Re: Addition of T4 or T3--Margreet and others

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Hi Margreet! Hey, that's not 2 cents worth! That's $100 worth of

good info!! grin. That's what is so great about this group.

Let me clarify something here, just in case there is a

misunderstanding with new folks: it is wonderful if folks try adding

T4 to their Armour, and get good results. A few here have done just

that, and it has worked.

What I am trying to tell folks is that before you consider adding T4

to your Armour, at LEAST try upping your Armour to see if the raise

removes the lingering symptoms. THEN, if you find you'd like to

experiment adding the T4, go for it!!

Of, like yourself, if raising causes issues that don't seem to

working right, then adding the T4 might do the trick. It sure is

great to hear what it did for you!!

Over the 2 years that this site has been existence, I've seen a few

folks fail to go high enough with their Armour, still complaining of

symptoms and thinking the Armour wasn't doing the job. Once they

raised, the symptoms abated. And by raising the Armour, folks get

the benefit of the added T4 plus the added T3, T2, T1 and calcitonin.

There is a possibility that you are converting, Margreet, and that

adding the T4 helped because you are converting. And maybe, upping

the Armour the way you did didn't work because it was too much

direct T3. Who knows. Don't you wish we had a doc here who had ALL

this knowledge and could give us the biological info we need!! LOL.

Margreet, you had painful breasts when you were on 1/2 Armour and

1/2 T4?? How much of each were you on?? That is interesting. Painful

breasts are usually due to estrogen dominance, so it makes you

wonder why you would have estrogen dominance when you had, in

essence, lowered your direct T3 because of the lowering of Armour.

hmmmmm There is so much to learn!!

Janie

> For me it's the same, I tried upping Armour to my highest limit,

but

> I could never get it right. There were many positive changes, but

I

> remained unbalanced. Because of you I added 25 mcg levoxyl

(reduced

> a little with the Armour)and it made a huge difference. I felt

> fabulous for the first time in 6 years! I felt great for an entire

> month. Who could believe that? So I thought, let's see what

happens

> if I add more T4. So I reduced my Armour even more and added more

> T4, since I've read some people take half/half and feel better

with

> that too. But that was too much of the good thing for ME ...

hehehe.

> It wasn't working, it wasn't working AT ALL. My body is just not

> converting any T4 I guess. So I have no clue why the 25 mcg does

> it's job, but it does.... and I'm very thankful to you for

> mentioning this.

>

> Just my two cents for this discussion ......

>

> I'm still recovering from my last experiment, (half Armour/half

> Levoxyl), severe astma and painful breasts, muscle pain and

> weakness. BAD. I have it for 5 weeks already. I'm very tired of

> being sick ....

>

> Margreet.