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Mauritio

@heyman cold hands and feet is usually a sign of high adrenaline , so I doubt it is lowering your adrenaline . But who knows ?
It does indeed sound like you're getting more hypo. But keep an eye on other symptoms like water retention, weight gain and mood.

It could also be that you take too high of a dose.
When I started tyronene I experienced hypo symptoms, that only disappeared when I drastically lowered the dose. So maybe that's what's happening to you.

Figuring out thyroid dosing can be difficult.

heyman

@Luke How much are you taking? Maybe deus is shit, idk. They are from india I think.

Edit: all their pills look the same too, a bit weird. Bought some other pharma from them.

heyman

@Luke I split it up into 5 pieces so I get like 5mcg. I was thinking it was lowering adrenaline thus cold hands and feet.

Luke

@heyman said in Help with EU Sources:

@Luke How much are you taking? Maybe deus is shit, idk. They are from india I think.

Edit: all their pills look the same too, a bit weird. Bought some other pharma from them.

When I was taking it I started with about 3 mcg (1/8 of a tablet) and increased the dose to about 6 mcg (3 mcg with breakfast, 3 mcg with lunch) after two weeks. I never took more before I stopped. So not a huge dose. As you will have noticed the tablets are pretty much impossible to split into equal pieces, so maybe I sometimes took 1 mcg more or less.

heyman

@Luke I use a nailclipper to cut them.

Kvirion

@Luke Have you tried T4 therapy only?
It sounds paradoxical, but sometimes some people have good conversion to T3 (fine deiodinase), but they don't produce enough T4 as substrate. Taking T3 only disrupts feedback loops, derails deiodinases, and exacerbates the issue...

BTW, on T3 I had symptoms similar to those of @heyman
Some bunch of people on Reddit also experienced the same.

I'm one of those who can only tolerate less than 0.5 mcg of T3 at once, and do better on T4 alone... with some sporadic extra microdosing* of T3... if needed.

My working theory: I guess that because I started with a pure dietary RP approach only, I probably over-optimized my T4->T3 conversion already, before I even started supplementing thyroid, to raise my temps above 36.5

[*] I dissolve my T3 medication in olive oil, to microdose it...

BTW, there is also some kind of an alternative explanation by Peatbot...

Peatbot: When you start on thyroid treatment, it's common to experience an initial slowdown in your temperature and pulse rate. This happens because the stress hormones, like adrenaline and cortisol, which were previously compensating for low thyroid function, begin to decrease. As these stress hormones lower, the underlying hypothyroid condition becomes more apparent, leading to a temporary drop in temperature and pulse rate. This is why it's important to monitor your temperature and pulse rate over a period of two to three weeks. With the right dose of thyroid, you should eventually see a steady rise in both temperature and pulse rate as your thyroid function improves and stabilizes.

heyman

@heyman I take tyromax (ndt) in the evening which has t4 in it.

I feel a bit better now after some time taking t3 during the day but still not quite right.

"This happens because the stress hormones, like adrenaline and cortisol, which were previously compensating for low thyroid function, begin to decrease"

Maybe that is true, I feel more calm. Everything is a bit slower. Slow motion.