Re: minimum beneficial level of T3

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On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 17:10:53 -0000, you wrote:

>1. 12.5 mcg is clearly causing me to feel more hypothyroid. What would the

minimum level be that would be beneficial?

Most people after clearance need 75 to 125 of T3 spread through the

day

How quickly did you go down to 12.5 and were you getting adverse

symptoms with more

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>2. Has anyone any idea why my experience of 'clearing' would have been so

horrible? Has anyone had a similar experience which resulted in a change of

direction which has proved beneficial? I'm thinking of going back up to the 62.5

mcg dose and staying there, in the hopes that the RT3, which is no doubt

building up again, will very gradually decay.

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I am wondering if you have gone horribly hypo and not found your dose

yet

Do you have temperatures and resting pulse?

what happened if you increased T3?

Nick

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Thanks, Nick!

I went down pretty quickly(2 weeks--went to 50 mcg immediately, then rapidly

down to 12.5 mcg, as my life was falling apart), and am now off all meds(3 days

no T3, 3 weeks no HC). Feel better now than when I wasw on the low dose T3--the

low dose seemed to cause panic attacks of all things. Though skin is still

hurting and flaking, feet hurt, brain foggy, etc. etc. it does seem to be

getting a little better.

The only thing I can think of is that the sudden clearance caused some kind of

toxic dump--as I said on the RT3 site, the lights went out when I cleared. Very

frightening. Somehow I had to go to work when I almost couldn't understand

language. Fortunately it's slowly, slowly getting better, but it's still

worrisome.

Plan to get new T3 panel and then start back up, this time not going above 62.5

mcg or so and not taking HC. HC I could never figure out --low dose(20 mg), high

dose(40 mg) whatever, I think I do better without it. I've always been very

energetic and love exercise-HC made that more difficult. Went on this therapy

originally as I had started to feel depressed and freezing and I do think I have

an RT3 problem, which needs addressing.

Would love to know if ANYONE has experienced anything similar with the

clearing!!

And, what's the washout period for T3(eriod of no T3), after which I can have a

full thyroid panel done?

Thanks so much to everyone.

Whitmore.

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> >1. 12.5 mcg is clearly causing me to feel more hypothyroid. What would the

minimum level be that would be beneficial?

>

> Most people after clearance need 75 to 125 of T3 spread through the

> day

>

> How quickly did you go down to 12.5 and were you getting adverse

> symptoms with more