Posted by Janelle on April 12, 2003, at 0:10:07
In reply to Re: Liquid fish oil !! Ah-ha ..., posted by noa on April 11, 2003, at 22:15:41
Hi,
Thanks for clarifying which of those two was T3 and T4!
HOLY COW - you were on 450 mg of effexorXR for a while. That is the highest dose I've heard of! No wonder you had all those s/e's.
Thanks for the info about liquid fish oil needing to be both refrigerated AND shaken up (yeah, of course it would settle!)
The natural thyroid supplement my pdoc has in mind for me will not be Armour, which I am familiar with and know it is made of dessicated pig thyroids.
Wait till you hear what happened to me with one of those types - it was not Armour, which is the ONLY one regulated by the FDA (I found out a bit too late) -- Almost a year ago, I went to a doctor (not pdoc, just doc who USED to be a pdoc) who specializes in thyroid problems - well, he does blood tests using very different ranges than the usual ones. Very narrow ranges, so virtually all of his patients test out high or low - I tested low (all of my previous tests, done using the regular range, had always come out normal/fine/within the range).
So he puts me on something called "Nature-throid" made from dessicated pigs like Armour. The main difference is that the Nature-Throid is hypoallergenic. A few months later when I wind up in the hospital (due in part to that supplement) they test my thyroid and I can't remember which number it was (T3, T4, T7) it was, but whatever it was read ZERO. My thyroid had stopped working! I was SUPER-HYPO thyroid.
A doctor at the hospital did some research on that natural supplement I'd been downing and found out it's NOT regulated here and therefore the amount of natural pig thyroid varies from bottle to bottle and PILL to PILL! You could be getting waaaaaay more than the 1mg or way less, and never know it. Combined with EffexorXR, that stuff made me bonkers.
They put me on Synthroid right away, and I tested fine a few weeks later. I was also put on Lithium for other obvious reasons, and even though it's a low dose they are keeping me on Synthroid cuz Lithium can cause hypothroid.
You can be sure I will ask LOTS of questions and go all over the Internet when I find out the name of the supposedly natural thyroid supplement my pdoc is considering for me.
Thanks for your info.
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