T3 alone for 3 weeks

[GKeith]

I have been on thyroid meds for 30 years and I am presently supplementing as many vitamin-filled foods and T-3 alone as I can & have been for the past 11 days straight. The reasoning behind my strategy is that T4 gives me the worst headaches I’ve ever experienced & also lasts longer than “normal” headaches. The problems now are the T-3 alone.

It is much stronger than T4; three or four times I’m sure, and it “hits” me hard & fast but right where it counts, as when I lingualize my pills I actually, literally “feel” myself “losing” the partial “blindness” it gives me, as well as 75-80% of the headaches but I might soon have to again add 25 or 50 mcg of T4, as the T3 alone is killing me when it strikes and I, almost continually “need” the T3 because it does “clear my brain-fog,” within 15 minutes at worst, 5 or 6 at best.

My endo totally, has now, deserted me, stating that I need to look at my blood tests and I will see that I am “cured.” He, especially mentions the FT4 & FT3, which are actually not so good, last taken 3 weeks ago, while still on T4, T3 combo of 100 mcg T4 & 25 mcg T3.

FT4 -7.3, range 4.5-12.0 ug/dL

FT3 -170 range 71-180 ng/dL

Thyroglobulin Antibody <1.0 IU/mL 0.0-O.9

Immunoglobulin G, Qn 1054 mg/dL 603-1613 mg/dL

Anyway, I feel as if these headaches are also never-ending because they never fail, at least 3 times, usually 4, every 6 hours to hit me and hard. The thing is, like I said they disappear after maybe 5-10 minutes of T3. I take 10 mcg at 9 to 11 PM and then every 6 to 8 hours I take 71/2 mcg, which makes a total of 25mcg but now, lately, I’ve taken an extra 5 mcg, for 30 mcg T3, which attacks quicker. I gotta admit the partial blindness scares me but what else can I do?

My biggest, almost continuous, problem, is my neck: it always becomes so stiff I cannot, literally, for about the first hour, turn it sideways. The funny part is, of course, that in order to control the T4 headaches I have to take much more T3 pills. Anyway ever have any similar problems?