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Anyone been given T3 for depression?

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Has anyone been prescribed T3 for depression? Historically, it has been given to patients on anti-depressants and has been said to enhance them.

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Quite a few members have been prescribed anti-d's without their Free T3 being tested. I assume doctors might be unaware that T3 has been used for depression by psychiatrists (not necessarily with a thyroid gland dysfunction). These are two links:

drmirkin.com/morehealth/g17...

evolutionarypsychiatry.blog...

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There is a comment re anti-depressants/T3 in this link. Go to the date September 24, 2002

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

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Thank you Shaws. Very kind of you to look this up for me. I'm about to post again asking about NDT as well as T3 as I understand NDT has T3 in it.

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