Re: taking cytomel and synthroid after RAI????

September 18, 2001

Hi Holly,

Tomorrow will be my 4th RAI in 21 months and I _always_ take 25mcg x 2

of Cytomel for the first five days back on Synthroid (.15), 25mcg x1 a day

for the next five days + the Synthroid, and 1/2 of a 25mcg of Cytomel x1 +

Synthroid for the third five days, after my treatment, as Dr. Ain and my

endocrinologist recommend. I have never had any type of adverse reaction,

and it sure makes me feel a whole lot better very quickly.

I do not have cardiac disease, so this makes it okay for me to use

this wonderful additional help.

Carolyn-NY

(See below from Dr. Ain)

Rapid relief of hypothyroidism is aided, in stable patients without

cardiac disease, by supplemental liothyronine (Cytomel) administered as a

tapering dose over two weeks. (Cytomel .25 twice daily for 5 days, then 12.5

twice daily for 5 days, then 12.5 once each morning for 5 days.)

September 18, 2001

Holly -

My endo not only told me NOT to take cytomel and synthroid together. In

addition, he instructed me to take HALF a normal synthroid dose for the

first two weeks. This was after the RAI, which was my first after the TT

in July.

I had the strangest and most sudden symptoms of the whole thyca adventure

after starting back on synthroid - hot flashes, insomnia, bad dreams.

After two weeks on synthroid, I finially started to feel 'normal' again.

Hang in there, you WILL be feeling better - it just takes time...

Dave

> I asked my endo whether or not it would be okay to take cytomel and

> synthroid together to help speed up the process of coming out of

> hypoland. He told me it was too dangerous to do this because it could

> cause cardiac arrest, yet I notice a lot of you out here are taking

> both at the same time. Anybody ever heard of that happening before?

> And if it does, then why are so many dr.'s prescribing them together?

>

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