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9mths after starting T3

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Hidden thanks for your pm! I’m skiing in Bansko atm. Life is good 🤗

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Awwww you look so well, I'm so glad!!!! How's Bansko?? Keep it going girl 💪💪💪

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You have magnificent eyebrows! Had you lost them before the T3? Mine are pathetic now.

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NWA6 in reply to FancyPants54

Hey 👋 thank you 😊 My hair and eyebrows were not noticeably affected. I dye both though, my eyebrows are sooo blonde as to be not noticeable 😉 My hair was/is/became dryer, it’s quite wild and frizzy. I just work with what I was given. I’ve never plucked my eyebrows because I wasn’t girly enough but they also werent/have never been really sparse , I have become more girly 🤗 what I did notice was that my eyelashes were affected. They were always short and sparse and 2mths after T3 I noticed they were much longer and fuller.

I hope you get your eyebrows back 🤞

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FancyPants54 in reply to NWA6

Ah, I live in hope that my hair and eyebrows will return. Along with some actual visible eye lids so that I might have something to put eyeshadow on again. All lost in the puff. Long may your eyebrows continue. I'm jealous.

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NWA6 in reply to FancyPants54

I’ve never had eyelids. Never been able to wear shadow but believe it or not they’re visibly less puffy. Just saggy skin left now that 50 is creeping up on me 😂 if I get a chance though I’ll defo go for surgery

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Hey are you only on t3 and how do you take it with or with out food , how much are you taking of t3

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NWA6 in reply to tamina786

Hey tamina786. I’m on combo after 10yrs of Levo only. I’m a poor convertor so a bit of extra T3 makes the difference between a half life and a full life.

I take 20mcg T3 everyday. 10 in the morning 10 at bedtime.

I take 950mcg Levo weekly. Spilt morning and evening.

I take on waking without food. Wait at least half an hour before coffee.

Night time varies with regards to food and time since I’ve had food. It doesn’t seem to make much difference. HTH 🤗

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