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Just been diagnosed with overactive thyroid can any help with me levels please?

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loulabellla
loulabellla

Hi,

I was dianosed on Tuesday and dr told me I had high levels of T3 & T4, can anyone help in telling me just how high these are in comparison to other please?

My T3 is 30.8 and T4 is 58.2.

The drs have worried me slightly as they are requesting the specialist at the hospital see me urgently and its been a little bit like information overload, I only had the blood test on Monday and got and urgent call to the hospital Tues evening to collect some medication as I was required start it asap

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  • debbie94227
    debbie94227

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    How much L-carnitine do you take daily?
  • linda187
    linda187

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    I started on 1,000 mg daily but cut it back when my TSH rose. I have cut back to 500 mg daily and will be cutting down to 250 mg as soon as I buy that dosage. The capsules are 500 mg each. You need to monitor your blood work closely and adjust your dose of carnitine and methimazole as your TSH rises.
  • linda187
    linda187

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    I contacted Sigma Tau, the company that manufactures L-Carnitine and the company that sponsored the studies that Dr. Benvenga did with hyperthyroidism and L-Carnitine in Italy in the early 2000's. I spoke to the medical director who said he was going to Italy in mid-February and is going to present my experience with Acetyl-L-Carnitine to colleagues there. I sure hope this leads to clinical trials with acetyl-L-Carnitine and that they learn more about how it can benefit people with Graves disease. They seemed very very interested.

    I know I have posted on this Board before about my experience with Acetyl-L-Carnitine and physicians especially are reluctant to endorse it because there are no significant studies or publications on this other than the one I mentioned before but that was with regular L-Carnitine.

    I believe if others try it and have the same experiences that I did, that people on high doses of meds will be able to reduce their meds if they add the Acetyl-L-Carnitine.

    I would love to hear from anyone who tries acetyl-L-Carnitine and gets positive results in the normalization of all of their thyroid blood tests and the alleviation of their troublesome symptoms.

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