Re: Syndrome/Protocol

[Guest guest]

The moderators will give better answers than me, but the website is clear and

helpful and you have moderators and others here that can give you the day to day

help you need, in comparison to what your doctor is saying, that you essentially

have to do it on your own.

I'm biased, but day to day support is VERY helpful!

Welcome to the group,

Jeanne

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> I saw my new doc yesterday. He's a good doc, but for some reason wanted to do

his own labs instead of using the ones I had done 6 weeks ago. Those showed an

RT3 problem but the new doc wants to wait until the labs he ran come back before

switching me to Cytomel. I was quite frustrated by this yesterday and this

morning but have just decided to go with it for another week or 2. He did

switch me to a compounded desiccated and increased the dose from 1 gr (I had

been taking new Armour for about 1 month and then the last couple weeks Erfa) to

1 1/2 gr of the compounded. It did seem to help today. My heart has not been

pounding today like it has been. I have also been very depressed lately and

that seemed to get better as the day went on.

>

> Anyway, he says that if I do have an RT3 problem I should do 's protocol

but that I have to be familiar with it enough to oversee myself on it because he

can't micromanage me on it. I'm not wild about this and would prefer to use the

method at http://thyroid-rt3.com/dosing.htm because I already understand that

and it seems much simpler. I have enough trouble concentrating and

comprehending stuff in my everyday life, I don't really want to add something

that is going to require fulltime management. Also, I am a bit skeptical of

altogether. Something about him just doesn't sit right with me. My doc

is likely to listen to what I want to do and allow me to do that, but I'm

wondering what the feelings are here about using 's vs.

http://thyroid-rt3.com/dosing.htm.

>

[Guest guest]

I'm former patient of 2 different practitioners, both trained by him. I

followed his protocols for several cycles of therapeutic trials. It does require

being fully informed and you must manage your day-to-day use of the plan. But,

that's true here too. No way around it. He makes his patient read his book on

treating the condition so they can converse intelligently on follow up

visits.Not required here, but very, very helpful to learn as much as you to help

digest input/advice you receive.

Upside: within limits, it worked for me - put me in remission. Downside:

Sustained release T3 is expensive and often not covered by drug plans, I had

lots of periods of unsteadiness of dosage level with return of symptoms during

them and this is common, practitioners vary in their attention to the

other influences that must be addressed in many cases: cortisol deficiency, iron

deficiency +. Failing that, I always relapsed. Finally ended up here where those

issues are fully and usefully addressed.

As you might know, his books are available free on-line.

Lee

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> > I saw my new doc yesterday. He's a good doc, but for some reason wanted to

do his own labs instead of using the ones I had done 6 weeks ago. Those showed

an RT3 problem but the new doc wants to wait until the labs he ran come back

before switching me to Cytomel. I was quite frustrated by this yesterday and

this morning but have just decided to go with it for another week or 2. He did

switch me to a compounded desiccated and increased the dose from 1 gr (I had

been taking new Armour for about 1 month and then the last couple weeks Erfa) to

1 1/2 gr of the compounded. It did seem to help today. My heart has not been

pounding today like it has been. I have also been very depressed lately and

that seemed to get better as the day went on.

> >

> > Anyway, he says that if I do have an RT3 problem I should do 's

protocol but that I have to be familiar with it enough to oversee myself on it

because he can't micromanage me on it. I'm not wild about this and would prefer

to use the method at http://thyroid-rt3.com/dosing.htm because I already

understand that and it seems much simpler. I have enough trouble concentrating

and comprehending stuff in my everyday life, I don't really want to add

something that is going to require fulltime management. Also, I am a bit

skeptical of altogether. Something about him just doesn't sit right with

me. My doc is likely to listen to what I want to do and allow me to do that,

but I'm wondering what the feelings are here about using 's vs.

http://thyroid-rt3.com/dosing.htm.

> >

>

[Guest guest]

First we have found 's ot be a bit hard on Adrenals and the SRT3

he recommends is often VERY weak dependingon who compounds it, I do not

believe for a minute the perfect timing of doszes is a necessity and I

often fluctuate when I take my doses due to work and ebing busy and it

has nto affected my negatively in any way. The purpose of using T3 onyl

is ot overcome tissue resistcne and high RT3 levels we have a tendency

for especially if oyu have low ferritin or low por high cortiosl. BUT

there are SO many causes for high Rt3 we may never knw them all. I do

nto think for a minute we can EVER go off thyroid meds from this

protocol or ANY protocol. Most hypothyroid peopel DO have Hashi';s

though the antibpodies can be dormant for years., With Hashi's we will

always need thyroid replacement as it damages our thyroid glands

irrepairably.

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