Dizzy day after taking natural thyroid

May 7, 2010

Hi,

I posted this massage on the NaturalThyroidHormonesADRENALS-group and the answer

I got made me think it belongs better here.

My plan is to start natural thyroid since I have many hypothyroid symptoms.

I´ve been on HC for about 4 weeks (now 22,5 mg). My saliva cortisol was before I

started HC (I had been on Adrenal Cortex for a few weeks before testing):

8.00 5.3 ng/ml (4.8-9.5)

12.00 2.0 (2.0-3.6)

16.00 0.4 (1.2-2.8)

bedtime 0.2 (0.4-1.2)

DHEA pm 0.23 (0.3-1.0)

Bloodtests:

TSH 0.25 (0.27-4.2)

T3 4,8 (<6.8)

T4 19 (12-22)

24 Hour Urine:

T3 340 (592-1850)- very low according to the lab

T4 1974 (347-1994)

T3:T4 ratio 0.2 (0.5-2.0)- very low

I´ve been feeling better since starting HC but I can´t tolerate any thyroid.

I´ve tried with 1/8th of a grain (7,5 mg) and I get fatigued and dizzy, not

right away, but after a few hours and especially the day after. I´ve never tried

it for more than one day since I get bad results.

Could this be that need more HC or is it a RT3 problem?

gave me this answer:

These labs definitly indicate an RT3 issue. And a bad one. Are you r temps

stable on the hC? Have you don e an Iron panel wiht Ferritin? Low iron is a

common cause for high RT3 and I suspect it also may be a major cause of adrnela

fatigue.

So I called my doctor and I´m going to do a Iron panel. I checked my temps and

find they are rather stable on my HC-dose. Need to check a few more days. Will

ask a private doctor to order RT3 and free R3-tests as I don´t think my regular

doctor will give me more Thyroidtests since she thinks the bloodtests came back

perfect. She doesn´t consider the low T3 in the urine test.

or somebody else, is it low TSH and high T3 and T4 in bloodtest that

indicates an RT3 issue?

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