T3 and dosage level relative to mental activity

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Hi

One of our hobbies is a dance activity which is mentally a lot more demanding

than it is physically demanding (because it requires a lot of thinking on the

fly). Since my wife had a partial thyroidectomy, she finds it a lot harder to

cope and, over the course of 3 hours, her ability to concentrate and cope

physically progressively diminishes and she then usually has to take another T3

a lot earlier than she would otherwise do. The same also applies when,

occasionally, she does catering for about 40 (which requires a lot of planning

and multi-tasking).

Basically, from our experience, the dose of T3 seems to be activity dependent

(especially mental activity). So, depending on what she's going to be doing over

the course of the day, she will either take the usual dose or she will up it by

10 to 20mcg. Her usual medication, after experimenting with T4 only and T4/T3,

is 50T4 and 30T3 (3 doses of 10 T3 daily) and that is fine for most of the time

including when we go for a walk for an hour or so - in other words, physical

activity is not that much of a factor in terms of depleting the T3.

I suppose what I am saying is that our experience suggests that T3 depletion

seems to be linked with the level of mental activity being undertaken on any

given day. Does this mirror anyone else's experience? Does any one know of any

research being done in this area?

TC