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hi everyone!
got switched to PTU two weeks ago, but i was feeling Hypo. got labs and turns out my FT3 is in normal range now!! FT4 and total T3 are below normal.
TSH is still really low but MD says it takes time for TSH to recover.
As soon as I switched to PTU i started on 500 mg of acetyl l-carnitine.
MD reduced my dosage of PTU to 100 mg ...wondering how much actely l-carintine i should take now? 250 mg?
also need to take a vitamin D supplement...does anyone know how much i should take? my lab value is borderline normal low
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linda187 p12445
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Here are my most current labs:
TF3: 2.80 pg/ml
T3: 82 ng/dl
T4: .67 ng/dl
TSH: <.001
PTU reduced to 100 mg per day, titrating atenlol down to 12.5 mg per day for a week then discontinuing.
I def became hypo as in very very fatigued/couldnt wake up/foggy, and very very cold. and i only took 500 mg for 2 weeks...
when will my TSH start to come up?
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ok thanks for the vitamin D dose!
Sweetlove p12445
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Can you plz tell me how do you take acetyl l carnitine. Do you take both the PTU and acetyl l carnitine together at the same time. Or there is any gap between them.
I also started 2 weeks back, but my level went high.
Thank you.
linda187 p12445
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I have to tell you I don't know what it will do when combined with PTU. I used it with Methimazole and took both at the same time. When I needed to lower my values, I took them combined one day and then the next day, I took only the Acetyl and it did correct my values. I started on Regular L-Carnitine before I tried the Acetyl. I also got my levels checked for Total Carnitine and Free Carnitine as well as my vitamin D and Magnesium levels before I took these supplements. It might be helpful if you did this as well. I took the Regular L-Carnitine as a prescription medication in liquid form because I would have had to swallow a lot of capsules otherwise to take a dose of 3,000 mg. For the Acetyl, I took 500 mg capsules mostly, but once found 225 mg capsules.
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I started taking ALC500mg with MMI5mg 28 days ago and then about 7 days ago the blood result T4/T3 showed low and I felt in hypo, so I reduced MMI to 2.5 mg... Yet my TSH went from <0.01 (b4 mmi & alc)) to 0.01 to 0.12 (when T4, T3 down to lower limit). Meanwhile my TSI went from 203% (b4 med) to 340% !!!
Questions: 1. why get hypo while TSH is still low? 2. why TSI get even higher as TSH rising? Isn't ALC to lower TSI too? Thanks for all comments. (no chance asking my docs until later appointments.)
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