T3 slow-release, your experience...

[hipolion]

I'm tempted to try this T3 retard and my doctor is willing to write me a prescription for a compound pharmacy that makes such a product based in Germany. Now I use the normal t3 (thybon) but I would like to try this t3 as well. Me & my doctor are trying to figure out what dose might be useful because he doesn't have experience with that either. More doses are needed throughout the day, the doses are equivalent or a higher dose is needed to have the same effect as the one I am taking now, can be taken with levo or separately ...what do you think???

Now I take Tirosin and 5mcgT3 in the morning +5T3 in the afternoon+2,5T3 at 6pm, but there would be room for improvement.

The pharmacy also produces ndt-slow release up to 2 grain.

[Had-enough]

I’ve been taking slow release T3 for about four years now. I take my dose early morning well before breakfast and take my T4 at night just before I go to sleep. I didn’t get on with ‘normal’ T3, the hit was too strong for me, and that was a much smaller dose. But we are all different, and require different doses, so I can’t advise on what you need. I’m on 22.5 slow release T3 and used to get it from a Private GP in London, who used to bring it in from Germany, and that was the only strength he had. But that along with my T4 was enough for me and although I get my prescription from a different doctor as the London one is no longer with us, I’m still happy to keep to that

prescription.

[hipolion in reply to Had-enough]

Hi, interesting, thank you. Yes, I also find it quite strong and I can't raise the dose above 5 mcg T3 at once, although I feel like I need more. That's why i asked my endo to prescribe me the T3 sl.rsl.. I talked to the pharmacy and they can make me any dose I want, I will try several doses.

And how do you feel, you have steady energy(no up and down), no anxiety? You had to lower the levo dose when you introduced t3, you can sleep if you take it the Levo in the evening?

[Had-enough in reply to hipolion]

I actually sleep a bit better if I take my Levo before bed. I tried to increase my Levo to see if that would bring my T3 up that way, but it didn’t and I did get a lot of anxiety. So I reduced back to my original dose and took the slow release as well. I’ve been mostly fine and steady on it. But as I said, we are all different, and what suits one person may not suit another. You have to give any change in dose enough time to see if it works, don’t start chopping and changing doses, it doesn’t work that way.

[hipolion in reply to Had-enough]

I also get anxiety, out of space, and more ....if I increase the dose of levo. The pharmacy also does t4 slow-rels and ndt sl.rls., but I understand that it does not work properly.

Thank you very much, you have been a real help to me,

[hipolion in reply to Had-enough]

Hello again, can you tell me pls.how long do you feel the t3 slow-rls caps has been working since you took it ?

In 1 hrs, 2,etc? Thank you.

[shaws Administrator]

One of thyroiduk's 'experts' on the use of T3 - (now deceased through an accident) stated that T3 has to saturate all of the T3 receptor cells and the work of that one dose lasted between one to three days. I've found that to be true for myself.

He himself took 150mcg of T3 - in the middle of the night - so that nothing interfered with the uptake of T3.