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Re: T4/T3 doses

Posted by froggyanna on May 31, 2003, at 17:00:55

In reply to T4/T3 doses, posted by danelor on May 30, 2003, at 13:19:22

I am going to be following this discussion closely because I am also just starting to work with balancing the T4 and T3 as well as dealing with newly diagnosed ADD. I, too, would like to know what dosages people take and what the effects are. And in general, how often your docs want to test you -- how frequently do they think you need to be tested. Thanks for starting this thread!

frogganna


> When my doc switched me down to 75 mcg of Levoxyl and 10mcg of Cytomel and I get a TSH reading of 6.5, I was a little concerned. I used to take 150mcg of Levoxyl and then one of my Docs backed it down to 125mcg because my TSH went from th 4-5 range down to 3.8
> If I follow the advice of many endoDoc's and try to get to a TSH of 1, I will probably be at or over 200mcg of Levoxyl. Is this unusual?
> I'm curious as to what other people's T4 and T3 doses are.
>
> I'm hoping I can get a Doc to get me down to 1 TSH because I have felt depressed (mainly anhedonia and low energy) since my DX. This was a huge shift in my personality from which I have never fully recovered. It seems to me, if I were treated appropriately, I would return to normal. But of course it's a little hard to get treated appropriately when you have docs that dont know what cytomel is.


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