Posts made by Starcrossed

@basebolt Thanks! Wow 150mcg I'm only at a sip and im on my second week and this morning I experienced a stress response. Woke up with a beating heart and sweating. I already have high heart beats from estrogen and adrenaline. I can't imagine getting to 150mcg from the get go. Will staying on T3 deplete T4 too much or should that not be an issue since my liver is dysfunctional and overburdened? I am on high dose progesterone for 6 months, so its certain the T3 caused the stress response. What does my reaction to T3 tell you about my situation?

Ok I got my Tyronene and I plan to start off with one drop of 8mcg in a 500mL water bottle. I'll take only a sip for the first week just to see if it has some unwanted effects. Then move on from there. But how should I dose it? In my weak state, would taking it something like two sips a day be ideal? Or will it make hypo worse? Some have said low and slow is the best way to go. Or do I dose by how I feel? I chose T3 only cause I have liver issues and probably high RT3. I have heard on a podcast where the person said his wife was on 200mcg T3 and she was healthy. So it makes me assume that it should dose by how one feels? Thanks guys!

@Jenna Many thanks. but what is an ablation-not peaty? I started one sip of one drop of IdeaLabs Tyronene and got a headache but I'm going to gradually up the dose in weeks. I heard that too much methylation is not a good thing, Is that true? Especially some B types. I'm so glad thyroid is not scary. Thanks for the encouragement. What do you take?

I need everyone's opinion to finally heal. I wanted to start a new chapter tomorrow. I have posted about my heavy profuse menstrual bleeding for 6 years none stop every minute. I was at deaths door. Every doctor tried to kill me with their methods, especially the high dose birth controls. I eventually found an acupuncturist who was able to stop it temporarily but I didn't know she was making me more estrogenic by stopping the liver from circulating blood. It gradually got worse every time I tried the pinning sessions. I was very deficient in progesterone and it couldn't replace what I was missing. I was already damaged from SSRIs and sedative benzo withdrawals that I never recovered from in over a decade. Went to a naturopath thinking he could heal me but instead he caused this 6 year long bleed after giving me oral glutathione. Since it was oral form, it's obvious I had major gut issues mainly caused after the Benzo withdrawals. Theres a thing called Benzo belly. He focused on my Lyme disease (in hindsight symptoms were all from withdrawals not Lyme) but he never considered my gut.

I've always been cold to the core since then. During my benzo withdrawal days I had to sleep with a heater under my blanket. A literal heater and was still cold to the core. I've had adrenaline/high cortisol issues ever since. I eventually stopped acupuncture last year and this year I slowly started Progesterone powder and worked my way up to a high dose. 6000mg. I make it myself using olive oil and an overhead stirrer. I am no longer at deaths door but I'm still spotting blood. Progesterone healed some old symptoms but I need this to end or I will not recover my iron. I will remain at this dose because I know my damaged liver is not processing or absorbing all that progesterone. Which now brings me to my thyroid. I'm about to try T3 from Idealabs but a little apprehensive since I'm still spotting. My high hopes is that it will stop the bleeding and give me the T3 my body so craves. But I don't know enough about this. So this is where I need more guidance. My morning armpit temps are 96 degrees but oral readings are 98 to 99. I believe my heart rate is around 82, which seems normal but I'm afraid of T3 making it worse. Unless the heart rate is due to adrenaline and hopefully T3 can help here. You can understand my fears because I have no more blood to bleed but I've kept it minimal for the last couple of months with progesterone and I also don't need more of this fight or flight feeling. So please, if you get a chance to, inform me on what I might need to know. I was thinking of starting one drop of Idealabs T3 but only one sip a day. In case there are any emergencies. These are my thyroid panels before I started progesterone.

Thyroperoxidase Antibody HI 57 < 35 kIU/L

THYROID STIMULATING
HORMONE
1.76 0.32-4.00 mIU/L

FREE T3 4.4 2.6-5.8 pmol/L

FREE T4 15 9-19 pmol/L

Thanks for reading.

@Kvirion Yes! I read the same too about methylation from another forum and that if one was to start B vitamins, they would need to start low and slow also. But high doses are advertised everywhere.

@Kvirion
Great! I myself have also spent many months working on my nutrition and lifestyle. I'm just not there yet. But the high progesterone was a big game changer. I was sitting in bed one day and all of a sudden some of my brain injury symptoms disappeared. It may not have completely stopped my constant female bleeding yet (sorry I don't think i mentioned this initially as the reason for the high progesterone use. It's healing slowly) but somehow it is healing my brain simultaneously.

@wrl

thank you for this. I will read up on it. But a part of me feels....what if it's the boost my body might needs? Some even imply thyroid does nothing for them making it seem innocent. I suppose that depends on the under/over methylation. I was told by a naturopath I was an under methylator.

@wrl What do you think about starting low and and slow. Like 1mcg once a day?

I think I am in need of T3 but I'm afraid that if I start it, I would be on it for life! If there were adverse effects, could I just stop it and it would leave the body and go back to baseline? How is it used to lower adrenaline or cortisol. I'm on high dose progesterone at the moment for female issue but still dealing with the adrenaline, fight or flight situation. My body was damaged through medical practice. My body moves very slowly yet I always feel I'm on edge. I have no energy for anything yet it's all spent on this fight or flight feeling. Oh and I have brain fog and thyroid antibodies which I assume the high progesterone is helping. Thanks everyone.