Armour help, please

[Annaoj]

I’ve been trialing Armour thyroid for 4 weeks (1/2 grain twice daily) - having changed from 125mg Levothyroxine / 5mg Liothyronine.

These are my latest results.

TSH 5.25 (0.35 - 4.94)

T3 3.4 (2.4 - 6)

T4 - 8 (9 - 19.1)

My results in April were:

TSH 0.19 (0.35 - 4.94)

T3 4.2 (2.4 - 6)

T4 12.4 (9- 19.1)

Is this to be expected when changing to Armour or am I simply not taking enough?

[Jaydee1507 Administrator]

1 grain is quite a low dose so indeed you just need to take more.

Are you supplementing your vitamin levels and whith what?

What are your latest results for ferritin, folate, B12 & D3?

[Annaoj in reply to Jaydee1507]

Hiya, thanks. Any idea how much more?

Vitamins are all optimal after lots of supplementation.

[Jaydee1507 Administrator in reply to Annaoj]

I can only relate my own experience of being told to get onto 2 grains before testing. As with anything containing T3 you need to do that slowly, a quarter grain every 2 weeks.

Are you splitting your dose? This is important as T3 is an active hormone.

When testing be sure to split your dose into roughly 3 portions taking the last amount 8-12hrs before the blood test is due.

[Annaoj]

Okay, thank you 🙂

[Ajva]

it takes a while to find the right dose. You are on no where near enough. I am on armour but I also added in tirosint (levo).

I think you would benefit an increase. Has your Dr suggested it?

[Starseed56]

hello definitely your dose is too low. The same happened to me last year when I switched to Erfa (NDT like armour) it took a long while to build the dose up to my current two grains, from half a grain, as others have said needs to be done slowly but it was far too slow for me (6 months to get to right dose) and I felt really rough at the switch. Clearly your results indicate a higher dose is needed.

Hang in there and you’ll be fine once the right dose is achieved. 💜

[Brightness14]

Your not taking enough. One grain is only about half of what you require.

[Brightness14]

I forgot to add that when I first taking NDT I was told to raise every two weeks but I found that every 10 days was fine.

[YoginiDancer]

Ypu need to aim for a ratio of 1:3 if FT3:FT4 which means, though both are too low, the T4 is proportionally worse. So would you consider adding in some Levo to get the ratio in balance maybe?