McCall McPhersonFounder, Modern Thyroid Clinic.

From Synthroid Struggles to Healing: My Journey with Armour

17 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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First-person patient account (McCall McPherson) describing months-long wait for care, lack of improvement on levothyroxine (Synthroid) due to inadequate conversion to active T3, and a successful switch to desiccated thyroid (Armour) that restored her health and motivated her to prevent similar delays for her patients.

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But I got on the wait list for someone, waited three months to see them, and I would never get better on Synthroid that I wasn't able to activate it, that it was simply increasing my inhibitory hormone and not converting to my active hormone or my T3. He changed my medication. He actually put me on armor. And within a few months, I was on the way to getting my life back. And from that moment, I was like, I am not going to let what happened to me happen to any of my patients.