Poll on what time we take our medication.

[chapers]

Well done on the poll and while I think this is a good idea I think it might have been equally useful to have asked "what time ". "Immediately on waking up " could be anytime and since I have read "Recovering with T3 " I have completely changed the time and method , eg I make a pointy of taking it between 5 -6 am I take half the the same around 2pm. I make sure I have eaten or drunk any thing with milk for at least an hour before an I chew it .

[humanbean]

The problem is there are limits on how many answers can be put into a poll. Only eight answers are allowed. And you have to cater for the people who take meds more than once a day.

[shaws Administrator]

I take my dose of T3 as soon as I awake. That's it till next morning. I am well with no symptoms.

[chapers in reply to shaws]

Yeah I guess that's it it's difficult to know what eight to choose and we are all different. Well done anyway.

[shaws Administrator]

I am not sure if it is a good way i.e. 'chew'. You might not be getting the amount of T3 you think. Excerpt:

The consensus? The active ingredients in thyroid medication have molecules that are so large that it is difficult for them to pass through the mucous membranes. Most of the dissolved/crushed medication ends up swallowed and moves through the digestive system in the usual way. Other factors also affect sublingual absorption, including oral pH, and salivary enzymes.

verywell.com/sublingual-thy...

Just for info:-

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[chapers in reply to shaws]

Thank you so much for all your continued help and advice. I think perhaps I miss led you with chew to be frank half a 20 mg tablet is impossible to chew but I sort of crush it in my mouth Paul Robinson suggested it in his book , I don't know if it's made any difference but for me it has certainly helped to take it in two doses and at certain times( Circadian method). Again I know you have to be careful and it is no use if you had Addisons which they thought I had originally and I was tested twice. Having read this I am not sure so perhaps will swallow.

However I must say that since reading his book and taking control I feel so much better. The hair on my body has returned and my eye lashes some hair on my head energy levels are so much better the, lichen planus still bad but vitiligo almost gone etc.

However I have an appointment with my Endo this week who I feel is not great and very rigid and we recently had an exchange of correspondence after a letter she sent about my condition had six errors in it including the wrong does of medication and referring to the vitiligo as "vertigo", she has always hated me having T3 that a previosous Endo agreed to so I wouldn't mind betting she refuses it.

Thanks again