ndt dose change

[ramsfs10]

so i was feeling great on 2.5 grains of nature throid. for 2-3 months labs were very top of range. when summer came i started feeling very hyper with high pulse all day long felt awful. with the advice of this forum i backed off .25 grain and immediately felt better with pulse back to normal. a week and half gone by im now feeling old hypo symptoms return! any advice? should i try and stick it out. go back up to 2.5 or even alternate days of 2.5 and 2.25?? u guys are wonderful btw. cant even talk to any doc about this stuff...

[serenfach]

It is difficult, isnt it! We think we have found our sweet spot and then it goes and changes. We dont know what our own thyroid gland is doing, it could have the odd hiccup. I think the weather and diet also play a part. Try the alternate days for a bit and see if it works for you. I have difficulty cutting the pills in half, and when I go to reach for a bit of pill, I quite often find myself reaching for the larger half - maybe my brain is making the decision for me!

Good luck with finding your sweet spot again.

[LAHs]

This is a bit out of left field but I wonder if you are eating different food during the summer and you are eating the minerals and vitamins which are improving your conversion of T4 to T3 and therefore getting too much T3 in your body during the summer. This would give rise to racing pulse and palpitations. I would try increasing your dose to 2.25grains when you are hypo and cutting back to 2.00 grains when you are hyper. That sweet spot is very precise in some of us. I mentioned that to my doc once and he said, "It is very precise in SOME people! Most people can just take 125mcg of Levo and they are just fine!" Great, that was very helpful. I think you might be one of the SOME people, like me, who have to chase that critical point around to feel well.

[ramsfs10 in reply to LAHs]

i absolutely agree! thank u