cytomel sweating

It is likely the Cytomel that is causing low T4.

I have read that cytomel boost the anti depression medication, when I was first prescribed it I did not take it because if the simple fact of when I get off of them what will happen. So when I went back for a follow up I ask my doc about them and he said it should be fine, I plan on going to see him this week and asking him again about them.

In fact, I felt worse at times until I added cytomel. But even though I felt better the sweating was just too much, so I asked him if I could take cytomel alone considering I felt a difference on it. I guess we will have to see how I feel and add it back if I crash hard. It's not dangerous to take T3 on it's own right? Will I experience crashes if the doctor gave me a sustained release T3? How do my results look? Thanks.

it happened when I took cytomel before I switched to armour, so I thought it was specific to cytomel, but now it is back. The sweating thing is so bad that I cannot get up from chairs because there will be a wet spot due to the heat from my but on the chair. I will have sweat puring down my face, on my head, and if its humid it goes down my legs and on my butt, too! Its pretty bad! LOL But, yeah, it might be what I have to deal with I guess. I took one isocort pill and was very sensitive to it.

Not sure where this post will end up. I recently added Cytomel to my Synthroid. Previously, I was taking Synthroid 112mcg 6 x weekly. Dr. reduced to 88 mcg, 7 x and Cytomel 5 mg 2 x daily. The full 5 mg cause real anxiety and palpatations. I was told I could split the pill (challenging! lol) and so far, I am taking only 2.5 approx, once in the am. Will the anxiety settle down? I am considering taking Xanax to level out, as I am not feeling so great, with the edginess.

The doctor should know that. Cytomel is 2 1/2 times as potent as Levothyroxine. By adding Cytomel your doctor more than doubled your medication in one step. A normal combination would be 75mcg of Levo and 5mg of Cytomel, or something like that ratio-wise. Maybe 88mcg of Levo and 10mg of Cytomel, or 100mcg and 10mg. One part Cytomel and two parts Levothyroxine is not a good balance. The Cytomel is metabolized very quickly and is gone in a few hours.

025 mg and my psychiatrist added 5mcg of cytomel. The problem is that instead of being cold all the time, I am burning up, sometimes with sweating. I have internal heat that my husband claims he cannot feel on my skin most of the time. This heat is awful. Can anyone shed light on this? My doctor claims I am now in the normal thyroid range and can't understand the heat issue.

My Cytomel was slowly increased over time to 5 mcg per day. I take 1/2 pill in the morning and 1/2 at 3pm. I've been on the whole 5 mcg now for several weeks and I feel great but I'm sweating ALL THE TIME. Night sweats like crazy. I know I"m 43 but is this a side effect of too much? Everything is else great. Feel great. No more hair loss. No more muscle aches. I'm living in a perfect post TT world here and now my life is one continuous hot flash!

Here are my results for reference.. Free triiodothyronine 4.5 RANGE 3.5-6.5 Senstitve TSH 1.37 RANGE 0.35-5.00 Free T4 16 RANGE 9-23 ANTI -PO 48 HI RANGE <35 ANTI-TG <20 RANGE <40 ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY POSITIVE TITRE 1:320 HI ANA PATTERN Speckled and homogeneous pattern My doctor really wants me to up my dose of T3 (cytomel) because I am low in it. But I can't go any higher than 5mcg. I take it by splitting it in half through the day, so its 2.5mcg in the morning and then 2.

I am now on a mixture of the two, but I still feel like I have an easier time with the cytomel. A couple of times I have felt like the armour was working when I took iodine, but that sort of went away. I am only on one grain but when I try and raise I don't feel too hot. I saw my doc and he is going to check my reverse T3 level to see if I have a conversion problem. He is alwso going to switch me from cytomel to a time release T3.

Going off on people, sweating all the time, severe looping panic attacks. Cytomel hell. I have over the last five years, reduced it down to 1/4 pill a day - up until a week ago it was a half a pill a day - but today and yesterday the fatigue has really caught up with me. It's 8 am and I want to go back to bed. But I'll take that over the anxiety. I'm not sure what the next step is. The symptoms decreased incrementally with each reduction in T3.

Thanks for that, gimel...much more eloquently expressed! So, your elevated TPOab indicates that you do have Hashi's. T3 is a lot more difficult to dose than T4 is. It has a much shorter half life, is quickly neutralized if not used and therefore much more volatile. How much T3 did you take? Was it pharmaceutical T3? How long was it between when you took it and the sweating and palps?

What is considered a really good Free T3 level, my seems to run at about 227 which is in my opion low, my TSH is 1.7 and my Free T4 is 1? I am on syn.50 and cytomel 5mcg, I feel ok, all the really bad symptoms are gone, except that I tend to retain a little water but I am very constipated which I think maybe caused from the sluggish Free T3, but the problem is when Doc adjusts meds, my TSH rock bottoms?? Can not figure out a solution??

TSH 0.33 (range 0.27-4.20 uIU/mL), free T3 2.71 (range 2.57-4.43 pg/mL), and free T4 0.24 (range 0.92-1.57 ng/dL). I was ordered to immediately stop taking the Cytomel and I underwent an EKG in the office, a stress EKG, and 48 hours of Holter monitoring. All the heart tests came back normal (I wasn't told more than this). 9 weeks later and after being off the Cytomel during this time, my thryoid labs were: TSH 3.64 (range 0.27-4.20 uIU/mL), free T3 2.79 (range 2.57-4.

Then it is time to reduce your Cytomel. Instead of going from 5 to 2.5, ask about splitting the pills into quarters and taking 3.75, and in a week or so, you should know if that is enough.

Cytomel is not a drug. It is a synthetic thyroid hormone that is biologically the same as naturally produced thyroid hormone. 25 mcg is not a dangerous dose unless it is far more than needed, as was your case when it was erroneously prescribed. Due to poor conversion of T4 to T3 I have had to take 25 mcg of Cytomel, or generic equivalent, for years with no adverse effects, but instead relief from my prior hypo symptoms.

What medication if any are you on? If you are on natural dessicated thyroid such as Armour or any T3 medication like Cytomel the suppression of TSH could be from the medication. Finally what symptoms are you having and how do you feel? For how long have you had those symptoms?

The question I have is when I wake up in the morning I am cold, however after a hot shower and dressed I am hot. Sweating hot. Is all the normal? Prior to all this neck surgery and doctor stuff, I was cold all the time and stayed called all the time. I always had a low grade fever. Also any advice or suggestions for a newly diagnosed person would be great. I have read alot of the posts and I sure hope and pray that we all get better. Thank you every one for taking the time to read and respond.

My dr put me on 200 MCGs of Tirosint and Cytomel (5 MCGs) per day. I noticed that this seems to be a rather high dosage of Tirosint since it's supposed to have a better rate of absorption than the other thyroid meds on the market. I'm wondering if anyone else is taking a dosage this high? i went to have labs drawn today because while i've only been taking this dose for 5 weeks, i am either hyper now, or the symptoms are coincidence. Will others share their Tirosint dosage? Thanks!!

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