Feeling anxious on T3

[Turquoisenona]

I have switched from 75mcg Levo plus 1 grain of Armour a day to approx 112mcg of Levo plus 20 mcg of Liothyronine a day and am feeling very anxious. Is this a normal symptom when adding in more T3?

[TiggerMe Ambassador]

Sounds like you have slightly more than doubled your T3 dose by doing this? Was that the intention? 20mcg of T3 is quite a dose, did you increase slowly... 1 grain of Armour is 38mcg T4 and 9mcg T3

I'd suggest you drop back to 10mcg of T3

[Turquoisenona in reply to TiggerMe]

I thought it sounded a lot too! I see a private Dr and although I was feeling okay on the previous dose it hadn't really done much for my T3 levels and I hadn't got on taking more Armour so she switched me to this. When I just used to take Levothyroxine I was on this exact same dose to feel good but without any added T3. Do you think she has gotten the maths wrong somewhere along the line as I don't feel myself at the moment. I didn't increase slowly, no. She said that my body would be used to taking T3 from the Armour.

[TiggerMe Ambassador in reply to Turquoisenona]

Some of them really don't appreciate that T3 can be like rocket fuel for some and needs small increases to allow your body to adjust, she has doubled your dose overnight! I'd drop it to 10mcg and give that a couple of weeks and then if you feel you need to increase do it by 2.5mcg additions and give your body several weeks to settle it is easy to go too high and it just makes you feel awful

If you felt well on 9mcg from the Armour it sounds unlikely you'd need to double it?

[Turquoisenona]

That sounds like a good plan. My husband said I am really restless in my sleep as well at the moment. I guess she wants to up the T3 to get my levels up but increasing in small doses sounds a better option. I have been on this new regime for about 2 weeks now. Do you think it will be okay to half the dose of T3 from tomorrow or are there side effects by going down quickly in dose?

[TiggerMe Ambassador in reply to Turquoisenona]

Sounds like you are over doing it so halving it will be a relief for your body

It will take you back to your previous dose and then go from there

[Brightness14]

I have no thyroid and was only ever on Levo afterwards for about 6 months and I felt well.

I am now starting again for the forth time on Levo plus T3 but when I started 10mcg it was too much to soon. I was used to the T3 in NDT for over 7 years but just T3 is much different and seems more powerful to. I cut up the T3 into four pieces and take these now, what a pain.

[Turquoisenona]

Thank you for that, that's interesting. I have no thyroid too. I am cutting back from today and already feeling a bit better.