Can you take Armour without a thyroid gland?

[bozcrew]

I am new to thyroid problems, and it looks like I will be having to have my thyroid removed.  I am just wondering if after it is removed, can you take Armour instead of the synthetic drugs that are prescribed?  

Thank You!

[bozcrew]

Thank you all for your answers!  

[stella5349]

You can take any thyroid medication you and your doctor discuss

Synthroid - Armour Westroid - Thyrolar - Levo -

anything that works

[seawha]

I had my thyroid taken out in May this year.  I was on synthetic but now am just starting on Armour.
  
My thyroidectomy was due to suspicious cytology.  Definitive diagnosis is difficult by needle aspiration and surgery is needed in some situations to be able to pin down a correct diagnosis.

In my case, the thyroid was totally filled up with nodules so there wasn't much of it  functioning anyway so they just took it out.  I did fine.  The surgery was as easy as one could imagine...the problem was the hypothyroidism for which medication adjustment of the synthetic hormone just never stabilized.

[sidneythyroid]

Absolutely, you can take Armour! I would not run so fast to get my thyroids yanked out the trouble's that come afterwards is why I am part of different boads. I wish I would have taken Armour and worked with my symptoms before shocking my body into taking them out. You have your parathyroids close by so it very dangerous but honestly these days TT is like no big thing kind of like hysterectomy's were to the 70's. What I know of Armour is that it's from pigs thyroid concentrated but what I find that's better is that it has T1, T2, T3, T4 as synthetic has only T4 and convert this to T3 but it can't convert approx. 25%.  Some doctors will tell you its unreliable but I find that hardly based on fact. That all being said I take synthroid only because I am waiting for my prescription of Armour and that should be any day.