Any jellies taking a combination of Armour thyroid and Synthroid?

Asked by JLeslie (65418

) January 17th, 2014

I just switched to trying a combination. I had suggested to my doctor taking majority of my dose Armour and a little extra T4, but she saw it the reverse, and I am taking mostly T4 and a little extra of the Armour. I’m just wondering if any jellies have any experience doing this. I already feel better, but that could easily be short lived. When I started Armour a year ago I felt great for a few weeks as I transitioned, but that feeling didn’t stick, although I oreferred the Armour to T4 alone. We theorized my negative symptoms before the change were from my T3 levels being so high on Armour alone.

I’m really glad my nurse practitioner will experiment with me. I hold hope we find the perfect combination.

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I haven’t tried it, but would like to hear how it works our for you. I’ve always been on levothyroxine. If it isn’t too personal, what kind of thyroid disease do you have? Mine is Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis. It runs in my family. My daughter, mother, 2 sisters and myself have all been diagnosed.

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@Juels I don’t have Hashimoto’s but my mom does and many of the women in my family have a slow thyroid, along with many of my friends. I switched to Armour a year ago and I really think initially the extra T3 was really good. My sister added cytomel (synthetic t3) on top of her synthroid and has been very pleased. Since my thyroid is difficult to stabilize, I figured the extra t3 would help keep my t3 in good ranges even if I was undermedicated here and there. I still believe that. I think if you still are symptomatic even though your numbers are reasonably good, adding t3 is worth a try whether you use synthetic or natural, if your t3 numbers run lowish.

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