Re: My Story/Sythroid Split like Armour?

July 11, 2003

Hi again HD-

Synthroid has a long 1/2 life (6 days) so it stays constant over the day.

You'd just be making more work for yourself if you split doses.

T3 is different because it's 1/2 life is so short (3/4 of a day) and it's a

good idea to split the dose so you don't yo-yo throughout the day. Since

there's T3 in Armour, you should take it twice a day instead of once. If

Armour only had T4, you wouldn't have to.

Take care,

> After 8 years I have finally found out on my own about splitting my

> Amrour dose and as I said it did help. After reading up on all the

> info. I could.I got my doc to add Synthroid 3 days ago(25mcg) and I

> started on half of that (adding 12 mcg synthroid to 120 Armour)

> It will probably end up needing at least the full 25mcg

> Is it ok to take half of the synthroid in the am and the other half

> in the pm like I do my Armour portion of my replacement?

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