T3 Tolerance Concern

Hi! In order to try and eleviate my continual weariness, brain fog, the start of weight gain and increasing allergy symptoms, I decided to take the plunge and change to NDT to see of it was the Levothyroxine. I am prescribed 100mcg. My last test results showed upper normal range of T4 but my T3 showed barely in the normal range on the lower end so I seem to be not converting idealistically. I take all the recommended supplements as well as Bovine adrenal support. As advised, I started slowly but couldn't reach anywhere my Levo equivalent. Although, wonderfully my allergy symptoms subsided, I was still experiencing heavy brain fog with bloatiness, plus increasing headaches the higher dose I took. The main concern for me was increasing palpatations, restlessness at night, giddiness in the shower and feelings of overheating to the point of sweating on exhertion even on a small dose and not to the recommended dose for me. This was really disappointing so I reverted back to Levo with just a tiny amount of Tiromel T3 to see if it was just the NDT but still got palpatations, restlessness and bloatiness, plus the allergy symptoms are back. I am so disappointed in this as I've heard so many success stories with NDT and it seems standard Levo gives me allergy symptoms. My question really is whether someone can be intolerant to any form of T3?

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MapelMoose,

Some people need to try several makes of NDT before they find once which suits.

How much NDT were you taking?

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I got up to 1 grain. I bought the particular type due to cost and success rate.

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MapleMoose,

You may have been a little undermedicated. 1 grain is equivalent to 65mcg Levothyroxine. It doesn't matter whether the brand you tried is successful for 99 out of a hundred people if you're the person it doesn't suit. You certainly can't determine that T3 doesn't suit you from trialling one brand of NDT and one brand of T3.

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Thanks, just very concerned about the palpatations and increasing restlessness. My husband had to wake me up several nights due to my apparent panic type breathing and was concerned about me taking it for that reason. Not sure what to do, I thought those symptoms only happen if one is overdosing?

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MapleMoose,

A lot of people have palpitations when they are undermedicated.

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Thank you Clutter, I didn't know that, I thought they were associated with hyper symptoms. Maybe I should try again with it. Do people often feel worse before they hit optimum dose?

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MapleMoose,

Improvement is usually gradual but if you were undermedicated on 1 grain NDT then you would probably feel worse than you did on 100mcg Levothyroxine.

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Thanks for your thoughts!