appt. w/Blanchard today

[Guest guest]

Hi all,

I'm back from a nightmare of a day. My beau took me to the appt. w/Blanchard

since I am barely functional and unable to drive. He said that all his patients

do differently with different treatment. He said some do well with Armour and

others very poorly and others do fine on straight T4 but the ones who don't are

the ones who land in his office.

He decided to start me on 50 mcgs. Levoxyl (he chooses the 50 mcg tabs because

they are free of dyes and he told me to start with 1/2 tablet and then he

prescribed a small dose of timed release T3 (not sure the dose) which we dropped

off at the compounding pharmacy and it will be ready tomorrow. He said to call

him in 3 weeks and report so he can tell me whether to double up on both the

Levoxyl and the T3. He also put me on 5000 iu of Vitamin D and told me I need

the light therapy as well. I got the lightbox today and am going to start

tomorrow morning.

I am truly walking around in a zombie state, sometimes unable to even think at

all. I can't concentrate or focus on anything and trying to manage the

slightest thing is like a mountain. I have no energy in my brain and my body is

very weak, esp. my muscles. I have shortness of breath with minimal exertion.

I hope this works for me and I can't wait to be back to the land of the living.

[Guest guest]

Yes I have trouble tolerating T3 and become very wired, but I also know that T3

is where my deficit lies because I have very high reverse T3.

Re:appt. w/Blanchard today

>>He decided to start me on 50 mcgs. Levoxyl (he chooses the 50 mcg tabs

because they are free of dyes and he told me to start with 1/2 tablet and

then he prescribed a small dose of timed release T3 (not sure the dose)

>>

>>I am going to treat myself with some cytomel in addition to Blanchard's

treatment. I know I have to.>>

Hi ,

Thanks for posting on your visit to Blanchard....sounds like he has a

protocol. You didn't say if you liked him or not? I've heard that the

ratio he prescribes of t4 to t3 is 98% t4, 2% t3.

Why do you feel you should take extra t3 at this point when you've had

trouble in the past with it? Wasn't that one of the reasons you went to

see Blanchard?

Dahlia

[Guest guest]

>>Yes I have trouble tolerating T3 and become very wired, but I also know

that T3 is where my deficit lies because I have very high reverse T3.

>>

Yes, but that is not a good reason to rush it. I hope you will go

slowly, everyone who's 'been there' and 'done that' has tried to go

fast--and it just doesn't work. You have to go slow, or you'll just have

a setback and then have to go even slower and extend your misery time.

I've been building my armour dose since the beginning of November of last

year and I'm only at 75 mgs! I had to do this b/c I crashed on t3 and

had to go off all thyroid meds, stabilize my hc dose, stabilize my temps

and then begin building thyroid. It works! I finally have energy,

stamina, no joint pain, no headaches, less brain fog, and am sleeping 9+

hours at night. I'm human again! I look forward to every day now b/c I

have enough energy to face it.

Believe me, I know it's not fun being hypo, but it is soooo much better

than being hyper and crashing.

hth,

Dahlia

[Guest guest]

Thanks Dahlia. I will take it slow as to move forward and not backwards.

Re: appt. w/Blanchard today

>>Yes I have trouble tolerating T3 and become very wired, but I also know

that T3 is where my deficit lies because I have very high reverse T3.

>>

Yes, but that is not a good reason to rush it. I hope you will go

slowly, everyone who's 'been there' and 'done that' has tried to go

fast--and it just doesn't work. You have to go slow, or you'll just have

a setback and then have to go even slower and extend your misery time.

I've been building my armour dose since the beginning of November of last

year and I'm only at 75 mgs! I had to do this b/c I crashed on t3 and

had to go off all thyroid meds, stabilize my hc dose, stabilize my temps

and then begin building thyroid. It works! I finally have energy,

stamina, no joint pain, no headaches, less brain fog, and am sleeping 9+

hours at night. I'm human again! I look forward to every day now b/c I

have enough energy to face it.

Believe me, I know it's not fun being hypo, but it is soooo much better

than being hyper and crashing.

hth,

Dahlia

[Guest guest]

,

Why do you have trouble tolerating T3? Thanks, Bernetta

-- Re: appt. w/Blanchard today

>>Yes I have trouble tolerating T3 and become very wired, but I also know

that T3 is where my deficit lies because I have very high reverse T3.

>>

Yes, but that is not a good reason to rush it. I hope you will go

slowly, everyone who's 'been there' and 'done that' has tried to go

fast--and it just doesn't work. You have to go slow, or you'll just have

a setback and then have to go even slower and extend your misery time.

I've been building my armour dose since the beginning of November of last

year and I'm only at 75 mgs! I had to do this b/c I crashed on t3 and

had to go off all thyroid meds, stabilize my hc dose, stabilize my temps

and then begin building thyroid. It works! I finally have energy,

stamina, no joint pain, no headaches, less brain fog, and am sleeping 9+

hours at night. I'm human again! I look forward to every day now b/c I

have enough energy to face it.

Believe me, I know it's not fun being hypo, but it is soooo much better

than being hyper and crashing.

hth,

Dahlia

[Guest guest]

I don't know. Val says it's still due to low ferritin. I keep taking the iron

everyday to build it up. T3 makes me feel wired and revved up and very scary

and uncomfortable. I am however very sensitive to all meds in general and maybe

the combination is doing it.

Re: appt. w/Blanchard today

>>Yes I have trouble tolerating T3 and become very wired, but I also know

that T3 is where my deficit lies because I have very high reverse T3.

>>

Yes, but that is not a good reason to rush it. I hope you will go

slowly, everyone who's 'been there' and 'done that' has tried to go

fast--and it just doesn't work. You have to go slow, or you'll just have

a setback and then have to go even slower and extend your misery time.

I've been building my armour dose since the beginning of November of last

year and I'm only at 75 mgs! I had to do this b/c I crashed on t3 and

had to go off all thyroid meds, stabilize my hc dose, stabilize my temps

and then begin building thyroid. It works! I finally have energy,

stamina, no joint pain, no headaches, less brain fog, and am sleeping 9+

hours at night. I'm human again! I look forward to every day now b/c I

have enough energy to face it.

Believe me, I know it's not fun being hypo, but it is soooo much better

than being hyper and crashing.

hth,

Dahlia

[Guest guest]

Ditto. Don't try to go fast, it won't work and you'll be sorry. I

tried to go up by 1/2 grain as I've seen advised many times, without

adrenal support, and got knocked back hard. I can't imagine what it

would have felt like to start on 1 grain and go up by a grain a week

as one of my docs advised but I can only assume that it would have

been very bad. I usually increase by 1/8 although I got away with 1/4

once.

--- In NaturalThyroidHormonesADRENALS , srapp785@...

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>

> Yes, but that is not a good reason to rush it. I hope you will go

> slowly, everyone who's 'been there' and 'done that' has tried to go

> fast--and it just doesn't work. You have to go slow, or you'll just

have

> a setback and then have to go even slower and extend your misery time.

>

> I've been building my armour dose since the beginning of November of

last

> year and I'm only at 75 mgs! I had to do this b/c I crashed on t3 and

> had to go off all thyroid meds, stabilize my hc dose, stabilize my temps

> and then begin building thyroid. It works! I finally have energy,

> stamina, no joint pain, no headaches, less brain fog, and am sleeping 9+

> hours at night. I'm human again! I look forward to every day now b/c I

> have enough energy to face it.

>

> Believe me, I know it's not fun being hypo, but it is soooo much better

> than being hyper and crashing.

>

> hth,

> Dahlia

>

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