How much Armour to take?

February 23, 2004

I realize this is a very individual thing but I'm wondering how much

Armour people are taking especially men who are roughly the same

size as I am; 47 year old white male, 200 lbs, fairly athletic.

Here's the quick background....

Started taking Synthroid six years ago even through I felt pretty

good but my TSH was 54.9. The doctor told me, " take some Synthroid

and you'll feel even better " kind of like it was a vitamin

supplement or something. From the moment I started taking it I felt

worse. Doctor said " it takes time " . It did, it's taken all of my

time for the last six years.

Over the years I've tried Cortef for adrenal insufficiency, all

kinds of vitamins. Talked to the who's who or endocrinology,

Greenspan, Shames, Arem, Lowe. Varied doses of Synthroid from 137 -

225 with and without a small amount of Cytomel. There's no magic

dose. Tried timed release T3 only a la and that was

horrible.

The problem is I look GREAT!!!! But I feel terrible and live in the

fog now. Even reading is hard.

I seem to be most stable at 162 mcg of Synthroid with 5 mcg of

Cytomel but I still feel terrible. At that dose my TSH is almost

completely suppressed, around 0.4. I tried Armour briefly two years

ago but only got to 2gr/day.

So anyone care to share what they think my final/optimal dose of

Armour might be? I'm guessing somewhere between 3 and 6 gr/day.

What do you guess will be my therapeutic range?

Switched from 162Syn/5Cyt today to 3gr Armour. Wish me luck.

Thanks,

PS. Gave up on doctors and am self-medicating. A part of my

problem is probably too much self experimentation.

The only thing I think I haven't explored is two iffy root canals on

lower molars which bother me at times.

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