What is up with my T4 deal?

July 15, 2003

Thanks for the replies about T4 being stored but not converted and

causing hyper or normal TSH levels. It is not that I do not trust my

doc but nothing beats other peoples personal experiences.

I had T# Cytomal today (6.25 am and then again pm) my doc had samples

of 25mcg Cytomal.

We came up wth a number to lower my Armour to (went to 90 split twice

a day from 120) I feel a world of difference already. I was taking

alternating doses of 135 then 120 of armour every other day but had

reading right on the edge of hyper but normal and still not feeling

right.

I have a theory and would like someone to comment.

Since I have between 1/3 and 1/2 of my throid left could I just take

enough T3 to make up the differnce?

Also could I just store and not use any of the T4 I was getting from

first Synthroid and now Armour and it just staying in my bloodstream

with no absorption but my body is using the T4 produced by waht

little thyroid I have left? Maybe my body does not like the T4 I get

from replacement but likes the T4 that is left from my thyroid.

As I have said before, I can feel a differnce almost immediately when

I take T4 and this could be due to it not absorbing but just getting

in my bloodstream and causing a false sense of speeding up kind of

like caffiene. If I am indeed just ingesting the T4, it circulating

through my bloodstream and not being used and excreating it, it

should only take a couple of days to get it out of my system. When I

say this I mean the T4 replacement that my body possibly does not

like.

From my past experience when I was on Synthroid only, my doc at the

time told me to come off it a couple of days and then restart and

everything would be ok. but after 2 nights I wound up in the er from

symptoms of no or very little thyroid replacement in me as test

results confirmed. Can anyone explain this? I know you are not even

suppoe to feel the T4 for a few days but I feel it instantly?

July 15, 2003

P.S.

Another thought is maybe I was toxic on the ammount of T4 I was taking in

Amrour. I may need a higher ratio of T3 than what I had on Amrour alone. Maybe

by dropping the armour to 90 split twice a day and adding 12.5 of cytomal split

twice a day will do away with hypo symptoms and balance the T4 to T3 ratio more

in favor of T3. This sound like a possiblility. I mean just from dropping the

armour down today and adding the cytomal, alot of my aches went away.