Posted by bleauberry on December 11, 2007, at 19:16:46
In reply to Synthroid Anxiety - Will it go away?, posted by falstaff on December 11, 2007, at 15:44:25
I don't know much about thyroid. The little I do know is that many people do best on a T3+T4 combo, not just one or the other. Some people do better with Armour Thyroid. If the primary symptom is low body temp, then a compounded pharmacy version of an extended release T3 is good.
But thyroid is closely tied to adrenal gland function. If your adrenal gland is stressed or hypofunctional, increasing thyroid function will stress it further and cause all sorts of things including anxiety. Your doc would likely not know anything about it, and likely would not approve, but if you suspect sluggish adrenal glands you could try adrenal cortex extracts along with the thyroid meds. To know for sure how the adrenals are behaving, you could for about $100 do a 24 hour cortisol test, where you spit in a test tube 4 times a day and your saliva cortisol is measured at the lab to determine your levels versus normal at varying times of the day. A one time test is useless since cortisol follows a specific daily pattern, thus the need to test it 4 times in a 24 hour period. I visit mercury chelation forums and this is a popular topic there, because practically everyone with heavy metal burden has adrenal and thyroid problems, and when they treat the thyroid alone without first beefing up the adrenals they run into troubles. The two glands work in harmony. You can't affect one without affecting the other.
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