After a long haul I actually have a private prescription for T3!!!!The endo has written down to cut levo from 100 to 50 mg and add 10 MCG of triiodothyronine. Can cut T3 into 2 if needed.
Shall I get my thyroid tests done again before I start this regime? I've upped my vitamin regime over the last month so they should be ok. Or should I start decreasing Levo first for a while before introducing T3.
Obviously I'm nervous about starting T3 so I just need a little help along the way.
Thankyou all.
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Thankyou slow dragon. I darent ask him to change prescription after the hassle of getting this one. It's for 10 MCG X 100 tablets. It's going to cost a fortune!!! I shall check out prices on the pharmacies listed here. My god if they work I will have to starve as couldn't afford to eat and take T3 😂
I would actually go back to him on email with the price difference
Get quotes on prices first from pharmacies
Most T3 is in boxes of 28 tablets anyway so 100 tablets isn’t going to work
Only Thybon Henning 20mcg is in box of 100 tablets
Explain that you took advice from Thyroid U.K. (NHS recommended Thyroid support group) and were advised that because of significant price difference majority of patients on private prescription get Thybon Henning 20mcg tablets
My private endo writes Thybon Henning Triiodothyronine on my prescription and specifies 20mcg tablets. You do need to get that changed. It's ridiculous to pay out all that extra money unnecessarily.
Reduce your Levo by 25mcg only and start on 5mcg T3 for a couple of weeks, then increase by another 5mcg. See how you feel. We have to work our doses out for ourselves. My biggest mistake was following the endo and his strange dosing strategy when I knew inside that it was wrong but just wanted him to take over.
You'll only be able to get whatever brand comes in a 10mcg tablet. May even be a capsule that you can't split. Looks like will have to be Morningside if you want a tablet to split. Wouldn't recommend a capsule at all.
I would be concerned that your endo has reduced your Levo dose too much.
There are different opinions amongst patients and doctors.
Some consider that T3 is 3 times as potent as T4.
Some consider that T3 is 4 times as potent as T4.
Some consider that T3 is 5 times as potent as T4.
I think your doctor must be one of the "5 times as potent" believers.
If I was on Levo only and was going to take 10mcg T3 per day I would reduce my Levo by 30mcg per day, because my experience of Levo and T3 is that the truth is closer to T3 being 3 times as potent as T4.
Definitely get quotes for the T3. I just paid £70+ for a box of 28 20mcg tablets. One of the private chemists quoted me £14 for the same thing.
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