Low waking temp on thyroid
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I've been on Cynomel for a few weeks and increased the dosage up to the equivalent of 4 grains. My energy levels are great, and I feel warm throughout the day. However, when I first wake up my temps are still very low until a while after I have food and coffee, usually 97.4F or below. Seems strange that this is the only symptom not improving. Anyone else had this experience?
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@herayclitus Are you taking Cynomel alone with no T4? T3 is fast releasing so it might not be able to keep you warm all throughout the night and morning. Combining cynoplus with cynomel could help in that case.
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How many micrograms of t3 is that? Thats a heroic dose… I’d think adding t4 will carry you through the night better. And you wouldn’t need as much t3 during the day
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Try keeping the thermometer under your armpit or wherever you put in for longer. Usually 10 minutes until the reading won't fluctuate and is accurate.
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T3 monotherapy should be used in very rare scenarios. I doubt you're a candidate. You folks should know this by now.
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@herayclitus you really need a selenium/iodine (not megadose) supplement
200mcg of each
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I asked Dr. Peat about this once and he said that it's okay to wake at lower temps so long as your daytime temps reach 98.6 to 99 in the afternoon. He said that it is not uncommon for people to have lower sleeping temperatures and that seems reasonable to me.
I've taken as much as 180mcg of T3 daily. Nothing wrong with it if you build up over time and just do it for a short while. It is the Wilson protocol I was following. Some people need a high dose, nothing wrong with that. I've taken 180mcg of T4 and 45mcg of T3 daily for several years, lowering it somewhat when the weather is warm, but always pretty high.
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I second Ecstatic.
My waking temps went down after some weeks on thyroid, most likely lowering adrenaline. My morning depression also went away.
My friend increasing pro metabolic eating, got lower waking temps, too.
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@Ecstatic_Hamster Do you have a quote by chance? I know Broda Barnes stated that the main thing to concentrate on was symptoms not temperature stated near the end of his book Hypothyroidism. But Peat wrote a whole newsletter on the importance of temperature.
