RE: Re: Success on combination t3 and t4 and after rai

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Perhaps you need to increase your T3 - 20mcgs is a very small

dose. Ask your GP for an increase, but don't ever take any thyroid hormone

replacements the same morning as you have your blood drawn or it will give a

false reading. Your free T3 will be too high and your doctor will want to lower

your dose. Don't let him. He should know that T3 in humans has a half life of

just 2 days. However, the effect of T3 peaks in the blood a couple of hours or

so after taking it.

Do you have any thyroid function test results done recently so

we can see whether the inactive thyroid hormone T4 is converting to the active

T3. We would need the reference range for each test done Babs.

Luv - Sheila

Thats fantastic Dee, happy to hear you are in top form... gives me lots of

hope !!

I am also on combination, at the moment 75 mcg levothyroxine & 20mcg T3 I

am not so sleepy during the day but still haven't found motivation or strength

to do all the things that I 'think' about, my head is so very busy most days

but no staminia to follow through.

May your journey in good health continue.

Luv Babs

> I decided to take t3 alongside levothyroxine and started on 150mg levo

and 4o t3, within 4 weeks i felt a lot better and after 6 weeks my tsh was 3.1

and i feel more normal than i have in years.

> I also gave up smoking 7 weeks ago and enrolled in the gym, and am proud

to have lot my first stone.

> If someone had told me a year ago that i would be having rai, giving up

smoking and managing to lose weight too i would have laughed, i hope this helps

anyone that is struggling as i was not very long ago

> Take care

> Dee xx