t3 only

[markgreenhill]

hi i was wondering how many of you have done this t3 only to clear rt3 out the body. im having a rough time on this is it ment to be rough at the start??

[radd]

Mark,

I haven't followed a T3 program to reduce RT3 but read it can be a rough ride. I am sorry to hear you are suffering so bad.

The program dictates you can't medicate any T4 to reduce the risk of further RT3 but because you already have elevated RT3, it is difficult of your body to tolerate the correct amount of T3 required to function normally.

Therefore, you are expected to medicate a reduced amount of T3 and suffer hypo symptoms. After about six weeks the RT3 will have reduced drastically, so the T3 you are medicating will suddenly start to work a lot better. This is when you have to be careful not to become hyper .

As already explained if you take more T3 than you body can tolerate, (ie it can't get into receptors) it will float about in your blood stream which produces more unwanted side effects as your liver can only process a limited amount of unwanted, which is excreted in urine & faeces..

Taking antioxidants (milk thistle, etc) will aid your liver to deal with all this. I chelated mercury and lead last year and found antioxidants extremely helpful. Selenium is also known to help and advocated by STTM.

If it becomes too much, you can add T4 and still reduce levels of RT3 through diet and supplementing but obviously this method takes many many months longer and isn't fail safe.

Good luck.

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This isn't a very credible link - just someones experience but if you google you will find much the same experience from others.

misslizzy.me/when-normal-th...

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There is also a yahoo reverse T3 group where you may find more experienced people.

[markgreenhill in reply to radd]

hi rad,

that was very helpful thanks,your righting saying we cant tolerate much t3 i certainly cant.i guess i'm going to have to just put up with it right now and hope for the best.i didn't think it would be this hard tbh,i was going bad ways on ndt after a good start.so this looks like the only way.i hope to cycle of t3 once it all cleared. thanks for your help. mark

[mischa in reply to markgreenhill]

There is another school of thought on RT3 on TiredThyroid and how to deal with it.

[humanbean in reply to radd]

The misslizzy link has another link within it to thyroid-rt3.com. This site has been superseded by thyroidrt3.com/

As the owner of that site mentions :

Welcome to the new home of what used to be thyroid-rt3.com. My hosting company took my money and failed to secure the domain so we have moved here.

[humanbean in reply to humanbean]

This site is another potentially useful one as well : rt3-adrenals.org/index.html

[Jefner]

Clutter did it i believe

[Clutter]

Markgreenhill,

I had a build up of T4 but as I didn't have a blood test I can't say that it was high rT3 although it may have been. I didn't feel any better or worse 8 weeks after stopping T4 and taking T3 only only. I then stopped T3 for 4 weeks and it wasn't until the end of the 2nd week off meds that symptoms began to improve and they completely cleared by the end of the 3rd week off meds. Symptoms resumed within hours of starting T4 so it can't have been high rT3 but the symptoms resolved when I added T3 to T4 and seemed to calm the adverse effects.

[markgreenhill]

test results said i high rt3 sorry took so long to reply im not feeling great at all. feeling really funny and well my brains fogs so bad aswell and i feel shaky and ill. might increse my does aboit 2moro cause i cant keep on like this. can i stop t3 only at any time i want?? i mean stop all meds???

[loueldhen in reply to markgreenhill]

Not clear whether you're taking T4 as well. But I offer my experience. I had terrible problems on T4 (which I didn't realise were related to T4). In desperation (of everything) i gave up taking T4 and discovered after just a couple of days that i felt improved. I took no medication for a few months but was grinding to a complete halt, TSH was 98 etc. Finally had to pay to see an endo because I thought I might die before the NHS appointment came up. He started me on T3. Clearly by this time i would have cleared anything that had occurred as a result of the T4 i had taken for 10 years. I am now on 40 mcg of T3 per day and am functioning way better than on T4 - but not 'there' yet.

[humanbean]

I did T3 only when my reverse T3 was well over the range. I started on a tiny dose - 1/4 tablet - and rapidly increased. I could barely walk or talk on tiny doses of T3. I had to go up in dose just to be able to stay upright and walk.

I don't regret doing T3-only to reduce my reverse T3. I did "go hyper" on it after a couple of months and that was unpleasant. Once that happened and I dropped back then stopped the T3 for a while, I discovered I could only tolerate small doses of T3. But despite that I felt far better than I had done for several years. I did then spend a short time on no treatment at all, then faffed about on NDT, T3 only, NDT again, and now I take mainly NDT with a tiny dose of T3 just before bed.

At the time I had the high reverse T3 I had severe non-thyroid health problems as well, which would have altered the way my body handled thyroid hormones. I'm certain it didn't help!

[markgreenhill]

thanks for your reply,this is how im feeling right i think il up my dose 2moro and see how i go i think it was nice to read that its give me some hope thanks mark