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marikay
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Hi again @Louisa.
Ray suggests taking your temperature (under the arm is best) in the morning when you first wake up and then again an hour or so after breakfast. This can give you a good indication (without blood tests) how well your thyroid (or thyroid medication) is working. Your temperature should go up after breakfast. If it goes down then you are likely running high on stress hormones and that is not good.
Ray also suggests (and this is the one I follow) that you measure your pulse several times throughout the day. Heart rate should be in the mid-80's during the day (lower of course when you first wake up and before you go to bed).
With a T4 and T3 combo I can usually sustain an 80 bpm heart rate during the day. But when I tried T4 only, my heart rate never got above 68, even when I followed all the other advice on this forum and on Ray's website. In fact, I do better with no thyroid medication at all than with T4 only.
I know this can seem overwhelming at first but the T3 is an important part of the equation if you are going to take a thyroid medication.
There are several T3 only sources listed on this site that don't require a prescription. I get my t4/t3 combo from farmaciasdelnino.mx in Mexico (Novotiral) and I subsidize that with some T3 peptide. I'm pretty sure both farmaciasdelnino and the peptide companies mail to the UK and you don't need a prescription.
And I'm going to try @haidut's TyroMix when my current supply runs out.
Glad to hear the cream is working for you.
Post more when you can. Cheers
Ray suggests taking your temperature (under the arm is best) in the morning when you first wake up and then again an hour or so after breakfast. This can give you a good indication (without blood tests) how well your thyroid (or thyroid medication) is working. Your temperature should go up after breakfast. If it goes down then you are likely running high on stress hormones and that is not good.
Ray also suggests (and this is the one I follow) that you measure your pulse several times throughout the day. Heart rate should be in the mid-80's during the day (lower of course when you first wake up and before you go to bed).
With a T4 and T3 combo I can usually sustain an 80 bpm heart rate during the day. But when I tried T4 only, my heart rate never got above 68, even when I followed all the other advice on this forum and on Ray's website. In fact, I do better with no thyroid medication at all than with T4 only.
I know this can seem overwhelming at first but the T3 is an important part of the equation if you are going to take a thyroid medication.
There are several T3 only sources listed on this site that don't require a prescription. I get my t4/t3 combo from farmaciasdelnino.mx in Mexico (Novotiral) and I subsidize that with some T3 peptide. I'm pretty sure both farmaciasdelnino and the peptide companies mail to the UK and you don't need a prescription.
And I'm going to try @haidut's TyroMix when my current supply runs out.
Glad to hear the cream is working for you.
Post more when you can. Cheers