Posted by Beliala on June 2, 2002, at 16:58:17
In reply to Re: estrogen » Beliala, posted by Cece on June 1, 2002, at 21:29:41
Thanks for sharing your experience. I’m curious as to why T4 helped you while T3 didn’t – any ideas? I thought T4 was the “inactive” form and only worked by increasing T3 levels.
I don’t think thyroid would be a good idea for me right now, given my insomnia. I guess it’s something to think about should I ever get the insomnia straightened out. So many medications to try (and fail). After 25+ you’d think I’d exhausted everything but I see from this board there are still other options out there....although as you can see, I’m pretty pessimistic at this point.
Beliala
> T3 augmentation did nothing for me; T4 augmentation is doing wonders for my mood, energy, alertness, and ability to get up in the morning.
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> I always tested low normal or borderline low. The T3 was prescribed for AD augmentation, not thyroid problems, and it did not change my thyroid test results. When I started on T4 I was still on T3 and got bad side effects(feeling hot, heart racing, agitation). When I dropped the T3, I was able to raise my dose of T4 with no problems. We are raising my dose to move me from the low to the high end of normal.
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> Thyroid supplement therapy is used by some doctors (Peter Whybrow at UCLA is a leader in this) for many psych disorders, especially depression and BPII. As someone else said here, thyroid disorders, even those that don't easily show up in testing, can mimic- my pdocs words: "any and all psych synmptoms in the book".
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> Of course, not a panacea for all (nothing is), but worth looking into.
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> Cece
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