Thyroid timing

[Tanyaking]

I have a full Thyroid blood test tomorrow morning at 8 am…how should I time my doses today?

100 mg thyroxine at 8 am

2 Thyroid s at 8 am

20 mg T3 at 10 pm

1 thyroid s at 5 pm ..

Thank you

Tanya

[SeasideSusie Remembering]

Tanyaking

Today

Thyroxine - should have been at 8am this morning

Thyroid S - 1 at 8am, 1 at 4-5pm, last one between 8pm and midnight tonight.

T3 - 10mcg at 8am this morning, 5mcg between 4-5pm, 5mcg between 8pm and midnight tonight.

Tomorrow

Test at 8am

Start taking your thyroid meds immediately after your test, space as you wish.

[Tanyaking in reply to SeasideSusie]

Thank you ever so much … do you think the way you’ve staggered my doses would be better than what. I’m doing?

[SeasideSusie Remembering in reply to Tanyaking]

It's the way I would do it. I would even out the T3. Even if you take it all in one go normally, it's generally advised here to split T3 (and NDT because it contains T3) into 2 or 3 doses the day before the test.

Taking 20mcg all at once the evening before the test will give quite a spike in your hormone level. T3 peaks in the blood 2-4 hours after ingestion. By splitting it into 2 or 3 doses you are evening the amount of T3 out and will have smaller peaks from each dose.

[Tanyaking in reply to SeasideSusie]

Good Morning …..The way you’ve suggested it take my thyroid medication seams to have quite a large gap between doses from 8 am until 4-5 which will be a ((8 hours )) gap…would it not be better to move the afternoon one to lunch time ? Which seams abit of a smoother pattern?

Thank you for you’re input ..

[SeasideSusie Remembering in reply to Tanyaking]

Tanyaking

You asked how to space out your doses for a thyroid test, that's what I addressed - last dose of Levo 24 hours before test, NDT and T3 split into 2 or 3 doses and last dose 8-12 hours before test.

Are you now asking something different?

[Tanyaking in reply to SeasideSusie]

Yes ,I’ve made a new post for help with daily dosage guidance .

[thyr01d]

Hi Tanyaking, my endo told me to take no medication after my 4 pm dose and to fast, however, he will then take that into account when interpreting the results. If your GP/endo didn't guide you then you can't know what they want which is probably why what I've written is different from SeasideSusie below.