Hi all,
I made a few posts here months ago 8 in fact about my dreadful situation in how Iam feeling along with my thyroid levels and such. healthunlocked.com/thyroidu...
I have recently seen a new endo and he is suggesting I go onto a T4 + T3 combo I currently take 35 mcg T3 and still not feeling any good really but when I was on 40mcg i feel over replaced with heart palpation sweating and so on.
My latest bloods while taking 35mcg for about a month showing:
Free T4 <3.0L pmol/L (12.0-22.0)
Free T3 15.5 H pmol/L (3.1-6.8)
TSH 0.09 L mU/L (0.27-4.20)
(T3 might be this high due to taking it few hours before test i didnt know i was getting one)
The combination he wants to try with me is Levothyoxine T4 100 mcg and T3 10mcg
So I guess my question is do you have any thoughts on this advice and so on because I used to be perfectly fine on T3 only (40 mcg one day 60mcg the next) for years until one of my DRS swapped me to a T4 only and that was when things went bad for me so put me back on the T3 but its still not been right.
(I dont have a thyroid due to Cancer)
Im also waiting for various scans to be done.
Thanks
Do you have labs from when you were on T4 only? If they've done the right tests, that would tell us how well you convert. It's important to know that, to know how well you would do on the new regime.
Personally, I think it's a bit drastic to go from T3 only, to 100 mcg T4 and only 10 mcg T3, and I can't see the necessity. Myself, I've been on 75 mcg T3 only for years, and recently decided to try adding in some T4, just to see how I felt. But, I only added in 25 mcg levo. And, so far, it seems to be a good combination. I might try going up by 25 mcg levo at some time in the future, but no way would I lower my T3 so drastically. Some doctors just love to play around with our doses, just for the sake of it, to justify their existence, I believe!
greygoose when you say you added 25 mcg of levo are you saying per day to go with the T3 you already take?
Yes.