Re: Increasing too fast?

[Guest guest]

I appreciate your time Nick and I think I understand. Currently I am taking

12.5mcg three times a day at 5:15, 10:00 and 2:00 or 3:00 and then at bedtime I

take 6.25 mcg with my last pellet of Isocort. I have done this for four days

now. I was quite hypo on ERFA because I could never comfortably increase my

dose, so feeling hypo is nothing new for me and the Cynomel has mostly made me

feel better. Yesterday, I did have warmer temps and in the afternoon I had a

heart rate of 90 bpm for about an hour and I finally made a big glass of warm

salted water which calmed the heart rate within an hour. Today my first temp was

98 which is almost unheard of for me first thing in the morning, so I am

encouraged.I guess my next increase will be to add a quarter Cynomel to each

dose in one week, right? and I am thinking I will do that with the bedtime dose

as taking it at that time is helping me avoid that midnight wake up I have grown

accustomed to. No one ever told me T3 clears at midnight until Val said

something the other day.

So far, and I am only a few days in to T3 only, I feel like I finally have

discovered the underlying issue that has kept me from optimal treatment for

almost 20 years and with the help of this site I will get through this and get

better and better. Thanks to everyone for all the great information and I read

and reread the collected information at RT3_T3 site.

Kris

> >With a ratio of 12 would I be okay to increase more quickly? I also take

some Isocort with each dose (4,3,2,1). I also read in the book by Brownstein

that T3 clears the body rapidly, so if you did increase too quickly would you

know it right away or does it build up and hit you like a Mack truck?

Kris

Nick replied:

> We always recommend taking it cautiously, I overshot for a day when I started

as I felt less straight after taking T3 than I used to feel

taking Natural. My working theory is that I was so resistant to T3

that I was feeling a kick from the T2 in the natural. Generally T3 will

stabilize in the body 3 days after a small increase. Over a week or so the T4

levels in the body will sink and cancel that increase out.

If you are feeling hypo then you can increase at 3 day intervals to

clear the hypo symptoms and then go over to weekly intervals.

Most people won't feel the starting dose, it's only as it increases

they feel the effect. As some people are more sensitive than " most

people " then starting low and edging up looking for symptoms is the

safest way to suggest it.

I hope these rambles make sense.

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> Nick