Guest guest Posted March 1, 2010 Report Share Posted March 1, 2010 Yes it sounds like thyrodi resistance for sure and neither doctor knows a thing abotu it. I would order the test yourself if they won't. A list of labs you cna use is in our LINKS section from the main website of this group. -- Artistic Grooming- Hurricane WV http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/ http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/NaturalThyroidHormonesADRENALS/ http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/RT3_T3/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HypoPets/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 1, 2010 Report Share Posted March 1, 2010 It sounds like you need a rt3 test.A high t3 is a great thing to have. But if the reason you have high t3 is due to a reverse t3 problem then you are going to get more sick taking any thyroid medication that has t4 in it. I would test free t3 and reverse t3 ASAP. What are your adrenals and ferritin like? Sky To: RT3_T3 Sent: Tue, 2 March, 2010 10:11:23 AMSubject: explain r t3 testing HI, My question is - when or why do you test R-T3? I saw a new endo who told me that the test wasn't for me because I wasn't sick and because I had been self medicating w/Thyroid S there would be no point.My family dr. recommended her because I have very high estrogen levels and he also wrote, suppressed TSH but a high T3. (I thought that those 2 things went together for supposedly hyper) It was strange because both agreed that I would need some supplementation. I have been taking 5 grains of thyroid S and still feeling crappy, I could (and have in the past) taken 10 grains and not felt better. When I first started in 2004 3 grains was fantastic, no fibro pain. Wouldn't this be a R-T3 problem of Thyroid S no longer getting rid of my symptoms? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 >I have been taking 5 grains of thyroid S and still feeling crappy, I could (and have in the past) taken 10 grains and not felt better. When I first started in 2004 3 grains was fantastic, no fibro pain. >Wouldn't this be a R-T3 problem of Thyroid S no longer getting rid of my symptoms? Sounds like RT3 to me, I was up at 12 grains of Armour before I came here. A FT3 test and an RT3 test taken at the same time and then check the relative ratio between them will prove it Alternatively just do what I did and swap to T3 anyway to see how it works for you! It sounds like you've been down the self medication route before, T3 is cheap, $49 for 300 plus about $10 postage. Nick -- for more information on RT3 and Thyroid Resistance go to www.thyroid-rt3.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 I also felt great back when I started on Natural Thyroid. For a while...then I felt lousy again. Looks like an RT3 problem, which my Dr. was utterly ignorant about, but I am now, hopefully, in the process of resolving. (My Dr. was not only ignorant but also inexcusably dismissive, she " didn't believe " in RT3. Like it's Santa Claus or something, not a measurable, treatable medical problem.) I also seem to have (in ADDITION to the RT3 one) another " thyroid resistance " problem. Cause unknown but treatment the same regardless...T3 only dosing as recommended on this group. http://thyroid-rt3.com/dosing.htm I am replying to you because your experience is astonishingly similar to mine...feeling great when starting Natural Thyroid (my fibro pain went away, too! Yay!), but then...splat, right back to chronic pain and exhaustion, with Natural Thyroid doing nothing to help. I have been trying for three years to figure out why Natural Thyroid stopped working. I hope to get better on this T3 only protocol. I hope you get better, too. > > HI, My question is - when or why do you test R-T3? I saw a new endo who told me that the test wasn't for me because I wasn't sick and because I had been self medicating w/Thyroid S there would be no point. > > My family dr. recommended her because I have very high estrogen levels and he also wrote, suppressed TSH but a high T3. (I thought that those 2 things went together for supposedly hyper) It was strange because both agreed that I would need some supplementation. > > I have been taking 5 grains of thyroid S and still feeling crappy, I could (and have in the past) taken 10 grains and not felt better. When I first started in 2004 3 grains was fantastic, no fibro pain. > Wouldn't this be a R-T3 problem of Thyroid S no longer getting rid of my symptoms? > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 I also felt great back when I started on Natural Thyroid. For a while...then I felt lousy again. Looks like an RT3 problem, which my Dr. was utterly ignorant about, but I am now, hopefully, in the process of resolving. (My Dr. was not only ignorant but also inexcusably dismissive, she " didn't believe " in RT3. Like it's Santa Claus or something, not a measurable, treatable medical problem.) I also seem to have (in ADDITION to the RT3 one) another " thyroid resistance " problem. Cause unknown but treatment the same regardless...T3 only dosing as recommended on this group. http://thyroid-rt3.com/dosing.htm I am replying to you because your experience is astonishingly similar to mine...feeling great when starting Natural Thyroid (my fibro pain went away, too! Yay!), but then...splat, right back to chronic pain and exhaustion, with Natural Thyroid doing nothing to help. I have been trying for three years to figure out why Natural Thyroid stopped working. I hope to get better on this T3 only protocol. I hope you get better, too. > > HI, My question is - when or why do you test R-T3? I saw a new endo who told me that the test wasn't for me because I wasn't sick and because I had been self medicating w/Thyroid S there would be no point. > > My family dr. recommended her because I have very high estrogen levels and he also wrote, suppressed TSH but a high T3. (I thought that those 2 things went together for supposedly hyper) It was strange because both agreed that I would need some supplementation. > > I have been taking 5 grains of thyroid S and still feeling crappy, I could (and have in the past) taken 10 grains and not felt better. When I first started in 2004 3 grains was fantastic, no fibro pain. > Wouldn't this be a R-T3 problem of Thyroid S no longer getting rid of my symptoms? > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 I also felt great back when I started on Natural Thyroid. For a while...then I felt lousy again. Looks like an RT3 problem, which my Dr. was utterly ignorant about, but I am now, hopefully, in the process of resolving. (My Dr. was not only ignorant but also inexcusably dismissive, she " didn't believe " in RT3. Like it's Santa Claus or something, not a measurable, treatable medical problem.) I also seem to have (in ADDITION to the RT3 one) another " thyroid resistance " problem. Cause unknown but treatment the same regardless...T3 only dosing as recommended on this group. http://thyroid-rt3.com/dosing.htm I am replying to you because your experience is astonishingly similar to mine...feeling great when starting Natural Thyroid (my fibro pain went away, too! Yay!), but then...splat, right back to chronic pain and exhaustion, with Natural Thyroid doing nothing to help. I have been trying for three years to figure out why Natural Thyroid stopped working. I hope to get better on this T3 only protocol. I hope you get better, too. > > HI, My question is - when or why do you test R-T3? I saw a new endo who told me that the test wasn't for me because I wasn't sick and because I had been self medicating w/Thyroid S there would be no point. > > My family dr. recommended her because I have very high estrogen levels and he also wrote, suppressed TSH but a high T3. (I thought that those 2 things went together for supposedly hyper) It was strange because both agreed that I would need some supplementation. > > I have been taking 5 grains of thyroid S and still feeling crappy, I could (and have in the past) taken 10 grains and not felt better. When I first started in 2004 3 grains was fantastic, no fibro pain. > Wouldn't this be a R-T3 problem of Thyroid S no longer getting rid of my symptoms? > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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