Thyroxine

[Soundwell1]

I've tried upping my dose of Armour to 90 and I get a sore top sides of throat every day, tight chest and breathing difficulty and swelling of ankles so I will go back to levo thyroxine tomorrow. My question is, should i start with 100mcg or less?? I used to take 75 and 100 on alternate days. I'd be grateful for advice.

I'm not due to see endo. till May.

[Tigerzzz]

When Forest Pharm sold Armour, that was the end of a good product. Now, look for NP thyroid, WP thyroid, Naturethroid. Adjust the dose by body temp. Order book 'Solved, the Riddle of Illness'.

[victorious21]

How long have you been on the armour thyroid

[jamesal0]

Stick with Armour - go back to 60mg, spilt the dose into 2 parts or 3 parts (breaky, lunch and dinner - yes take with food. Then slowly increase (15mg) using your symptoms as a guide.

[LAHs]

I agree with jamesal0, Why would you stop Armour just because you passed through your critical point? Reduce your dose just a little bit. Go back to the dose where you were OK then add half of the dose that caused your problem. It is a very tricky fiddle to get to the right dose. I am on Armour and I too tried to up it by a little tiny bit, 1/4 pill and I had big problems with heart rate and blood pressure so I dropped back to the dose which worked. I split a half pill into 4 now and again but that was too much trouble so I just stick with the 1.5 grains which works perfectly OK. I fall asleep at about 9:00pm but that's not a big deal.

[Soundwell1 in reply to LAHs]

At 9 how lovely. Thanks for your reply. I can't seem to find what other conditions if any that you have.

[pennyannie]

Hello Soundwell

I don't think you can simply swop from NDT back to T4 alone without looking forward to disabling symptoms.

Why don't you drop back down a little, as suggested by others ?

It is a bit fiddly cutting bits into even smaller bits, but it's got to be a better support system for you than just T4 only ?

I'm with Graves post RAI thyroid ablation and seem to be ok on 1 + 1/2 grain/tablets - sometimes my half is more like a 1/3rd or 2/3rds but if it's 3/4 - I certainly know about it and feel uncomfortable within my body and get anxious.