When to start Armour

[Guest guest]

This is a copy and paste from the STTM site. There is no mention of

checking for stable temps. before re-introducing Armour. My question

is, do I take a small amount of Armour (starting at 15mg a week) after

I get up to the 15mg. of Cortef even if my temps are not steady?

IF I AM NOT YET ON DESICCATED THYROID, HOW LONG DO I USE THE CORTISOL

BEFORE I START ARMOUR:If you are not on natural desiccated thyroid

when you start cortisol, talk to your doctor about following the

schedule above, and after two weeks, or at the very least when you get

up to 15 mgs, it appears to be safe to start on one grain or less

Armour without having reactions. After starting Armour or other

desiccated thyroid, raise it in small amounts every few weeks to take

the stress off your adrenals.

[Guest guest]

>>My question

is, do I take a small amount of Armour (starting at 15mg a week) after

I get up to the 15mg. of Cortef even if my temps are not steady?<<

I think this depends on your symptoms. Low temps say below 97 would indicate you

need the Armour even before temps stabilize. But if starting it before they

stabilize, you need to be very cautious with going slow. Now more than 15MG then

if that goes well in another week introduce another 15 MG in a separate dose.

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I would try a tiny Armour increase no more than 15MG.

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[Guest guest]

When I started I was charting my temps.

http://www.drrind.com/tempgraph.asp#directions

I was all over the chart so I got some Isocort and followed the info on taking

Isocort or HC at this link.

http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/adrenal-info/how-to-treat

When I got up to 20mgs. of cortisol I started on Armour 45mgs you can try

30mgs. to start and every 2 weeks I went up 15mgs of Armour. When you get up to

2 grains or 120mgs hold for 4 weeks and get your Free T3 and T4 tested. And

post them here and go from there.

Phil

florida_native222 wrote:

This is a copy and paste from the STTM site. There is no mention of

checking for stable temps. before re-introducing Armour. My question

is, do I take a small amount of Armour (starting at 15mg a week) after

I get up to the 15mg. of Cortef even if my temps are not steady?

IF I AM NOT YET ON DESICCATED THYROID, HOW LONG DO I USE THE CORTISOL

BEFORE I START ARMOUR:If you are not on natural desiccated thyroid

when you start cortisol, talk to your doctor about following the

schedule above, and after two weeks, or at the very least when you get

up to 15 mgs, it appears to be safe to start on one grain or less

Armour without having reactions. After starting Armour or other

desiccated thyroid, raise it in small amounts every few weeks to take

the stress off your adrenals.

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[Guest guest]

Phil - You've become very helpful on this forum. I'm getting confused again

because I thought Val said to start out at 15mg of Armour being that my temps

are around 98.6...which, by the way, is consistent on the last two weeks of my

cycle. I'm an unusual case here.

philip georgian wrote:

When I started I was charting my temps.

http://www.drrind.com/tempgraph.asp#directions

I was all over the chart so I got some Isocort and followed the info on taking

Isocort or HC at this link.

http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/adrenal-info/how-to-treat

When I got up to 20mgs. of cortisol I started on Armour 45mgs you can try 30mgs.

to start and every 2 weeks I went up 15mgs of Armour. When you get up to 2

grains or 120mgs hold for 4 weeks and get your Free T3 and T4 tested. And post

them here and go from there.

Phil

florida_native222 wrote:

This is a copy and paste from the STTM site. There is no mention of

checking for stable temps. before re-introducing Armour. My question

is, do I take a small amount of Armour (starting at 15mg a week) after

I get up to the 15mg. of Cortef even if my temps are not steady?

IF I AM NOT YET ON DESICCATED THYROID, HOW LONG DO I USE THE CORTISOL

BEFORE I START ARMOUR:If you are not on natural desiccated thyroid

when you start cortisol, talk to your doctor about following the

schedule above, and after two weeks, or at the very least when you get

up to 15 mgs, it appears to be safe to start on one grain or less

Armour without having reactions. After starting Armour or other

desiccated thyroid, raise it in small amounts every few weeks to take

the stress off your adrenals.

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