Hi I too am on NT just wondering if you are splitting your dose. I take only 3- 1/4 grain pills in the morning and 4- 1/4 grains in the afternoon. Sometimes in the morning when I drink tea I notice I get a bit hyper but I think that's from the tea, most times I'm really good. I'm now taking 1- 1/4 grain before bed because my t4 is real low, and it didn't effect my sleep. At first I was to take 4 in the morning which was at that time too much, so you kind of have to see what feels right. I had a horrible time with levothyroxine t4 meds. very happy with NT also if you do go back on NT make sure you don't take it before you have labs drawn otherwise you'll get a very high FT3 good health deb
Thank you for your answer!
I am already taking ViT D And. B12 . Ferritine is relatively low but i cannot supplement because of Hepatite C. I am surprised that not everybody taking NDT or T3 experience nervousness and agressivity because this is what I do. I will check my adrenal function with blood lab but i am rather sure that they are weak (when i was 25 i sometime came back from work vomiting and feeling strong nausea, the doc would shot me some adrenal extract and i was feeling well immediately...since that period that disrupted my balance , stress never left me... before the Graves i staid 2 years in a buddist monastery and i have never been so healthy like in those 2 years...when i got back to the stressfull job , after 2 years i got Graves....what i mean is that stress is a big issue for my body and when i take T3 i become so easily stressed....sorry for repeating the same word so many times but stress and adrenal are so connected...thank you for the information about ferritin....once i took iron supplement for some days out of ignorance about the liver risk and i was feeling so well...i love iron ...but when i told it to the doc he got angry and he stopped me immediately :-(
Before concluding that there is an adrenal issue, I wondered if you have been tested for Vitamin D, B12 and ferritin. Hypo patients are frequently too low in the ranges for those, which can cause symptoms that mimic hypothyroidism. Also, Vitamin D and ferritin are important for metabolizing thyroid hormone.
I don't know why there would be a reaction to T3 itself, since the body converts T4 to T3 on a continuous basis. I have read that hypo patients that are too low in ferritin sometimes have unwanted reactions to increases in T3 med.