Taking T3-only medication

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Prerequisites

• Iron saturation minimum 25%

• Stable temperatures indicating sufficient adrenal support

Dosing

• Four doses a day

• Five hour intervals

• First dose at waking

• Final dose at bedtime

Usual starting dose

• 5 mcgs (5 mcg tabs) or 6.25 mcgs (1/4 of 6.25 mcg tabs)

• Dosed waking and bedtime

-or-

• If replacing thyroid hormone extract, the amount of T3 in what is

currently being taken, spread among four doses

Increases

• One or two doses at a time

• Five days of stable temperatures before each increase

• Temperatures may decrease and/or wobble after each increase

Intolerance to T3

• Too high a dose for the available cortisol

• Thyroid hormone increases cortisol clearance

• Symptoms appear to be hyperthyroidism

• Insufficient cortisol can precipitate adrenaline

• Can happen with very small amounts of thyroid hormone

• Can include

• anxiety

• palpitations

• breathlessness

• dizziness

• high heart rate

• increase of fatigue

• overall hypothyroid symptoms

Hypothyroid symptoms not resolving

Thyroid resistance caused by

• deficiencies or imbalances of

• Iron

• Cortisol

• Aldosterone

• Glucose control

• Sex hormones

• elevated SHBG (sex hormone binding globulin)

• FT4 not suppressed allowing conversion to RT3