W P thyroid dosage help please. I'm on 5 trains which I split during the day and still don't feel well.

[Poonam1]

Hi all

Please can anyone help with dosage to treat oedemous tissue in legs ankles and upper arms. I'm on 5 grains, which are split during the day, but I haven't had success with feeling better or weight loss. I have hashimotos/hypothyroidism. Please help I might having a really hard time.

Poonam

[Heloise]

Hi Poonam, Can you tell us more like how long you have been on that dose and how did you arrive at it. I'm guessing something is not working for you. You may not be converting the T4 portion of the NDT or the T3 portion is not entering cells. Did you get up to 5 grains too quickly? I'm thinking a lot of that 5 grains is turning into reverse T3. Do you have any recent blood tests?

If you do and they look very normal, it could be that you have the problems listed below.

"Thus, replacement with timed-released T3 preparations to normalize the reduced intracellular T3 levels is appropriate in such patients despite so-called “normal” levels while, on the contrary, T4-only preparations do not address the physiologic abnormalities of such patients and should be considered inappropriate replacement for obese patients or those with insulin resistance, leptin resistance, or diabetes, as they do not address the physiologic abnormalities in this group."

There are many factors that stop T3 from working. It might be good to try straight T3 for a while if you have an inflammatory condition which it seems you do.

nahypothyroidism.org/deiodi...

[Maryh1]

Dear Poonam, Have your doctor run a blood test that checks for inflammation. Eat only protein and veggies. Drink water and tea. No dairy or eggs. No gluten. Take a probioticMax Plus DF and L-glutamine first thing in the morning. I don't know if you can get it in England, but i have stopped most of my vitamins, but take PaleoCleanse Plus.

[Maryh1]

Con't

Since being on this regime I've lost 10 pounds and am feeling better. I take 2 grains of nature throid plus 5 mcg cytomel later in the day. I also have Hasimoto disease. I went to a specialist that was recommended to me and I must pay out of pocket, but my regular doctor was of no help.

Good luck

[greygoose]

The first step to getting well is to get hold of your blood test results - with ranges - and post them on here. We need to see exactly what was tested and what the results were. Otherwise, we're just groping in the dark.

[Maryh1 in reply to greygoose]

Hi GreyGoose,

I got the results from my blood tests and they were very low. The nurse practitioner I am currently seeing said it was because of inflammation. I am now living on vegtables, protein and tea, no caffine. I take there probiotic, L-gluttamine and a colon cleanse that has lots of vitamins. Eventually I will start adding things back into my diet. The nurse thinks that when i heal my inflammation, and leaky gut. everything else will fall into place. I'm making bone broth and fermenting vegtables as that is also suppose to help. I'm afraid I'm still overdoing it in the exercise department. Still riding bikes. I come home and immediately take a nap and a T3. One other thing, I now only drink filtered water that has gone through reverse osmosis. I have a little bottle of trace minerals that i add to my water.

[greygoose in reply to Maryh1]

Mary, if you have your results, why don't you post them on here, and let us have a look? How can anyone possibly advise on dosage without seeing them?

I don't think the nurse practitioner knows what she's talking about. Inflammation will not make your Frees low. Healing your gut will help some things, but I doubt that everything will just fall into place.

You do know that tea contains caffeine, don't you? And where's the fat in your diet? You need fat. No-fat diets kill people. And L-glutamine can make some people very ill - we had a case of that not long ago.

Over-doing exercise when you know your FT3 is low, is sheer madness! You are keeping your FT3 low. Where's the point in that? But, if you're taking T3 immediately after your exercise, that means that you're not just taking 5 grains of WP Thyroid. This is all very confusing.

[Poonam1]

Wow, thank you all and I'll get my results in Monday. I've had hem done via Bupa, so I hope I can get them.

Thank you all x

[Minigirl]

Hi Poonam, A girl who has hashimoto/hypothyroidism in Italy has been put on `Tirosint in

monodose liquid sachets, she said it changed her life for the better, its available in drops, &

in gel capsules from IBSA pharmaceutical. I too have hashimoto/hypothyroidism and I`m

trying to obtain some, but they don`t supply to N.Z. where I live. Hope this info can turn

your life around.

[Poonam1 in reply to Minigirl]

Thank you so much.. I hope you can get hold of some. Can this be precribed? X

[Minigirl]

Yes it can be prescribed, if you can get it in to your Country. x