Re: Can anyone explain why my weight has gone up despite increasing T3

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Be very careful discussing weight and T3 (or any thyroid medication) at the same consultation.   GP's think we are asking for T3 as a slimming pill and it puts their backs up.    Even on the Armour information site it warns about not using them as slimming pills.     I guess it is because of the abuse body builders have made of it. 

LilianO

If my GP tells me that I am taking too much T3 I will certainly want to know why my weight has gone up and not down.

Kathleen

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Point taken Lilian, but for some of us this is a real issue. I have put on

19lbs since taking T3 and am overweight (by BMI) for the first time in my life.

I really want to find out why this is when I was expecting the opposite.

D

Be very careful discussing weight and T3 (or any thyroid medication) at the

> same consultation. GP's think we are asking for T3 as a slimming pill and

> it puts their backs up. Even on the Armour information site it warns

> about not using them as slimming pills. I guess it is because of the

> abuse body builders have made of it.

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> Lilian

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> > If my GP tells me that I am taking too much T3 I will certainly want to

> > know why my weight has gone up and not down.

> > Kathleen

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[Guest guest]

Hi

I would not even ask my GP to prescribe NHS T3, as it contains Sodium Chloride

which would increase my BP and would make my ankles swell even more increasing

my weight even more.

I would have also thought that decreasing prednisolone would have decreased my

weight let alone increasing T3, but its doing the opposite, and this is also

what Pimozide and T4 plus numerous other drugs did and I most certainly do not

want to put on another four.

Kathleen stone

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> Be very careful discussing weight and T3 (or any thyroid medication) at the

> same consultation. GP's think we are asking for T3 as a slimming pill and

> it puts their backs up.

> Lilian

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[Guest guest]

Shouldn't you be taking Vitamin D3 about 4000 IU daily - and not

vitamin D2 Kathleen?

Luv - Sheila

Despite increasing T3 slightly and decreasing

Prednisolone slightly my weight has gone up. I also take Vitamin D2 1000IU, a

vegetarian multivitamin and mineral, and last night started on a vegetarian

Selenium 200ug.

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[Guest guest]

HI SHEILA

I was not very good on D3 even the D3 that I bought I did not do very well on,

but D2 has had no ill effects. No tests have even been done on vitamin D since.

It could be due to the fact that I am vegetarian that D3 is of animal origin and

D2 is not.

I have Viridian D2 1000 IU and they state that it is just as good as D3.

What would be the equivalent of D3 to D2.

Kathleen

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> Shouldn't you be taking Vitamin D3 about 4000 IU daily - and not vitamin D2

> Kathleen?

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> Luv - Sheila

[Guest guest]

Kathleen, listen to Dr Mercola talking about Vitamin D. He

emphasises strongly that you take Vitamin D3 and NOT vitamin D2.

It is your choice to be vegetarian so don't see how or why

that could be a reason for D2 being better for you than D3.

http://tanningbeds.mercola.com/tanning-beds/standup-tanning-systems.aspx?e_cid=20120106_FNL_ban_HL

Luv - Sheila

I was not very good on D3 even the D3 that I bought I did not do very well on,

but D2 has had no ill effects. No tests have even been done on vitamin D since.

It could be due to the fact that I am vegetarian that D3 is of animal origin

and D2 is not.

I have Viridian D2 1000 IU and they state that it is just as good as D3.

What would be the equivalent of D3 to D2.

Kathleen