Evidence that T3 works - have any real world wide big guns written about this.

[Florie]

I write to ask this after reading Neeta-k blog. written earlier I take Cytomel prescribed by my GP. I am now worried that he is going to say he can't prescribe as I come under Telford NHS. I though that if I went with good written evidence it might just help to fight my case. If not can anyone tell me how much a private prescription costs and how it works.

I take 7 x 5 mcg per day. My life was a misery taking T4. depressed, painful joints, panic attacks, brain fog the list was endless. I had part of my thyroid removed in 1988. Diagnosed with Hashimotos 2 years ago. Saw Dr P who said I was not converting T4 to T3 . Life got so much better on Cytomel.

Thanks for any help

Florie

[shaws Administrator]

This is a link for prescription T3:-

healthunlocked.com/thyroidu...

I don't know if this would be classed as evidence:-

web.archive.org/web/2010103...

[Florie in reply to shaws]

Thank you shaws - very informative, looks like I will have to get a FAX machine

Florie

[sarah_p]

If you look on google scholar and type 't4 t3 combination thyroid' i managed to find some evidence x

[sarah_p in reply to sarah_p]

endocrine-abstracts.org/ea/...

nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/N...

[Florie in reply to sarah_p]

Thanks Sarah - I was looking for T3 versa T4 as opposed to combined t3 and T4. But I do appreciate your input and have saved the items for future reference if needed

Florie