Just wanted to share with you my experience with T3 and restless leg syndrome - should anyone else experience it.
I suffer from Restless Leg Syndrome - have done all of my adult life - and it's worse when I'm tired and or in a claustrophobic environment (ie. packed cinema - sitting in the middle; long air journeys - sitting in the middle seat, etc).
I have been taking T3 for about 18 months split 50% morning and 50% at 3pm and all is well with my Thyroid but noticed that my Restless Legs were happening most evenings quite badly and I found it difficult to relax and to sleep. Unrelated, I spoke with a friend about how difficult it is to maintain the 3pm dose when work/life is incredibly busy - she said that she takes all of hers in the morning, so I tried the same - and my Restless Legs situation has massively abated and my sleep is much better and I feel fine thyroid-wise/energy levels etc.
Anyone else got those issues?
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I have low iron too Gregygoose. GP doesn't think so, but my latest results showed it was near the very bottom. How do you increase iron? My diet is good and I eat plenty of iron-rich food - but definitely need to supplement.
Is that iron or ferritin that is low? As long as results are in-range, GPs think everything has to be OK. They don't understand much about nutrition.
As to your diet, doesn't matter how good it is if you stomach acid is low - which is often is when you're hypo - and can't digest and absorb nutrients correctly. That's why we often have to supplement.
Never supplement iron without doing full iron panel test for anaemia first and retest 3-4 times a year if self supplementing. It’s possible to have low ferritin but high iron
cks.nice.org.uk/topics/anae...In all people, a serum ferritin level of less than 30 micrograms/L confirms the diagnosis of iron deficiency
Look at increasing iron rich foods in diet
Eating iron rich foods like liver or liver pate once a week plus other red meat, pumpkin seeds and dark chocolate, plus daily orange juice or other vitamin C rich drink can help improve iron absorption
This is interesting because I have noticed that many patients with Hashimoto’s disease and hypothyroidism, start to feel worse when their ferritin drops below 80 and usually there is hair loss when it drops below 50.
Thyroid disease is as much about optimising vitamins as thyroid hormones
If you read posts regularly you will see that medics seem utterly oblivious to correcting basic nutrient deficiencies
Regularly retest vitamin D, folate, ferritin and B12 and maintain all four of these by supplementing to optimal levels can significantly improve numerous symptoms for everyone, but especially anyone on replacement thyroid hormones
Ferritin is low - 37 (15.00-300.00) - February 202248 (15-300) - July 2021 - this i had been supplementing with Floradix at that time.
February 2022 --- 37 (15 - 300) Approx 8% of the way through the range
July 2021 --- 48 (15 - 300) Approx 12% of the way through the range
Ferritin is a measure of your iron stores. People also have "free" iron in their bloodstream. This is referred to in testing as just iron or serum iron.
Ferritin and serum iron don't reflect each other most of the time. So, someone with low ferritin can't say "oh my serum iron must be low too" - there is no way to know without actually testing serum iron.
Every combination of low, mid-range, or high can occur with ferritin and serum iron, and different combinations can tell you different things about your health. You might find this of interest :
The only way I have ever been able to stop my restless legs…and last nights legs and arms were so bad, that the cat got up and left me to it (I have to wait as long as I can because I take my Levo before bed) is to take 2 magnesium capsules. That stops it in its tracks and I can finally get some sleep.
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For my fellow Restless Leg Syndrome sufferers
Restless legs - due to low iron? 
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