Holly,

Nice to see u again here..

What you are trying to avoid is having having too much thyroid in the 
bloodstream-- in such a way that it is you now trying to control the levels 
instead of the pituitary. I have long followed what Dr. Barnes and Dr. 
Alford were saying to start low and slow. Once you've reached a level where 
symptoms are almost gone-- you can maintain that dose. Unless the gland is 
all gone-- it's better to leave the pituitary do its control through the 
loop. I used to take T3 and I do it once in the morning only. The half life 
is something like hrs. and this fits more to our daily rhythm.

Here's what I have found in all these years..
1> Some of our symptoms are hypo and some are not.
2> Most others are related to faulty carbohydrate metabolism. Early on this 
is an evolving glucose intolerance caused by too much insulin which is 
overall caused by lifestyle and diet.
3>A lot of common symptoms between too much insulin, thyroid deficiency, AND 
thyroid overload. In the presence of insensitivity to insulin there is post 
meal rise in blood glucose and one feels sleepy and tired. Because body 
cells have become insensitive to insulin, the body tries to secrete more, 
but the cells remain starved. This pushes one to eat more. And the cycle 
goes on and on in a day. This is easily demonstrable clinically. I believe 
now they do insulin tests same time they do glucose tolerance test.
4> Sometimes it is just plain hyperinsulinemia without thyroid problems. 
Don't we hear this often? Despite thyroid medication-- still complain about 
symptoms. Oftentimes, complain about hypo and hyper symptoms!
5> This is common from age 40 but not uncommon below this age.

Friends, I have followed the above and I have helped myself out of this rut! 
If you have Dr. Barnes' book "Hypothyroidism: The Unsuspected Illness", read 
it over and over especially the part concerning carb metabolism. Dr. 
Alford's paper "Low Metabolism or Hypothyroidism" helped a lot also in 
educating myself. I control the insulin resistance with Metformin (in 
consultation and ok by my Dr. of course). Otherwise, one may still reverse 
the hyperinsulinemia by doing low-carb diet-- there are good books about 
this. If one does not control this, it could lead to frank Type II Diabetes.

Hope this helps..


Greg

P.S.

Surely miss Skipper. He's quite fast to jump on this whenever questions 
arise.





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From: "Holly Jagger" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Therefore, I don't know what to do.  How to work out my doses of Armour 
> far
> enough apart to keep my heart happy, at a time I will remember to Take 
> them.
>
> Your thoughts welcome! 

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