Re: Can Reverse T3 block other hormone receptors??

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Do you take at least 3 or 4 days off from your estrogen and progesterone hormones at the end of each cycle? My doc told me this was necessary to allow the receptors to clear and reset so they can recieve the hormones again. For 1 year I was doing the Wiley protocol which does not have any days "off" from dosing and then i tried the 3 weeks on and 1 week off with very low dose and neither was good for me. Now i do a moderated (lower dose) version of the wiley rythmic dosing but also take 4 days off. This was working perfectly before i started the T3 only regimen despite my RT3 ratio being high. So my RT3 blocking my T3 did not seem to influence the workings of the BHRT/sex hormones. I don't know what method of BHRT you are doing but there is a great deal of variety of how and how much the dosing is done. getting it

right for you is the key and can take a lot of trial and error as well as testing to find the way and amounts that work best for you. I had the bad PMS symptoms when i had too much progesterone compared to the estrogen. However I also did not do well with a static dosing that had the same amounts of both every day for 3 weeks. Now I do estrogen only the first 2 weeks in a gradual rise then that drops down and the progesterone is added again in a gradual rise. So i am doing estrogen at a low steady level for weeks 2 and 4. I tried doing the wiley regimen at half the amounts but what has been best for me is the estrogen at 1/3 and the progesterone at 1/2 of the original wiley standard. Now I have a perfect 28 day cycle which feels like a miracle compared to the roller coaster i was on for 2 years trying to get it right. It all depends on what your own hormone levels are and how your body handles them. Everyone is going to be different in what works

best for them. Are you using transdermal bioidentical hormones? Even where you apply the creams can make a difference.

best of luck,

Sharon

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Subject: Can Reverse T3 block other hormone receptors??To: RT3_T3 Date: Friday, August 20, 2010, 11:17 PM

HI thereAnother random question from me down here in New Zealand!Just wondering if anyone knows if Reverse T3 can block other hormone receptors (other than t3, that is). The reason I am asking is that when I started Whole Thyroid Extract back in December 2009, along with Reverse T3 Dominance Symptoms, I began to experience severe nausea,vomiting, diarrhea and headaches just before ovulation and just before menstruation. I now believe that these are symptoms of hormone migraines.I know that estrogen can block t3 receptors and Im wondering if it can happen the other way round as well with Reverse T3 blocking estrogen receptors.I am also suffering from PMS type symptoms right from the moment I ovulate. Tests show that this is not because I am estrogen dominant (I supplement with progesterone anyway). And my doctor seems to think it might be because my estrogen receptors are blocked, so Im not getting the level of estrogen I need

to my cells (hence the migranes), and that the spare estrogen that is floating around is causing the PMS problems. My doctor thinks it might be excess progesterone blocking the receptors.I, on the other hand, wonder if1. The Reverse T3 is blocking my estrogen receptors and causing me to feel like I have low estrogen, which leads to migraines2. The Reverse T3 is blocking my estrogen receptors, so that in my luteal phase the estrogen I do make cant get to where it needs to go and causes things like breast tenderness right from the day of ovulation.BUT, the only thing that changed in my life, right before the onset of these migraines and PMS, was that I started the Whole Thyroid Extract. And this eventually led to me becoming very badly Reverse T3 DominantI also dont ovulate until about day 22/23. When I was well had a perfect 28 day cycle.Any thoughts? Anyone?Thanks

heapsjo

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OK first wrong assumption: Estrogen does NOT block T3 receptors. It

can create higher SHBG which BINDS T3 so ti si no longer " free " . I do

not think estrogen directly binds T3 though the distinction is not clear

in the information I have read. RT3 ONLY binds ot T3 receptors as it is

a form of T3 just reversed. The symptoms you are describing sound like

;low cortisol to me which often happens around your period due to

PROGESTERONE changes. Progesterone is the ONE main precursor to cortiosl

ad aldosterone thus if it si not optimal cortisol becomes MUCH lower

when progesterone drops. thus why so many women wiht adrneal fatogue

have such horrendous periods.

Your doc is close but no cigar! Progesterone CAN mimic cortisol and

bind to cortisol receptors creating a form of cortisol resistance, which

in turn will prevent your body being able to utilize T3.

OK here we are again drifting into an adrenal topic on this group,

Please wait till the adrenals group re-opens and we cna discuss this

further there.

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> HI there

>

> Another random question from me down here in New Zealand!

>

> Just wondering if anyone knows if Reverse T3 can block other hormone receptors

(other than t3, that is). The reason I am asking is that when I started Whole

Thyroid Extract back in December 2009, along with Reverse T3 Dominance Symptoms,

I began to experience severe nausea,vomiting, diarrhea and headaches just before

ovulation and just before menstruation. I now believe that these are symptoms of

hormone migraines.I know that estrogen can block t3 receptors and Im wondering

if it can happen the other way round as well with Reverse T3 blocking estrogen

receptors.

>

> I am also suffering from PMS type symptoms right from the moment I ovulate.

Tests show that this is not because I am estrogen dominant (I supplement with

progesterone anyway). And my doctor seems to think it might be because my

estrogen receptors are blocked, so Im not getting the level of estrogen I need

to my cells (hence the migranes), and that the spare estrogen that is floating

around is causing the PMS problems. My doctor thinks it might be excess

progesterone blocking the receptors.

>

> I, on the other hand, wonder if

> 1. The Reverse T3 is blocking my estrogen receptors and causing me to feel

like I have low estrogen, which leads to migraines

> 2. The Reverse T3 is blocking my estrogen receptors, so that in my luteal

phase the estrogen I do make cant get to where it needs to go and causes things

like breast tenderness right from the day of ovulation.

>

> BUT, the only thing that changed in my life, right before the onset of these

migraines and PMS, was that I started the Whole Thyroid Extract. And this

eventually led to me becoming very badly Reverse T3 Dominant

> I also dont ovulate until about day 22/23. When I was well had a perfect 28

day cycle.

>

> Any thoughts? Anyone?

>

> Thanks heaps

>

> jo

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