Yet Another Dr. Switch…
So, after a year with my ‘new’ doctor, who gave me the Armour “take as much as you need to” prescription I’d been looking for, I accidentally missed my annual checkup appointment. At this office, there’s usually a 2-3 month wait for a new appointment, but I thought I had enough Armour to last until an appointment opened up (and I thought if I ran out, I could just get an easy refill!).
So, I ran out of Armour on a Saturday, and called the Dr’s office on Monday (already feeling pretty run down after a couple days with no meds), and discovered a major problem: Office policy was to never refill a prescription without an office visit. I tried to explain to the assistant that I wasn’t one of his sub-clinical thyroid patients, and taking Armour wasn’t an optional thing for me, but the “best [she] could do” was to squeeze me in at 7:30am, three weeks away.
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Diet tips for hypothyroid patients
As I mentioned in my last post, my new doctor specialized in both treating hypothyroidism with Armour thyroid and weight loss, which was exactly what I was looking for. Of course, any self-respecting doctor isn’t just going to throw a bunch of Armour at you and try to give you diet pills without giving you the information you need to help lose weight in a healthy way. So, given that, on top of the list of recommended supplements he sent me home with, he also gave me a lesson on dietary don’ts to keep in mind if I really wanted to lose weight.
I was pretty happy to hear they were all mostly guidelines I already followed in my own eating habits, but still, some of his tips definitely ran counter to the “typical American” idea of how to diet:
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