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Hello all, I have been taking T4/T3 (2:1 ratio) for seven days now, slowly titrating up. I began with 3 mcg T3 and 6 mcg T4 once daily and now am up to triple both doses on day 7 (too fast?), split into three doses throughout my day. I have upped my calories and I am including as many nutrients as possible... especially electrolytes which I had an issue with the first few days.
Initially, felt some moderate improvements in mood and energy and a temporary relief from my cold hands. Also, life felt more real if that makes sense. More grounded and became much more social like I used to be a long time ago. Strong increase in my libido too. Eventually, this went away so I introduced more nutrients through liver, etc. and now I can get it 'to work' pretty well for half of my day every day. Morning temperature definitely warmer and I wake up feeling very rested now. As my day goes on though, everything starts to fall back into how it was before. There's definitely some sort of missing nutrient that I'm not hitting because my metabolism ramps up and down at the most seemingly random times. I do also take some supplements, VitD, VitE (tocovit) K2, magnesium, thiamine, riboflavin (r-5-p), niacinamide, occasional taurine but I don't megadose anything really. I may be not getting enough protein this past week so I will try that next. I weigh 195 lbs, 6' 0 and I'm a male. I'm hitting over 3000 calories daily as of now. Prior to starting thyroid my TSH was 0.70-1.0 but FT4 was slightly under the middle and I've never tested FT3 but I know hypothyroidism runs in my family, probably a conversion issue involved too. Symptoms progressively got worse over the years.
Anyways, I have a few questions from what I've noticed so far:
1. Increase in shedding, like by a good amount. I slowly thinned out over the years and peating stopped the shedding completely for many months prior to this. Is this normal during the transition? I am now at 9 mcg T3 and 18 mcg T4 a day on Day 7. I'm not pulling clumps or anything but running my hand through sheds hairs almost every time. Strangely I'm shedding zero thick hairs, only the small weak hairs. Normally when I was progressing through MPB I shed hair regardless of thickness. This time it seems like only the 'weak' hairs are shedding.
2. What nutrient would you recommend I look at next because I'm clearly missing something. My carb intake has to be adequate, I can't imagine needing more than what I'm already consuming?
3. Is all of this normal even with adequate caloric/nutrient intake in the beginning?
4. When ones metabolism rises, and temperature rises, obviously you would feel warmer. But a couple of these days my morning temperature actually went over 97 for the first time, but I felt really hot. What I'm trying to say is, is it expected for small increments in temperature to feel a lot warmer than you'd expect? I'm assuming because I haven't been in this state in so long that small rises in temperature feel much warmer than expected? weird question haha, i know
5. Suddenly have dandruff, any suggestions?
6. Any other advice and tips appreciated
Thank you all.
Initially, felt some moderate improvements in mood and energy and a temporary relief from my cold hands. Also, life felt more real if that makes sense. More grounded and became much more social like I used to be a long time ago. Strong increase in my libido too. Eventually, this went away so I introduced more nutrients through liver, etc. and now I can get it 'to work' pretty well for half of my day every day. Morning temperature definitely warmer and I wake up feeling very rested now. As my day goes on though, everything starts to fall back into how it was before. There's definitely some sort of missing nutrient that I'm not hitting because my metabolism ramps up and down at the most seemingly random times. I do also take some supplements, VitD, VitE (tocovit) K2, magnesium, thiamine, riboflavin (r-5-p), niacinamide, occasional taurine but I don't megadose anything really. I may be not getting enough protein this past week so I will try that next. I weigh 195 lbs, 6' 0 and I'm a male. I'm hitting over 3000 calories daily as of now. Prior to starting thyroid my TSH was 0.70-1.0 but FT4 was slightly under the middle and I've never tested FT3 but I know hypothyroidism runs in my family, probably a conversion issue involved too. Symptoms progressively got worse over the years.
Anyways, I have a few questions from what I've noticed so far:
1. Increase in shedding, like by a good amount. I slowly thinned out over the years and peating stopped the shedding completely for many months prior to this. Is this normal during the transition? I am now at 9 mcg T3 and 18 mcg T4 a day on Day 7. I'm not pulling clumps or anything but running my hand through sheds hairs almost every time. Strangely I'm shedding zero thick hairs, only the small weak hairs. Normally when I was progressing through MPB I shed hair regardless of thickness. This time it seems like only the 'weak' hairs are shedding.
2. What nutrient would you recommend I look at next because I'm clearly missing something. My carb intake has to be adequate, I can't imagine needing more than what I'm already consuming?
3. Is all of this normal even with adequate caloric/nutrient intake in the beginning?
4. When ones metabolism rises, and temperature rises, obviously you would feel warmer. But a couple of these days my morning temperature actually went over 97 for the first time, but I felt really hot. What I'm trying to say is, is it expected for small increments in temperature to feel a lot warmer than you'd expect? I'm assuming because I haven't been in this state in so long that small rises in temperature feel much warmer than expected? weird question haha, i know
5. Suddenly have dandruff, any suggestions?
6. Any other advice and tips appreciated
Thank you all.