FYI - The most valuable Doc for thyroid problems. See this first before your Doctor:
http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/site-map/

Thyroid & multiple health problems caused by wheat:
Nobody escapes the bowel effects described below. Eat modern wheat and experience the bowel disruption it wreaks, plain and simple.

First, wheat germ agglutinin–indigestible to humans–is a direct intestinal toxin. If 1 mg is fed to a laboratory animal, its intestinal tract undergoes extensive damage not unlike that seen in celiac disease. The average wheat-consuming human takes in 10-20 mg per day.
1) Wheat germ agglutinin can enter the bloodstream and hitch a ride to other organs to places like your knees, hips, skin, thyroid gland, eyes, airways and sinuses, resulting in inflammation in those organs: arthritis, rashes, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, uveitis, asthma and sinus congestion.

2) Gliadin likewise enters the bloodstream and triggers immune phenomena via its “molecular mimicry” effect, its capacity to closely mimic the structure of many human proteins, triggering autoimmune responses: Rheumatoid Arthritis , lupus, polymyositis, neuropathies, etc.

3) Because the disrupted intestinal lining now acts as a two-way path, water can leak into the intestinal tract, resulting in diarrhea and bowel urgency. In fact, this effect of the gliadin protein has been likened to the effect of cholera toxin that results in intractable watery diarrhea.

Multi-organ inflammation, autoimmunity, and watery bowels: You can see why I often call modern wheat “a perfect chronic poison.” It is as if this thing was specifically designed for maximum damage, an intestinal jihad perpetrated on us by agribusiness mujahideen.
http://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2012/09/modern-wheat-a-terrorists-delight/

More gems on wheat:
http://tinyurl.com/Wheat-Health-Problems

Grizz

Mind you I havent done extensive research on the reasoning behind why docs prescribe T4 over T3 but just thinking about how things work I really dont understand why docs prescribe T4.

Oversimplification:
The body uses Iodine to create T4, then it uses selenium to create the enzyme that converts T4 into the active thyroid hormone T3.

Based on what I have seen by posters in this forum people with thyroid issues (which is almost everyone weather they realize it or not) has 2 things in common. They are Iodine AND selenium deficient.

The selenium deficiency isnt really an issue because thyroid activity is low so the need for selenium to convert T4 to T3 is low and additionally the selenium needs for neutralizing hydrogen peroxide(a byproduct of thyroid hormone creation) is low.

However when Iodine is added the need for selenium increases as well, both for conversion of T4 to T3 and for neutralizing the HP.

So with the above in mind a doc prescribing T4 isnt much different that simply taking iodine. The body still needs selenium to convert the T4 to T3 and if absent the conversion doesnt take place at the proper rate and you dont get the desired effect anyway.

My guess would be that as you get older you became even more deficient in selenium making the T4 less viable. I would think if your condition is such that you have been able to get by on just T4 that selenium and iodine would allow you, after some time, to totally get off the medication.

You should test for tsh (thyroid stimulating hormone), T3F (t3 hormone in free form) and the same for T4 hormone. And you could also test for reverse T3, Thyroid Peroxidase (TPO) Antibodies (TPOAb, Thyroglobulin Antibodies / Antithyroglobulin Antibodies and
Thyroid-Stimulating Immunoglobulins (TSI) / TSH Stimulating Antibodies (TSAb). The names would be pretty much the same in Danish, too. And doctors use Latin anyway. And I'm sure they speak good English, too.

In my country we get Armour Thyroid, too, so probably in yours, too. Just explain at the pharmacy what it's made of.

Try finding a doctor who practices functional medicine. You might want to show this page to your hubby... umm you can find it if you google funktionell medicin (in Swedish) or the same in Danish. The Swedish page I was looking at has the words fokuspahalsa in its address.

I'm seeing a doctor of functional medicine here in my country and it was she who, among other therapies, put me on iodine.

And there is a great lab in Scandinavia
called Nordic Laboratories. It is actually based in Copenhagen and specialized in doing tests that functional medicine requires (e.g. iodine, parasites, reverse T3, fatty acids etc.)