Just started!

I just started (or re-started) this site, and already have one person signed up! I'd better get busy and develop the site more... I know this is an issue a lot of people are dealing with. We all want to be healthier. We're concerned about the problems of over-medication.

Seems like doctors and nurse practitioners are trained to do one main thing: diagnose and prescribe pills! I believe their educations are subsidized by pharmaceutical companies seeking to make profits, so medical education focuses on prescriptions of pharmaceutical pills rather than on diet and nutrition.

I was diagnosed with hypothyroid disorder in 2001, almost ten years ago. Like everyone with this diagnosis I was told to take the pills (synthroid, levoxyl, levothroxine) and that I'd have to use them the rest of my life.

After much internet research I learned that most hypothyroid disorders are caused by an iodine deficiency. I told this to my nurse practitioner and she said she'd never heard of this!

I quit using the levothyroxine she'd prescribed for me, and now use pure Lugol's iodine instead. I don't know yet how this may affect my blood test... I went to get a test and something went wrong with it, and now must go get another. Always money... and more money! I have no medical insurance.

Anyhow, I'm dedicated to getting off the pills. My other main medical problem is hypertension - high blood pressure. More about that later. I'm could just about write a book on that!!!