Morning sluggishness

[Guest guest]

Hello! I'm into my second week on Armour (no functioning thyroid

gland due to RAI 20 years ago) and I've increased my dose to 2 grains

now. I think I'll continue to go up 1/2 a grain until I get to 3 then

hold for 6 weeks, get a new FT3/FT4/TSH done and reevaluate.

I'm trying to figure out how to split up my dose. I feel pretty brain

dead in the mornings and have a hard time getting going. So far I've

been taking half my dose around 6am and the other half around noon.

I was toying with the idea of either taking 2/3 of it in the morning

to try to get my levels a little higher, or perhaps it'd be smarter to

take it before bed? Although I have been having a little trouble

sleeping since I changed thyroid meds, so I'm afraid that pre-bedtime

might mess me up.

Any suggestions?

[Guest guest]

Actually taking some at bedtime seems to help many of us sleep better so maybe

that would be a good time.

*Artistic Grooming * Hurricane, WV

Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and

cackling, telling me, " You're next. " They stopped after I started doing the

same thing to them at funerals

[Guest guest]

>

> If 2/3 just makes you crash, then you will know that the problem is

> not that you aren't getting enough thyroid in the morning, but that

> you have slightly fatigued adrenals that are showing up due to the

> extra T3 in Armour.

Yeah, I've been undertreated probably ever since my RAI 20 years ago.

I had " normal " TSH, if you consider 2-ish normal and my FT3 was below

the range. No wonder I felt like crud, eh? My FT4 is pretty good though.

I'm probably still under-medicated but that's because I'm slowly

increasing my armour dose. I'm only on 2 grains and I figure that 3

grains is going to getting closer to my working range.

I intend to go see a hormone doctor at some point, like Rouzier in

Palm Springs, and I'll ask him to check out my adrenals. Is there

anything in the meantime I can do to help them out?