Re: how to increase armour?

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The prescribing info for Armour states that 30 mg is the starting dose, with increases of 15 mg. Some docs will increase you rather rapidly-15 mg per week. Others will wait six or more weeks and test before making increases. Slack wrote:

so, on november 19th, i go in to see my endo againafter 1 month (well, it will be 5 weeks by then) on30mg (1/2 grain) of armour. unless something radicalhappens in the next four weeks, i will be asking herto increase my dose. how should that happen? isgoing from 30 to 60 too big a jump? do i need to goto 45 first? for how long? how long do we need towait between dosage increases?thanks so much in advance.oh, in other good news, when i made this appointment,i asked about having my bloodwork done before theappointment so that we could discuss it at theappointment and they said that was no problem. and,without me having to ask again, she is checking thefree t3 and the free t4 in addition to the tsh.

rachel.__________________________________________________

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I usually feel increased in about 1 1/2- 2 1/2 weeks. I think till you hit 3+ grains you could safely increase about every 2 weeks, small increases. When you get to 3 grains, you need to slow it down to maybe 4-5 weeks with small increases. This has worked well for me (When I didn;t get impatient! LOL).

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>>I gained 125 lbs in 12 years on $ynthroid. I have not been able to lose on Armour, but at least the gain has stopped. <<

OMG I couldn;t count the weight I have gained, lost and regained over the years. My thyroid must have been having a party with it's antibodies cause I always had to keep 5 sizes of clothing in the closet. Never knew from one week to the next what would fit. I will put some pics up in chronological order in the photos file.. You guys can delete them in a few weeks if you need the space. I keep saying I want to do a website with this story and photos but I haven;t got the "mood" (read=Concentration) to do it yet. LOL

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>>I gained 125 lbs in 12 years on $ynthroid. I have not been able to lose on Armour, but at least the gain has stopped. <<

OMG I couldn;t count the weight I have gained, lost and regained over the years. My thyroid must have been having a party with it's antibodies cause I always had to keep 5 sizes of clothing in the closet. Never knew from one week to the next what would fit. I will put some pics up in chronological order in the photos file.. You guys can delete them in a few weeks if you need the space. I keep saying I want to do a website with this story and photos but I haven;t got the "mood" (read=Concentration) to do it yet. LOL

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I am not sure if our settings will allow you to upload photos. You may have to send them to a moderator. After our experiences with spammers, we set the site so that only moderators could upload files. I am not sure if that includes photos. But, yes, I would be very interested in seeing your photos. T wrote:

>>I gained 125 lbs in 12 years on $ynthroid. I have not been able to lose on Armour, but at least the gain has stopped. <<

OMG I couldn;t count the weight I have gained, lost and regained over the years. My thyroid must have been having a party with it's antibodies cause I always had to keep 5 sizes of clothing in the closet. Never knew from one week to the next what would fit. I will put some pics up in chronological order in the photos file.. You guys can delete them in a few weeks if you need the space. I keep saying I want to do a website with this story and photos but I haven;t got the "mood" (read=Concentration) to do it yet. LOL

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