Guest guest Posted January 5, 2004 Report Share Posted January 5, 2004 Hi Catarina. Time-released T3 is prepared at a compounding pharmacy. It appears that only a few docs prescribe it, and one doc I read doesn't find it to be effective enough to prescribe it. Multi-dosing your Armour accomplishes some of that slow release anyway. Since you are already accustomed to T3 to some degree, it might be fine to start on 3 grains of Armour. On the other hand, if you suspect you have any kind of heart issues, even Mitral Valve Prolapse, you might consider starting on 2 grains, then rise to 3 within a few weeks. I am always on the side of caution myself. The vast majority of folks on natural thyroid don't even fool with adding T4. Janie aka ThyroDiva Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 21, 2009 Report Share Posted April 21, 2009 On the armour web site they equate 1 grain of armour with 25mcg of cytomel. Is this not a good conversion to use? Re: T3 Posted by: " " artisticgroomer@... valharly Mon Apr 20, 2009 3:26 am (PDT) 4 grains Armoru has 36mcg T3 in it so 40mcg a day would be YOUR starting dose. Some brands of T3 come in 20mcg size some come in 25mcg so what ever you have you can tailor your doses and raises to. I use 12.5mcg as most have the 25mcg size and it is easy to split that in half. A 5mcg raise is fine if that is all you can tolerate, but most once some of the RT3 and resultant adrenal stress is removed can tolerate 10-12.5mcg raises. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 21, 2009 Report Share Posted April 21, 2009 On the armour web site they equate 1 grain of armour with 25mcg of cytomel. Is this not a good conversion to use? Re: T3 Posted by: " " artisticgroomer@... valharly Mon Apr 20, 2009 3:26 am (PDT) 4 grains Armoru has 36mcg T3 in it so 40mcg a day would be YOUR starting dose. Some brands of T3 come in 20mcg size some come in 25mcg so what ever you have you can tailor your doses and raises to. I use 12.5mcg as most have the 25mcg size and it is easy to split that in half. A 5mcg raise is fine if that is all you can tolerate, but most once some of the RT3 and resultant adrenal stress is removed can tolerate 10-12.5mcg raises. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 21, 2009 Report Share Posted April 21, 2009 I have s;ight hair fall when ever I change a thyroid dose up or down, but never much so I htink it is more related to cortils or especially low ferritin that causes it than T3. -- Artistic Grooming- Hurricane WV http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/ http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/NaturalThyroidHormonesADRENALS/ http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/RT3_T3/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 21, 2009 Report Share Posted April 21, 2009 I have s;ight hair fall when ever I change a thyroid dose up or down, but never much so I htink it is more related to cortils or especially low ferritin that causes it than T3. -- Artistic Grooming- Hurricane WV http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/ http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/NaturalThyroidHormonesADRENALS/ http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/RT3_T3/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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