T3 advice

[tamina786]

Can you t3 with food or without food

[greygoose]

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Have a look at this thread - especially the comment by helvella .

[McMurtagh]

I take mine morning and evening - the morning dose usually coincides with breakfast.

It’s not been a problem for me.

It may be best to take in an empty tum but that’s not always possible.

[Summer64]

There's nothing on my Mercury Pharma leaflet to say you have to take it with or without food and no instructions from the endo on that either. I take mine on an empty stomach first thing in the morning but not long before I have breakfast.

[tamina786 in reply to Summer64]

R u on t3 only meds could you guide me how you take it and how you start taking it thanks

[Summer64 in reply to tamina786]

No, I'm on 75 mcg of T4 and 10 mcg T3. I take them both at the same time. I've been on it since 2009 and was told to half the 20 mcg tablet. Now Mercury have changed that and you are supposed to dissolve the tablet and then take off half but that would waste half of a very expensive tablet so I have just carried on taking half a tablet. If I get a bit more one day and less the next it doesn't seem to make a difference to how I feel.

[tamina786 in reply to Summer64]

Sorry a personal question how much do you weigh

[Summer64 in reply to tamina786]

8 st. 7lb

[tamina786 in reply to Summer64]

How are you on it and hows your tft test

[Summer64 in reply to tamina786]

When I first got it it was like a miracle. Very quickly I felt back to my old self. I have very weak muscles still as a result of not being able to absorb Vitamin D and that had dropped to 7 and I'd obviously had that a long time so that will now not get better. In August 2016 my GP stopped my T3 and I took an immediate downhill slide and I didn't get on with the German or French ones that I was forced to buy. I got it back on the NHS but my levels are still lower than they used to be for some reason. In February last year my ft4 was 12.5 and ft3 3.7 I have been much higher than that in the past. I had my blood done last week and see endo on Friday so will see where I am now.

[tamina786 in reply to Summer64]

Good luck are you on the same dose 75 and 10

[Summer64 in reply to tamina786]

Yes, always been on that.

[tamina786 in reply to Summer64]

What brand is your levothyroxine that you are taking ,

[Summer64 in reply to tamina786]

I did best on Goldshield which has been taken over several times. It now has Mercury Pharma on the label but I think it's been taken over again. I didn't do so well on the other brands I was given especially Wockhardt but some people do better on that so it's obviously an individual thing. I have the faulty DIO2 gene so conversion comes into for it me too.

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to Summer64]

Goldshield renamed as Mercury Pharma which then became part of Amco and was bought by Concordia which has now renamed itself Advanz.

"Amdipharm Mercury (AMCo) AMCo is a rapidly growing international pharmaceutical company, committed to bringing its portfolio of niche medicines to patients in more than 100 countries. AMCo is the result of the merger in 2013 of Amdipharm and the Mercury Pharma Group."

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to Summer64]

I suggest that you, and everyone else who takes the product, contact the maker and ask!

[puffyface in reply to helvella]

Helpful

[Babette]

My endo said to have only water for an hour before and after taking it.

[thyr01d]

Hi tamina786, my endo said to leave half-an-hour either side of T3 without eating, which I presume means also no tea/coffee/chocolate drink/milk etc. I leave an hour to be on the safe side as this is often recommended and I think we metabolise at different rates. (If it's any help, I take my first dose of T3 in the early hours when possible, 4.00 am or so, that makes it much easier to fit in the rest of the doses during the day but away from food.)

[tamina786 in reply to thyr01d]

I'm getting no joy from endocrinologist how do I start t3 cause levothyroxine making me ill

[thyr01d]

I'm sorry but I'm not qualified to advise on how you start T3. I was at coma level when started on it and began with a very low dose (I think 10 mcg divided into 3 daily doses) that was increased over 3 years. If I could I'd go back to Levothyroxine but my ferritin is always low, even after years of prescribed ferrous fumarate, and with low ferritin we can't convert.

Someone else on here will probably guide you on starting T3.

I hope you soon start to recover.