T4 dosing every other day?

[ter1461]

I have just purchased tirosint t4 50mg caps. I have many and now need to reduce t4 down to 25 a day but can’t split them as they are oil caps. So can I just take 1 50mg cap every other day and it would work the same?

[MIckeyrow]

Hi there, mine are liquid capsules. Sorry can’t help maybe try to split them and see if it works for you

[tattybogle]

Yes , you can take 50mcg every other day, and (becauseT4 has a long half life of 7 days in the blood) , it will give you the same dose as taking 25 a day . Lots of GP's prescribe alternate days dosing for Levo (T4 ) eg 50/75 . or 100/125

and lots of people don't notice any difference between their high /low dose days .

Occasionally some people can feel the difference between the days with the larger/smaller doses.... so in that case they split the Levo tablets in half to take the same each day . but as you say , it's difficult to do that with a liquid capsule .

So . yes Try 50 /0/50/ 0 etc and see how you go .