Armour has arrived! Very nervous and sleep deprived. . When is a good time to take it ?

I have taken NDT once daily dose and it suited me fine.

T3 after it has gone into our receptor cells, the effect of it lasts between 1 and 3 days. This is from a link re Armour or any NDT:

Dr. Lowe: The answer is that the endocrinologist is mistaken; the peak T3 level is not a problem. The only time Armour causes adverse effects is when a patient takes too much for her as an individual—just as when she takes too much of any other thyroid hormone product, including Synthroid.

We’ve observed many hundreds of patients taking products that contain T3. Despite our careful inquiries of many of these patients, we’ve never heard complaints of adverse effects that could credibly be ascribed to peak T3 blood level.

My impression is that most endocrinologists have had little-to-no clinical experience with T3-containing products. Perhaps because of that, they haven’t learned that the adverse effects from peak T3 levels that they so often warn against seldom if ever occur. Their false belief that adverse effects do occur, however, serves well the financial interests of corporations that market T4 products, such as Synthroid. Some endocrinologists may not be cognizant of it, but when they parrot this false belief, they’re taking part in their profession’s quid pro quo for the enormous financial and nonfinancial incentives that T4-marketing corporations lavish on their specialty. (I document this in my soon-to-be published book Tyranny of the TSH.)

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" This information is accurate—when plain, full-strength, one-time-per-day doses of T3 are used properly, there are no adverse effects. The only adverse effects occur when a patient takes a dosage that for her is excessive. With Cytomel, if overstimulation occurs, it can be stopped with one or two small doses of propranolol. Or the patient can simply reduce her dosage of Cytomel the next time she takes it. I want to emphasize, however, that when our protocol is used properly, there is no overstimulation to be avoided by using timed-release T3. The protocol has safeguards against adverse effects.

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Some members do prefer to split their doses.

Yes, leave a good hour before anything other than water. I'd take it in early morning, partly because you're not sleeping well at night and you'd be over-stimulated taking it at bedtime.

Take a note of BP, pulse, temperature, and weight; but don't get too bogged down with temperature readings meaning anything especially relevant. Blood tests are the only meaningful measurement.

I am concerned because if you have really low Aldosterone, which Florinef is used to treat, you need to know why. I suspect that it is due to low thyroid levels tho, unless you have Adrenal Gland Disease, which is very rare. Any time you take a hormone, like Flud. your body stops it's own production. I have a Pituitary issue and have done a lot of research on Cortisol and Aldoesterone etc.. I tend to agree with ray peat :

Ray Peat wrote:

“Thyroid is needed for the adrenals to function well, and adequate cholesterol, as raw material. It’s popular to talk about ‘weak adrenals,’ but the adrenal cortex regenerates very well. Animal experimenters can make animals that lack the adrenal medulla by scooping out everything inside the adrenal capsule, and the remaining cells quickly regenerate the steroid producing tissues, the cortex. So I think the ‘low adrenal’ people are simply low thyroid, or deficient in cholesterol or nutrients.”

— Raymond Peat, PhD

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