How much armour did you take? The doc's advice to go slow is a good one. A really good website to help answer some of your questions is
http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com
Most folks who have undiagnosed thyroid issues for a while burn out their adrenals. It's important to support the adrenals when starting armour. Please don't take synthroid. It will not help you feel any better. Ask your doc to check your ferritin, b12 and vit D levels. The ferritin level should be above 50 optimally around 70-90. b12 needs to be in the mid-upper range and your vit d level (the correct test is 25(OH)D, also called 25-hydroxyvitamin D)should be above 50.

When taking armour it's best to split the dose, am and pm. Most on the yahoo natural thyroid hormone group take it sublingually in the morning and again no later than 4. It's generally recommended the starting dose is 1 grain, so that would be 1/2 grain in the morning and 1/2 grain in the afternoon. If you have adrenal issues, you might have to start lower. There's a 24 hour saliva cortisol test that is used to get a sense of your adrenal cortisol output throughout the day. It'd be a good idea to have that done. Check out the STTM website and come on over to the natural thyroid hormone group. Also, you might want to check out the Iodine group too. Everyone on the natural thyroid hormone group hangs out there too.


Don't give up!!!