Interesting read

[HarryE]

home.comcast.net/~pmbrig/BP...

About thyroid, depression & bipolar

[Clutter]

Good find, Harry, thanks for posting.

I've been able to stop taking antidepressants to control my bipolar depression since adding T3 to T4.

[PinkNinja in reply to Clutter]

I was lucky enough to have a very knowledgeable psychiatrist who added T3 to my treatment (I wasn't diagnosed hypo at the time) with miraculous results

Unfortunately, once I was 'cured' the T3 was stopped and it all came back

[HarryE in reply to Clutter]

That's good! I'm hoping I won't need them too in future, but one step at a time

[PinkNinja]

My first experience with T3 was before I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism (although I had symptoms for years before this point) to treat a particularly severe depression, with psychosis, that would not respond to any amount of antidepressant medication, mood stabilisers or neuroleptics. T3 was added to enhance the effects of the massive dose of tricyclic antidepressants I was taking and I experienced what can only be described as a miraculous recovery. On the basis of this, when I was finally diagnosed hypothyroid I was treated with T3 only and experienced another miraculous recovery: I am not exaggerating!

Unfortunately, after several years being rather incapacitated after being told I could no longer have T3 and had to have Thyroxine "like everyone else", I think too much damage has been done to experience such a miraculous recovery as before but I am very much better on T3 nonetheless. I no longer experience any mental health symptoms

Apparently SSRIs Increase the availability of T3 in the brain. Coincidence? I think not!

Thanks for posting 😀

Carolyn x

[HarryE in reply to PinkNinja]

Mmmm, makes you wonder doesn't it? I have a long history of depression but as I suffered child abuse that's not surprising. But who knows whether it has been worse because of underlying thyroid issues. I had no obvious thyroid symptoms until I became poorly last year, but maybe I needn't have suffered quite so much

[PinkNinja in reply to HarryE]

What an awful thing to go through

[HarryE in reply to PinkNinja]

Well yes, but I'm in a lot better position than my brother. But I am determined to be open about it as the secrecy that surrounds it just makes it worse. It is not my shame to carry.

Thanks xx

[PR4NOW in reply to HarryE]

HarryE, I think I have mentioned to you before that Dr. Derry, MD, PhD in Neurochemistry, believed that abuse altered the biochemistry of a person. Unfortunately there is not a lot of research that I have found on this subject other than Derry's comments that NDT seemed to work better for most patients and from what I have learned some need T3 only. There also is no research that I am aware of on the epigenetic aspect. In reality, we know so little. Glad you are doing well. PR

[HarryE in reply to PR4NOW]

You have indeed PR, & I totally agree. I can't see how your body cannot be changed by being bathed in stress hormones from birth, it must have an effect, even if no one has yet proved it.