i get up at 7.00 for work dont really have time to have tablet then wait if i put it under my tongue how long will i have to wait till i eat and does it taste horrible?
will levo dissolve under your tongue? - Thyroid UK
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Why dont you try taking your Levo last thing at night - it absorbs better in your system over night and a lot of people report higher energy levels in the morning when levo is taking this way.
Yes I have dissolved Levo under my tongue and not it doesn't taste horrible.
Moggie x
ok thanks for your reply wil try and that it last thing at night thats if i remember lol.
If you keep your levo at your bedside with a glass of water and have not eaten for about 2 hours before, you shouldn't forget. You will soon get into the routine.
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ok will do sorry
No. The molecule is too big to be absorbed sublingually. Stick to shaws good advice. Regular levo intake is essential for hypothyroidism treatment.
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This is advice from the experts:
To explore the issue further, Geri Rybacki, Executive Director of the Coalition for Better Thyroid Care and I both talked to a variety of doctors, drug companies and other experts, to get a sense of the professional perspective on the issue.
The consensus? The active ingredients in thyroid medication have molecules that are so large that it is difficult for them to pass through the mucous membranes. Most of the dissolved/crushed medication ends up swallowed, and moves through the digestive system in the usual way. Other factors also affect sublingual absorption, including oral pH, and salivary enzymes.
Thyroid expert Kenneth Woliner, MD in Boca Raton, Florida said that some medications are designed to be taken sublingually -- for example, drugs that need to be fast-acting, and when where seconds count (like nitroglycerine, used to treat angina and heart attacks) -- and have a molecular structure that lends itself to sublingual absorption. But thyroid is not one of them, according to Dr. Woliner.
thyroid.about.com/b/2011/05...
I actually find that taking my T3 under my tongue seems to work better.
Moggie x
This re taking T3 sublingually:- 2 points
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Taking a hormone 'sublingually' changes the labs quotes on 'half life'. KWIM? Like T3 has a 'half life' of about five hours...but if you take it sublingually, it prolly has a 'half life' of two hours to three hours for YOU, depending on your metabolism.
Trouble with taking sublingually WITHOUT doctor approval (and this has happend, recently) is that subling makes the T3 (the 'active part) go directly into the bloodstream (yep, you're saying 'well, no duh!') but it also makes it go to the HEART just as fast and makes it even 'more absorbable' by the HEART. I'm not a cardiologist and I certainly don't know what YOUR heart looks like/has been through, but MY honest opinion is that no one should be taking T3 sublingually until they have been optimized and talked to their doctor about taking it that way.
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We would have to figure out how much you were actually getting in the saliva itself, how much actually went down your throat to the stomach. But one thing we DO know. That taking it subling aggravates a heart condition and PVC's and heart rhythm malformations/problems.
Let's try and find out the answer. In the meantime, try taking it just orally next time you test, and testing at the five hour mark. Food HAS to slow it down...but we're getting a measurement of what's in the blood and usable/unbound...maybe you are shooting a big percentage of it all at one time into RT3. (See? I even found another option).
I took mine at bedtime and under the tongue and it worked just fine
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