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@risingfire what should the pulse be when waking? I took this am my temp before getting out of the bed and it was 98, I believe my pulse before raising is low 60's, same when sleeping

@Jennifer thanks

I heard Ray mentioning that. I feel I really need to figure out my thyroid optimization as a must and still straggling a bit with with dosing and timing. I often get a bit confused about symptoms/side effects.

@risingfire thanks for looking at it.

I do check temps and pulse, but I think I still need to figure out my Thyroid optimization yet, and straggling a bit with it.

I use the last generation Braun Ear thermometer now, and temp seems to be good most of the time, about 98.6 during the day.

HR though is often low 70's during the day when at rest like seating at the desk, or there is no stress, sometime even about 68.

I take half grain Armor before breakfast, another half before lunch, then I have been experimenting with an additional 1/4 either in the afternoon or before bed. Really trying to understand how to properly time and split during the day my Armour dose. I believe taking it before bed disturb my sleep

thank you guys for giving me some input here. I will research a bit deeper what you have suggested and try something instead of the Neomycin

@Jennifer thank you for the info, as always.

how long did it take you to clear out SIBO with Thyroid? I assume it worked because your bowel movements became more frequent?

I have used NDT for a while, but never really understood fully thyroid until I got to Ray work. Hopefully optimizing thyroid will help my SIBO as well

@LucH thanks!

@risingfire

consider I modified this a little, but my Calories and macro goals are the same.

I substitute the banana with 2 corn tortillas for breakfast.

I moved some protein from lunch to dinner, so I get about 50gr protein each meal. I also added about 20gr carbs at lunch, plus I snack fruit or dates before going to bed maybe after dinner too.

On top of this Ca amount, I add 500mg at dinner from bonemeal.

I was just prescribed Neomycin and Xifaxan for SIBO, but I'm getting quiet concerned about the side effects of the Neomycin.

I'm not sure it is placebo but after 3 days on it, I believe I'm already experiencing some buzzing sound in my hear and not sure I should keep this up for another 10 days.

what would be a safe alternative to Neomycin?

thanks

@risingfire

I eat pretty much the same. I already saved a usual day of eating plus a day of eating with liver, did not do that with the Oysters.

How do I send it?

@risingfire

I do everything, thanks for checking on this. Since Peating I have increased my Ca to about 1500mg tot, some from cheese and the rest from Oranges and Bone Meal supplement

@Jennifer said in did taking Armour the Peat way at night worked for you?:

have you tried taking the 1/4 grain earlier in the day with your breakfast or lunch dose or perhaps you need extra calories, particularly carbs, when taking an extra 1/4 grain?

I didn't. I was thinking to try to take it at 3/4pm maybe, since I tend to get sleepy around that time, or maybe just taking the full grain in the am, then the 1/4 around 3/4pm.

Perhaps I will try it again before bed with extra carbs

I'm usually drink the Trader Joes OJ either the fresh squeezed when available of pasteurized, I like them both. Something I buy the whole foods pasteurized, non from concentrated.

is there any other "safe" OJ to drink at less cost? is concentrated as good and safe as non concentrated?

@Jennifer said in did taking Armour the Peat way at night worked for you?:

I’m not sure if Ray recommended that approach to someone specifically, but he said that the body normally makes about 4 mcg of T3 per hour so if you take 5 mcg or 10 mcg with food, it won’t cause stress by going far beyond the normal physiological concentration. Since half a grain of thyroid contains 4.5 mcg of T3, having it with food aligns with his dosing recommendation.

we chatted about dosing Armour few weeks ago. I was on a similar dosing protocol as yours, half grain before breakfast and lunch. I tried then to add a 1/4 before dinner.

Initially I thought it was not causing any sleep disturbances and felt good, but after a couple of weeks I thought it did. I stopped it and I believe I was falling a sleep better.

I tried again with the extra 1/4 this time at bed time, but I seem to have the feeling of not sleeping while I'm sleeping, and waking up over and over.

Do you have any recommendation for this issue? how would you try to time my Armour? I'm listening everyday a podcast with Ray on the Thyroid to draw some info dosing with the Armour, so far a host mentioned to be taken twice daily since the half life of about 8hrs

@Jennifer said in did taking Armour the Peat way at night worked for you?:

Anyhow, fingers crossed the combination of Xifaxan and Neomycin does the trick.

thank you.

@risingfire

No idea, perhaps @Jennifer knows more about it.

@Jennifer

I’m glad you have resolved your gut issues. It seems to be a bit complicated resolving gut issues.

I just had a visit with my gastro today. We want to try another course of Xifaxan along with Neomycin this time, funny we just talked about this yesterday. He mentioned some potential side effects from Neomycin to watch for.

He did mentioned the SIBO test being very expensive and not covered by insurance, so at the moment it is not an option for me.

He is not comfortable to do more than 2 weeks course at time. I will have a follow up in 4 weeks see how things are, perhaps trying another course later.

@Jennifer

thanks for the info.

My Xifaxan course was for 2 weeks only. How would you know if I have SIBO or IBS? can you actually have both?

Hi Guys.

I'm wondering if you include protein from plant on the total daily count, or leave them out as they have very low biological value.

I'm aiming for about 150gr of tot daily protein, and it looks like I'm getting 135 from animal food only, then about another 20gr from plant protein.

@Jennifer said in did taking Armour the Peat way at night worked for you?:

Do you have any digestive issues when not consuming milk?

I do. It has been for about 4 years that I'm dealing with something.

I went to a gastroenterologist and we thought a possible SIBO as my symptoms were sometime diarrhea after eating, plus constipation and bloating. We tried a course of Xifaxan but did not resolve the issue. Gasto then said it could be IBS, and suggested a probiotic.

I started the MegaSpore since it is Peat friendly, and It did helped immediately with the diarrhea symptom. At some point I even saw my stool forming normally but it did not resolve the issue. I'm not really sure if it is doing anything right now.

I still often complaining about not "empty" out well and constipation, and my stool not forming that often either.
I have been trying the carrot salad and mushroom for a while, with the latter more effective to get rid of constipation.

@Jennifer said in did taking Armour the Peat way at night worked for you?:

Without knowing the test subjects’ thyroid functions in the study you linked or how accurate blood values as a measurement are compared to isotopes in the study Ray referenced, and not having the study, since he mentions it in email exchanges with other forum members, I can’t answer you with confidence, but the results aren’t that far off from each other, anyway. Just for reference, here are the email exchanges:

“[TAKING THYROID WILL HAVE LONG-TERM EFFECTS] Experimenters using isotopes gave large doses of thyroid until the subjects' glands were completely shut off, and when they stopped giving the doses, everyone's gland returned to normal activity in just 2 or 3 days. The gland is extremely quick to adjust its activity, both up and down, except when it's inhibited by stress, or PUFA, or estrogen, etc.

[HOW TO STOP THYROID] If a person's thyroid gland has been inhibited by very high doses of a supplement, it takes only 2 or 3 days for the gland to resume full activity, and because it takes time for the hormone to be excreted, suddenly stopping a supplement shouldn't be noticeable, when the gland isn't being inhibited or malfunctioning.”

— https://expulsia.com/health/emailexchanges#Long_Term_Effects

thanks for your thoughts. I heard Ray mentioning this before