Re: Success on combination t3 and t4 and after rai

[Guest guest]

That is wonderful Dee, I am so happy for you.   I am sure your story will be encouraging for many of us.Lilian

[Guest guest]

Lovely story and what an acheivment after having RAI you've done yourself proud...

Jaki

I have to just share this with you all after all your fantastic support. I have had graves disease for 8 years and spent those years feeling so ill. I had radio active iodine treatment a year ago and went underactive very quickly with my tsh I battled against my gp for t3 and eventually he gave in

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.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 agoTake care Dee xx

[Guest guest]

This is what I like to hear Dee - well done and long may your

improved health continue.

Luv - Sheila

I have to just share this with you all after all your

fantastic support. I have had graves disease for 8 years and spent those

years feeling so ill. I had radio active iodine treatment a year ago and went

underactive very quickly with my tsh I battled against my gp for t3 and

eventually he gave in

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.

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

[Guest guest]

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

[Guest guest]

I was taking 100mcg Levothyroxine & 30mcg T3 when this test was taken, I had a

run in with the locum Nurse that day, I explained to her that the Consultant

Endo had ordered the test because I was under trial with T3 but I had forgot to

bring the Bio envelope the consultant gave me, these were the results?

No meds taken before the test

TSH 0.10 (0.35 – 5.00)

Free T4 11.5 (9.0 – 21.0)

No results for Free T3 or Total T3

The Lab notes states :- THY: Either adequate or slight over-replacement with

thyroxine.

Is the patient clinically euthyroid?

Levothyroxine was then reduced to 75mcg and T3 remained the same (30mcg) sorry

my last post says 20 mcg typo error- must have been in sleep mode :-)

Luv Babs

" Sheila " <sheila@...> wrote:

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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.

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> Luv - Sheila

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