The difference between taking Synthroid & Cytomel vs. Armour Thyroid or Nature Thyroid

[blsdnsvd]

I am very curious to know what the difference is between taking a T3 and T4 Med vs a Dominately T3 med that has T4, for a person who does not convert well??? Some of you may know my history and bottom line i am struggling with being healthy again. I have many health issues steming from removing of my Thyroid. My endo isn't helping me as I pour out my heart to him, explaining my symptoms (all hypo and then some), while on Synthroid (alone). I have received many comments and advice from people on this site and I have done research (via books and online) as well in order to educate myself on my condition. I understand that Armour Thyroid is basically obselete but there are lots of people who do well on it verses just a T4 med (Synthroid). My levels (FT3) are always low in range, indicating a conversion issue, no matter what strength of Synthroid I am on. I am currently on 88mcg and my hypo symptoms are crazy although my TSH (The Swearby Hormone...lol) is in range but depending on my dosage, it ranges. My FT3 is always low in range whereas my FT4 is upper range.

Would love comments in regard to the difference and always side effects of Armour Thyroid...Thanks in advance.

[gimel]

Thanks for that fantastic description of what you subtracted by adding T3.  LOL     I just couldn't keep from wondering what branch of medicine you study to become a "dizzy doctor".  

[Brucergoldberg]

ok i was confused.  thought you were taking t3 as well.  I'm on NTH and i still feel horrible!

[LazyMoose]

Erfa from Canada. My comments above mention why.

[Brucergoldberg]

moose,

what are you taking exactly?

[blsdnsvd]

Thanks for the inspiration and that is exactly what i will do.."look here doc, this is what we're going to do". I've never even heard of some of the specialist i'm seeing now, before the thyroid removal.

[LazyMoose]

[ "extreme fatigue and many other hypo symptoms, feel like i'm not on any medication" ]

- I recall those days. On T4 med for a decade, did nothing for my symptoms. Nothing, but moved my TSH down. Whoopie. Just got worse every year. Then I started to goggle all this and went to the library, book store ect. and created a new attitude. The new attitude was "look here doc, this is what we're going to do".

Now I can look back and say T3 was all I needed. Finding the right brand after the original Armour became obsolete was a tough one, since it worked better than Cytomel in my personal case. I still say to try Cytomel first though.

By adding T3, I subtracted:

many hypo symptoms, the Gastrointestinal Dr, the Ear Dr, the Sleep Dr, the Dizzy Dr, chiropractic visits, hourly need for caffeinated beverages, more stress tests for heart palpitations, unbalanced lipid panel results.

Yea, I like T3   :- )