Re: Getting T3 from GP and great way to shed those pounds!

[Guest guest]

Hi Nick:

I agree with you about feeling worse on very low dose T3. I'm experiencing the

same thing on 12.5 mcg. What do you think is the minimum level at which, on

balance, you start to become less hypo?

Regards.

Whitmore.

> That may be little enough to make you feel worse!

>

> It can end up suppressing TSH a little, lowering your own production,

> and not replacing what it reduces it by.

>

> If you are going the T3 route you need to be able to add enough each

> time you feel hypo to stay ahead of the decay in T4 levels.

>

> I'm warning you of this so if it happens you don't think T3 isn't

> working for you

>

>

[Guest guest]

Bump to Nick.

>

> Hi Nick:

> I agree with you about feeling worse on very low dose T3. I'm experiencing the

same thing on 12.5 mcg. What do you think is the minimum level at which, on

balance, you start to become less hypo?

> Regards.

> Whitmore.

>

> > That may be little enough to make you feel worse!

> >

> > It can end up suppressing TSH a little, lowering your own production,

> > and not replacing what it reduces it by.

> >

> > If you are going the T3 route you need to be able to add enough each

> > time you feel hypo to stay ahead of the decay in T4 levels.

> >

> > I'm warning you of this so if it happens you don't think T3 isn't

> > working for you

> >

> >

>

[Guest guest]

It gets interesting now the chemist has dispensed four times more than the doc

prescribed. Now I have some room to play with the dosage!

D

>

> I didn't ask for it - he offered it!

>

[Guest guest]

(1) I didn't ask - he offered and (2) the GP wrote the prescription in an

ambiguous way with the result that I have 20 days dose at 5mcg, which means I

can start at 5mcg and then play with the dose...does it?

However, I do question what is going on as have had my next endo appt through

for June. Surely you can't give someone a trial of meds and then not see them

for 7 months?! He did ask me to 'let him know how I get on' so the e mail will

be red hot as soon as I get a reaction, good or bad.

Can I/should I play with the dose?

D

>

> Perhaps the endocrinologist recommending a trial of 5 days of just 5mcgs of

> T3 knows exactly what he is doing - knowing his patient will feel worse on

> that dose, and in future, she will stop nattering him for a trial of T3.

[Ed]

[Guest guest]

20 mcg - off to buy a pill cutter tonight. Thanks for the dosage info. Will see

what happens.

D

>

> Actually, I didn't know you could get 5mcg 3 tablets in the UK. Were the

> tablets in 20 or 25mcgs and do you have to cut them into four?

>

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>

>

>

> (1) I didn't ask - he offered and (2) the GP wrote the prescription in an

> ambiguous way with the result that I have 20 days dose at 5mcg, which means

> I can start at 5mcg and then play with the dose...does it?

>

> However, I do question what is going on as have had my next endo appt

> through for June. Surely you can't give someone a trial of meds and then not

> see them for 7 months?! He did ask me to 'let him know how I get on' so the

> e mail will be red hot as soon as I get a reaction, good or bad.

>

> Can I/should I play with the dose?

>