Re: Should i lower dose?

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

As you say you may now be on too much thyroid, but also there is a lot of difference between 2 & 2.5 grains! You could easily take 2 & 1/4 grains (or not that easily as some makes do not break easily and 1/4 grains are expensive). I would drop back to 2 & if after a week or 2 (it can take that long to really know & you could feel bad for a couple of weeks but might need to stick it out – I can remember my endo telling me this when he suggested that I lower my dose - I felt terrible for a week or 2, but good afterwards so he was right).

Val

I'm wondering if i've now gone hyper, nothing major standing out except i get palps and pulse up to 88 for a while after i take my afternoon dose (1.5 am then 1 pm), mood ok but very short fuse and not exactly diarrhea but very soft stool. Maybe the 2 grain was the correct dose but I should also point out that i'm not sure Armour agrees with me as i can't crush it due to extreme itching when i took it this way. I'm waiting for Erfa which was luckily despatched last week before the email. Stay on current dose or lower? I'm due bloods again on 27th.Many thanks - x

[Guest guest]

I don't know if this helps or not but when I was on Armour, I took it

sublingually, letting it dissolve under my tongue.

[Guest guest]

Hi Val,

Thanks for input - it's been 2 days and i went back to 2 grains. I'm feeling

better already, the edginess is going and my pulse is down to 82. I'll keep on

Armour until i get my Erfa, thanks for the heads up that i might feel bad again

for a while. I did have a bad hangover type headache when i woke today which i

used to get before.

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> Hi ,

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> As you say you may now be on too much thyroid, but also there is a lot of

difference between 2 & 2.5 grains! You could easily take 2 & 1/4 grains (or not

that easily as some makes do not break easily and 1/4 grains are expensive). I

would drop back to 2 & if after a week or 2 (it can take that long to really

know & you could feel bad for a couple of weeks but might need to stick it out

†" I can remember my endo telling me this when he suggested that I lower my

dose - I felt terrible for a week or 2, but good afterwards so he was right).

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