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I have had hypothyroid for over 13 years now. I developed it after pregnancy. When I found out, the dr put me on synthroid. No matter what I did, my levels bounced around and I never felt good. Eventually, I found myself a really good endo. He put me on armour and I felt great. I got pregnant again in the fall of 2006. During my pregnancy, my tsh and free t4 levels stayed fine, but my total t3 went high. I delivered in July '07 and have not been able to get my t3 back down completely. I spoke with my endo and he suggested switching me to the t4/t3 combo (synthroid and cytomel) since the armour isn't giving me enough t3 anymore. I take armour once a day now. I split it up during pregnancy and it did help some but splitting while not being pregnant is throwing my tsh out of wack. I asked about just adding some cytomel to my armour and he said we could try it. Does anybody have any experience taking both armour and cytomel together? Does the synthroid/cytomel combo help? Thanks.  
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499534 tn?1328704178
The total T3 test is very outdated and you should be having the Free T3 run. That will show the actual active level of T3 in your system.
If you truly are having such conversion issues, then I would try it....it may only be temporary that you have to stay on so much T3.
By the way, the synthetic form of T4/T3 combo med is made by the same company as Armour. I do believe it is made in the same ratio amount.
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