Tru Thyroid report after three months of use

[Hypopotamus]

I started Tru Thyroid five months ago. I must say straight away that I take one grain (60mg) of Tru Thyroid with one grain (60mg) of the TR Man.

In that time my TSH has gone from being fully suppressed to 32-32 on the last couple of blood tests. Clearly the Tru Thyroid does not appear to be potent enough, and I guess that when the TR Man runs out, and I go to two grains (120mg) of Tru Thyroid the situation will get worse.

Despite that, apart from the tiredness, I actually haven't felt bad. I seem to keep warmer since I started the Tru Thyroid, and my energy levels have been fine for a 70 year old with ME.

My endo wants me to supplement with some thyroxine (well, what else can he offer me?) and I will at least give it a try (well, what else can I do?)

But the bottom line is that Tru Thyroid doesn't appear to be very potent. I hope that this helps others in my position.

[MMaud]

Hypopotamus - I'm not at all familiar with Tru Thyroid. In fact, I've just had to look it up.

I was quite surprised to read most links mentioning each tablet is half of one grain, as opposed to a grain. I'm assuming you are familiar with that fact and take the relevant number of tablets.

I apologise if that insults you, but in my world it makes sense to ask the obvious questions.

[Hypopotamus in reply to MMaud]

Yes thanks, I know that the Tru thyroid tabs are only 30 mg, so I take two.

[Lora7again]

Have you thought about trying Metavive ll?

[reliablerebel]

I also would recommend metavive. Ran out of my trusty thiroyd, posted on here about my experiences with thyro"inactive" - bought a bottle of tru (the newer batch I think) but was too chicken to try it. Settled on metavive11 - became overmedicated on it (hurray, I knew it worked at least!!) and now settled on 2 metavive11 tablets a day. Was overmedicated on 3/day. Originally was on 3 thiroyd a day. Doing bloods in a week or so, possibly need to raise a small bit - if so trying to decide between buying metavive1 (cos I couldn't be faffed splitting a capsule for a half dose) - or alternatively trying a half grain of Tru that I already have. Long term metavive is more costly, but at least I know it works. Sorry for your experiences Hypopotamus - I have followed a few of your posts over the last six months. I also have a bottle of Raw Thyroid I bought in desperation before I found metavive. Good luck x

[Hypopotamus in reply to reliablerebel]

I may well have to try Metavive myself. Thank you for sharing your experiences of it.

I also did OK on Thiroid. It seems like anything that I like, or works for me, is taken off the market. And that applies in supermarkets too.

[Hillwoman]

Interesting that you've had a positive experience. My husband was taking three tablets (3 grains) of Thiroyd, plus a gradually increasing dose of Tiromel (T3). The Thiroyd ran out recently, so he started taking Metavive II. We had no idea what might be an equivalent dose to the Thiroyd, so he started with four capsules per day alongside the Tiromel.

After six weeks on the porcine Metavive II hubby is feeling worse: significant muscle weakness, deepening fatigue, plus basal temperature and pulse rate are down. He has stepped up to five capsules this week, taking the extra one at night. His sleep has improved a bit, but we're still waiting to see if the other problems improve.

I thought about buying Armour instead, but the price is even higher than Metavive.

[reliablerebel]

So disappointed for you that it is not working - would be interested to hear what your FT3 and FT4 are like?