After 7 weeks of taking only T3 a very high FT3: 14 (3.5-6.5) What to do?

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Some results:

Date: 1/12/2010 (I was taking T4 hormone that time.)

TSH 1.10(0.4-2.5)

FT4 1.4(0.9-1.8)

FT3 2.88(1.8-4.2)

rT3 43.7(9-35)

Ft3/rT3 ratio is 6.8

Date 1/29/2010:

Ferritine 130 (5-200)

Date 1/29/2010:

Saliva test result:

7am-9am(8.40): 0.55 range: 0.27-1.18

11am-1pm(12.30): 0.35 range: 0.10-0.41

3pm-5pm(4): 0.85 range: 0.05-0.27

10pm-12am(11): 0.06 range: 0.03-0.14

Date 3/24/2010:

FT3 14 (3.5-6.5)

I am going to take T4,TSH and electrolytes (potassium and sodium) tests on next

Monday 3/29.

The T3 I am taking is Liothyronin by Nycomed. It is sold in the Nordic

countries. I have no idea how potent it is.

I have been taking only T3 for seven weeks. I started with 10 mg per day and

increased it 10 mg every fourth day, last week the daily

dose was 130 mg (split into 5 equal parts through day). I gave blood sample for

the FT3 test last Wednesday morning

and the latest T3 dose I took before the test was the night before. I got the

result FT3 14 (3.5-6.5) last Friday,

took 50 mg in that morning and have not taken any since then.

An observation: The first two weeks of taking T3 I was feeling each day better

and better: I slept better, had no

muscular aches and a good muscle pump while exercising, I was hungry, in general

I was feeling better than before.

After those two weeks during the following two weeks I started feeling little by

little more and more depressed

(including suicidal thoughts), muscular aches came back and a new kind of

dizzyness appeared. I thought that it was due

to a lack of T3 and so I increased dose and the dizzyness and the suicide

thoughts disappeared. Last two weeks I am

sleeping very bad (difficult to fall and stay asleep, sleep is superficial and

unquiet), having muscular aches. Some days, like today, I have anxiety, fear and

panic and I feel hopeless, all what I want to do is to cry.

My heart rate in rest is about 70 bpm today. It was about 80 bpm three days ago

when I stopped taking T3.

What is the explanation? What kind of dose should I take from now on? Would

changing the medicine make any difference? What tests should I take? How should

I

proceed?

Thank you for your support.

Pietari