Do you stop supplementing thyroid in the summer?

[Peatness]

It's been hot here and I've been over heating so I stopped taking thyroid today. It it safe to do this? Do you lower or stop thyroid in the summer?
Also, do you increase your salt intake in the summer?

 

[Rafe]

I end up doing both of those. I also overheat in hot Texas summer. A couple of days ago my temp was 99.7. I’m not convinced that’s metabolism or all metabolism. I just don’t see how or I’d expect to be very thin instead of looking kind of mixedemic. I suspect it’s serotonin.

In these 100+ degree days I normally, with nothing, can’t sleep & end up taking cold showers & baths.

This summer I’ve done better by taking small doses of cyproheptadine to sleep, acetazolamide (every other day about 25mg) to concentrate minerals, & salt + potassium gluconate as an electrolyte drink every couple of days.

I eat less, eat more fruit, siesta most days, stay out of the heat in 100+ days.

I’m just too hot with t3 in persistently hot weather.

 

[Rafe]

But, I also don’t take much t3 anymore at all b/c my temps are always in the 99s in the middle of the day. Just one tiny dose in the morning with food.

 

[Blossom]

Yes I do. I’ve been stopping it every summer and have never had a problem.

 

[livesimply]

I live in the mid-Atlantic area. I lower my dose, but do not stop it. Tried once with horrible outcome. As the weather cools I will slowly increase again.

 

[Vileplume]

It should be fine, as long as it's not a huge instant drop in the amount you're taking. You could go down 1/2 grain or so at a time, waiting two weeks between and taking basal temperature every day. I think the most important thing is making sure the waking temp doesn't fall below 97.8 when you stop taking it.

A few weeks ago I dropped down half a grain and my waking temp didn't change at all.

 

[Peatness]

Thanks for all your replies. Stopping it gave me strange heart beat so I resumed but lowered the dose. My waking temperature did drop to 36.2 rather than 36.5/6.

 

[AspiringSage]

T4, T3 or both? What’s your dose?

 

[Beastmode]

Definitely lower in my case as the temps warm up here in the South. However, I don't go off temp alone and always consider other factors (i.e- sleep quality, mood, focus, energy, etc.) Some days in the summer, I might have just as much as in the winter months.

It's a factor, but not the only one, so it always "depends."

I take T3 during the day and a bit of T3/T4 at night most days.

 

[Lollipop2]

I don’t reduce or stop @Peatness mainly because of working. Most work carries some stress; even though I love my work, it definitely has stress. Tyromax makes such a difference at work. How I discovered was I forgot to put it in my lunchbox one day. I bring my lunch everyday. One day I forgot my Tyromax so didn’t have my lunch dose - boy oh boy by about 3:00pm I was dragging myself through the day. Otherwise, my energy stays mostly steady and if it drops nothing a small organic natural (no additives) candy cane doesn’t fix . Needless to say, I haven’t forgotten my Tyromax since that day - lol.

 

[Peatness]

I don’t reduce or stop @Peatness mainly because of working. Most work carries some stress; even though I love my work, it definitely has stress. Tyromax makes such a difference at work. How I discovered was I forgot to put it in my lunchbox one day. I bring my lunch everyday. One day I forgot my Tyromax so didn’t have my lunch dose - boy oh boy by about 3:00pm I was dragging myself through the day. Otherwise, my energy stays mostly steady and if it drops nothing a small organic natural (no additives) candy cane doesn’t fix . Needless to say, I haven’t forgotten my Tyromax since that day - lol.

Thanks. I tend to alternate tyromax and tyromix. I do this because there are days I need to avoid vitamin E. Do you increase your salt intake during the summer months?

 

[Peatness]

T4, T3 or both? What’s your dose?

Tyromax (7 drops) or Tyromix (2 x 3 drops). I get the feeling I am not dosing this correctly.

Definitely lower in my case as the temps warm up here in the South. However, I don't go off temp alone and always consider other factors (i.e- sleep quality, mood, focus, energy, etc.) Some days in the summer, I might have just as much as in the winter months.

It's a factor, but not the only one, so it always "depends."

I take T3 during the day and a bit of T3/T4 at night most days.

Thank you

 

[Lollipop2]

Thanks. I tend to alternate tyromax and tyromix. I do this because there are days I need to avoid vitamin E. Do you increase your salt intake during the summer months?

Maybe? LoL. I am not sure. I salt to taste and maybe I add more when cooking and my body needs it. My food mostly comes out perfectly salted so a natural flow seems to be working.

 

[Peatness]

Maybe? LoL. I am not sure. I salt to taste and maybe I add more when cooking and my body needs it. My food mostly comes out perfectly salted so a natural flow seems to be working.

Thanks. Salt is one thing that I can't rely on taste for. I tend not to crave it. I could easily do without it. Yet I need it.