Cytomel in pregnancy
Common Questions and Answers about Cytomel in pregnancy
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Initally - going on a T3 med - Cytomel in addition to the Synthroid - you will feel great - then crash. This applies to natural thyroid combo meds too.
T3 hormone is direct - which means your body accepts it immediately. You expressed you felt aweful prior to starting Cytomel - so that says you were hypothyroid and wanted direct T3. Well, you gave the body - what it needed - but it wants more.
This is proven on your FT3 lab - the only thing is this is an old lab so one can only assume.
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 know you would recommend it. I just felt so awful and depressed yesterday that I remembered I had Cytomel in my drawer.
Last year my previous doctor prescribed 75mcg of levothyroxine and 5 mcg of Cytomel. The combination made my palpitations worse so he put me back on 30 mg of Armour saying that was my ideal dose. After this point we moved to CO. I kept both meds since then just in case a new doctor wanted to see any previous meds.
Just got new script for Synthroid combined with Cytomel and my Endo wants me to take the Synthroid and half the dose of the Cytomel in the morning and the rest of the Cytomel in the evening. My question is if there is anyone who has a similar script, do you take the evening dose before bed or before dinner?
Thanks.
I have just been to my gp, for review of my blood test, asked to be put on cytomel, he is not comfortable with that, increased my synthroid, suggest i see an endo, does anyone have any suggestions for dr.
I quit taking the chiropractors supplements, but not for that long. I have constant ringing in the ears. This is the worst symptom I have had. It all started after taking hydrocortisone for my very low cortisol levels and Cytomel. Now the endo wants me to only take the Cytomel for my Reverse T3. The rining seemed to get worse. I really don't know what to do at this point. I felt like I had so much energy on hydrocortisone and I only took that for 1 week.
The levels suggest that an increase in synthroid and a decrease in cytomel would be more physiologic. We usually use 5mcg in am and 5mcg at 2-3pm if we use cytomel. So in your case, would consider a change to 75mcg of synthroid and 5mcg 2x/day of cytomel -- this would be more physiologic for the body. If you take oral iron, it must be separated by 3-4 hours from any thyroid med to avoid absorption problems of the thyroid med.
Do you have any studies or other information about T3 and
I also split doses. I take levothyroxine and cytomel at 5am and cytomel alone around 2pm. That seems to get me through the day. Everyone is different. I have had to up the amount of cytomel at each dose, but my endocrinoligist was willing to add an additional dose once a day. If you take vitamins the hard part ot taking several doses a day is giving yourself a four hour window away from thyroid medication to take the vitamins so they will not interfere with each other.
Anyways I felt a little better after starting meds and my hair began to grow in again during January and then I crashed out in Feburary and felt horrible and completly stressed out until my meds were upped in June.My doctor also added T3 at that time which is a life saver. However I am still feeling not right. I have had a very restful summer. No Stress at all. Yet labs are still very low and my symptoms are very much with me.
Not an issue when you are single and living in Southern CA. However, I have had another child in 2003, one in 2005, and twins, in 2007. My TSH has been up and downas high as 19.65 and as low as .11. I have been given varying amounts of Cytomel and levothyroxine over the years. Since diagnosis I have never been normalized (free of symptoms) which is understandable given all the pregnancies etc. Hard to tell if fatigue and mood is due to having premie twins or thyroid.
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