Posted by Ritch on October 25, 2002, at 20:35:53
In reply to Re: Should I add SYNTHROID if T3/4 are normal??? » Ritch, posted by Chloe on October 25, 2002, at 18:09:07
> Hi Mitch,
> My pdoc called in 5 mcgs of Cytomel. I am to take one per day, perferably on a empty stomach in the morning. As it turns out T3 has a half life of about 2 and a 1/2 half days, so once a day dosing seems adequete. According to the PDR, you are supposed to start out at 5 mcgs, and stay at that for two weeks. Then get a level, and adjust the dose from there...
> Even though I did not test as hypothyroid, sometimes I feel like I am. My hair has been falling out for several months. It's extremely thin and dry now. I seem to have other slowed downed symptoms too. Sometimes I am so tired I could just drop. I dragged myself around today. It's only 7 pm, but I feel like I could easily cash in for the night right now. It's either I feel drop dead tired, or I am racing and high as a kite. Finding and staying in the middle is for me right now. I hope this Cytomel helps. I took 5 mcgs this afternoon and don't feel anything so far. At least it didn't make me all sped up like I feared, Phew!
> Hope you are doing ok. Did you get off the WB and ritalin yet?
> ChloeChloe, that is interesting (once a day)? Oh well, so much for how memory serves me. My Mom is clinically hypothyroid. She has had two thyroid surgeries-I've had one-both of us have only half a thyroid now. I knew that my Mom's last thyroid tumor was cancerous and I *thought* she told me that it was all removed the last time. But, I told her I can't understand how she can get by without thyroid hormone replacement with NO thyroid. So, I told her that I think they just removed a tumor the first surgery, and then the 2nd surgery they took 1/2 the thyroid. She can't remember for sure! Anyhow, she always complains about being cold all the time, being constipated, her skin is dry, thin, and flaky. I have told her several times over the last year: HELLO, get your TSH checked and take supplements! She never gets around to it. She will take some Dilantin if she feels any kind of feeling that she used to experience before she had her seizures at night, but she won't go get her thyroid hormones checked. You see, when she had her last surgery and her TSH was too high, they put her on T4, but the dose was way too high, and she did get nervous on it and didn't like it so she just quit it. The endo she was seeing wasn't very flexible to say the least.
Oh, I've been off the WB for about three days now. Feel LOTS better. The Ritalin works OK, I sleep fine now, and the anxiety level is MUCH lower. The only possibility of replacing the Ritalin would be with nortrip., or replacing low-dose Effexor AND Ritalin with an MAOI.--Mitch
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