LOW T3

[Mermaid238]

LOW T3 My doctor won't increase my Armour thyroid from 60 mg. He wants to add Levothyroxine ( I think that is how you spell it) He would like to take me off Armour al together - I don't want to do that. I told him I am not taking Levo I want to increase the Armour - he said no.

[SeasideSusie Remembering]

Hi Mermaid238

If you would like some helpful comments, perhaps you can post your latest test results along with their reference ranges.

Are you in the UK?

Have you had vitamins tested - Vit D, B12, Folate, Ferritin?

[shaws Administrator]

Can you source some Armour of your own as well as your prescription.

Armour has all the hormones a healthy thyroid gland would produce and as the blood tests were introduced for levothyroxine only, (T4) any blood tests cannot and will not correspond. I'd also refuse to change from Armlour onto levothyroxine.

Armour contains, T4, T3, T2, T1 and calcitonin (and made from animals' glands') Levothyroxine is T4 alone - an inactive hormone that should convert to T3. T3 is the active thyroid hormone and is required in our millions of T3 receptor cells.

Doctors, in these days, are ignorant of any NDTs and they have been used, safely since 1892 (in different forms) and many patients recover their health but they must be permitted to have small increases until symptoms are relieved.

The problem with doctors is that they cannot understand the blood test results as they were introduced along with levo alone - which is T4 only - therefore the NDTs contain T4, T3, T2, T1 and calcitonin.

The following link might be helpful and it was produced by a scientist/doctor who resigned his licence so that he could help people recover - despite the guidelines laid down that levo alone should be prescribed. He also only took one blood for the initial diagnosis alone (treated according to symptoms relieved) with gradual increases of NDT until patient felt well again.

naturalthyroidsolutions.com...