Anyone recommend thyroid med they're really pleased with

[Bec7]

Hi, just interested to know if anyone here suffers with hashimotos and be interested to know what meds they take. Has anyone tried the whole spectrum ... T4 only, T3 only, T4 and T3 or porcine medications. Which was better for them and why. Thank you

[Chippysue]

Bec, nice to meet you. I have tried every type of thyroid medication on their own or combined (my story is in the blog section) and for just over a year now I have been taking purified levothyroxine.

We are all so different and for some of us we have to increase meds at a painfully slow rate. It really would be impossible to say which is best.

For example I have a friend who is absolutely fine on any type of levothyroxine, she sometimes forgets to take her tablets, she has coffee just after taking them and has no idea what her TSH is.

Then there are many of us who crash if we forget our tablets, feel worse if we switch brands of meds, some cannot tolerate T4 only meds, some cannot convert so have to take T3 only.

[Barbara]

Hi Bec, I have Hashimotos. I couldn't tolerate thyroxine (a long story..). Armour helped me but I couldn't get above one grain as I then got the same problems that I had with thyroxine. I then added T3 and that really helped. I think I had a T4 to T3 conversion problem so couldn't process the thyroxine properly.

After being on both for a few years I managed to reduce the T3 and increase the Armour until I was just on Armour. Armour was very hard to get from last year so I changed to Nature-throid, then that was hard to get because everyone was using that instead of Armour so I changed to 'Thyroid', made by Erfa.

I did really well on T3 products, they gave me my life back. I got them originally from a private doctor on a list that I got from Thyroid UK. They helped me so much that my GP agreed to prescribe them for me after a year and I've been getting them on NHS prescription for 7 years now.

[Luvvy64]

Hi Bec,

I started on levothyroxine and quite quicly realised that i had to make sure

that i stuck to the same brand or my raging hypo symptoms returned with a vengance so i stick to Eltroxine.

I still had remaining symptoms so added in Armour thyroid but had to change that to Erfa Thryoid because they changed the filler in Armour last year and this led to many of us having problems with absorption and so our hypo symtoms returned again...oh joy!

After some time on the combination of Eltroxin and Erfa i still had symptoms and so finally my private consultant added Prednisolone as my Adrenal Stress Saliva Test came back showing that i had adrenal fatigue (something which is totally overlooked in mainstream medicine it would seem).

So i agree with Suze that the "one size fits all approach" just doesn't have a place in 21st century medicine and in fact at the recent American Thyroid Association Meeting held last month they stated that fact and said that "personalised medicine" was the way forward...hear hear!