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Ever heard of Armour Thyroid doing this?
I'm on 60mg of Armour. I set my alarm clock & take it about 3:30am to avoid any interaction between my other daily meds or beast before I getbup at 5:30 am to walk my dogs. In the morningtimes I feel 100% FINE...Great energy. Walk between 2.5-4 miles.
After I finish walking, I come home, rest for a few hours (I also have MS) I get back up, piddle around the house, etc...Then, around 3-4pm, I start feeling like a wilted flower. I feel SOOOO de-energized like I'm running on fumes. Sometimes it takes ALL I have just to keep my head in the upright position or just manage to get my voice above a whisper because I JUST don't have it in me to do it.
Not knowing why this is happening, I'll eat something and sometimes it'll make me feel about 10-20% better but not much & im typically not any better till about 8-9pm and I'm only about 50% better. I've checked my blood sugar during these episodes and they're fine.
Then, for the last 4-5 days I've only taken my Armour 1 time. The days I don't take my Armour, these episodes that make me feel like a limp dish rag DOES NOT happen at all!!
Thoughts? Suggestions? Similar experiences?
Thanks!
(Btw: I don't have any new lab values to give. I haven't had them checked in 3+ months. My endonis 80 yo and JUST came back to work after having open heart surgery & imgoing Monday to have my labs drawn)
After I finish walking, I come home, rest for a few hours (I also have MS) I get back up, piddle around the house, etc...Then, around 3-4pm, I start feeling like a wilted flower. I feel SOOOO de-energized like I'm running on fumes. Sometimes it takes ALL I have just to keep my head in the upright position or just manage to get my voice above a whisper because I JUST don't have it in me to do it.
Not knowing why this is happening, I'll eat something and sometimes it'll make me feel about 10-20% better but not much & im typically not any better till about 8-9pm and I'm only about 50% better. I've checked my blood sugar during these episodes and they're fine.
Then, for the last 4-5 days I've only taken my Armour 1 time. The days I don't take my Armour, these episodes that make me feel like a limp dish rag DOES NOT happen at all!!
Thoughts? Suggestions? Similar experiences?
Thanks!
(Btw: I don't have any new lab values to give. I haven't had them checked in 3+ months. My endonis 80 yo and JUST came back to work after having open heart surgery & imgoing Monday to have my labs drawn)
I've read the half life of T3 is about 4 to 6 hours. Dr Mercola talking about taking Armour twice a day on his article "How To Monitor Your Treatment With Natural Hormone Therapy"...
"Taking the Armour thyroid twice a day overcomes traditional medicine's major objection and resistance to using natural thyroid preparations - its variability in its blood-levels. Most doctors using Armour thyroid are not aware that Armour thyroid should be used twice daily and NOT once a day. The major reason is that the T3 component has such a short half life and needs to be taken twice daily to achieve consistent blood levels."
"Taking the Armour thyroid twice a day overcomes traditional medicine's major objection and resistance to using natural thyroid preparations - its variability in its blood-levels. Most doctors using Armour thyroid are not aware that Armour thyroid should be used twice daily and NOT once a day. The major reason is that the T3 component has such a short half life and needs to be taken twice daily to achieve consistent blood levels."
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