Pointless
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Thanks for the detailed reply. I think the transition period is one of the hardest things to deal with when trying to correct your body's metabolic rate. Nothing feel's worse than undercutting your energy production by lowering stress hormones. Even worse; you overshoot by taking too much caffeine and/or thyroid and you trigger drastic changes in adrenaline (or a thyroid storm in some cases).
Higher doses seem to either create paresthesia (if the ratio is off) or lower my overall metabolism even more. Today I tried a morning dose of 1 drop T3 and 4 drops T4, and I got so tired I fell asleep for hours lol. Ray Peat actually says (I think I misremembered) that the thyroid works gradually to restore metabolic efficiency. So increasing the dose wouldn't work. Here's a quote for reference:
"Using a small does of T3 normally causes an increase of temperature and pulse rate, but in these people who are in an extremely adrenergic state, the T3 causes both the temperature and heart rate to decrease, as it restores metabolic efficiency. Then, as the stress state disappears, the thyroid supplements will gradually begin to bring the metabolic rate, temperature, and pulse up to normal. When the body temperature is maintained by thyroid-supported respiration, rather than by stress hormones, the sleep is efficient."
Ray Peat, PhD on Thyroid, Temperature, Pulse, and TSH – Functional Performance Systems (FPS)
I guess I've dealt with worse, but yeah I feel pretty bad for the time being.