Medication help!

[Ajva]

I have just changed over from armour NDT to tirosint and compounded t3. My t3 is in capsules so I can not split this dose twice in a day. I ended up having to take both before bed 2 hours after food. I am better taking my meds at bedtime due to side effects etc.

I feel awful today after doing a straight swap last night. Is there another way of doing this? Should I be cutting out armour and trying another med without it being a slower process?

[humanbean]

There is one solution I can think of - but it would be rather tedious to do.

There are bodybuilders and others who buy powders of various kinds and make up their own capsules.

They use a capsule filling machine. This is what I mean:

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then they fill the machine with empty gelatin or vegetarian capsules:

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Then they dump their powders all over the capsules and fill them up. Obviously with prescription medicine you couldn't do this and you would have to be a lot more more careful.

Some comments:

1) I've never done this myself, so I really don't know what I'm talking about from personal experience.

2) If you were only going to do this one capsule at a time, just buying empty capsules would possibly be sufficient. The filling machine probably wouldn't be helpful.

3) I'm assuming that 000 capsules are the smallest. I don't know if the filling machines have to match the size of the capsules.

4) The smallest capsules would probably be the most fiddly to fill. You could buy bigger ones and just put smaller amounts of powder in them, and then you'd just be swallowing capsules with more than the usual amount of air in.

5) I just realised that Youtube might have videos on this, and it does. I just searched for "make your own capsules". I haven't watched any.

Whatever you decide to do, good luck.

[Ajva in reply to humanbean]

This sounds like an idea. I wasn’t sure wether to try and split the capsule in half (twist it open) then try and wrap the other half in clean film to take later. It might just be easier to take the whole thing at once. But I would rather split in two doses if I can

[humanbean in reply to Ajva]

Well, empty capsules would be worth trying. You can buy them in varying quantities and varying sizes as well as being vegetarian or gelatin. Prices vary wildly. If you bought a bag of 100 capsules just to experiment with you might get them for under £3.

You would have to open one of your T3 capsules, pour half/third/quarter of the powder into 2, 3 or 4 empty capsules, then close your new capsules up. This is probably simpler than trying to save the original supplied capsule. The empty capsules are transparent which will help. The original capsule probably isn't see-through.

[shaws Administrator]

I take T3 only once daily with one glass of water and wait an hour before I eat.. I don't split tablets. I have no symptoms and feel well.

[Ajva]

I didn’t last long on tirosint and compounded t3. I honestly felt like I was going to die on it after 4 days. I could hardly move or get out of bed with extreme all over muscle pain and awful fatigue. I had the same reaction on generic levo.

I am back on armour and after a day already feel 70% better just having trouble with high heart rate again. The synthetics defiantly keep my heart rate lower and more under control. But I do not seem to tolerate any….