Has anybody been taking this? If so please tell me if you are still taking it and if you stopped why? Also how many 60 mg tablets do you need to replace 50 mg of thyroxide? Do you get side effects? Where do you get them from me etc?
Well, first I think you mean 50mcgs of Thyroxine (T4 or synthroid/Levothyroxine).
Assuming that is what you mean, read on:
A 60mg tablet of Taiwanese "Thiroyd" is ABOUT the same as 60mcgs Thyroxine, or 1 grain of an NDT.
So if you have been taking 50 mcgs of Thyroxine one grain or tablet of "Thiroyd", would be a tiny increase in dose.
But don't forget to ramp up this dose. Start with 1/4 pill (approx 15 mgs = 1/4 grain). Stay on that for about a week then add another 1/4 and so on, slowly up to the complete 60 mg pill. You will then be at a little over 50mcgs Levo/Syn.
Take the pill one hour before breakfast with a lot of water.
Now, pay very close attention to how you feel, you should feel better with the introduction of T3, but pay very close attention.
Thank you so much. Have been taking thyroxine butnot sure it is helping at all. Have a constant cold, cough, run down, feel very old and past it all of the time, ear aches come and go, bad congestion, headaches, pains in head etc, a lot of the things I had before I started to take it. I now stopped taking the thyroxine a few days ago and already noticed the cough is much better, so are the ears, congestion not so bad, but still feel very cold and run down and have the constant cold. I am now taking an Irish natural thyroid for past few days but will move on to the Taiwan version when they run out soon.
Am considering going to see a naturopath who specialises in all of this but it is very expensive and it means my husband taking a day off of workunpaid and a very long journey and of course one visit doeds not do it, it becomes an ongong thing. If you only go once or twice it is a waste of time and money not to follow it through.
The Taiwan tablets are very small and very similar to the thyroxine so very difficult to cut them into smaller bits, but use a pill cutter and a half can become a quarter or a third, very hit and miss. I wouldhave thought taht if you have stopped taking the thyroxine you should replace it with an equal dose?
Hi Carmel, when I was on the wrong Levo at the wrong dose - undermedicated in an effort by my Endo to increase my TSH (idiot!) - I too went through that constant snively cold phase, always feeling like I was on the edge of the 'flu. Levo only supplies T4 and if your body is not converting to T3 and then to T2 and T1 then you will eventually feel pretty awful - in a lot of ways not just the snivels.
This is my theory (and I am not a medic), I have read that either T1 or T2 (I think it is T2) has something to do with the immune system, so if you are not converting down from T4 (and a lot of us don't) then you will not have a very good immune system to attack anything that is invading your body.
I have also read that introduction of any T4, with or without T3 will send your blood pressure up maybe just slightly but this can affect your ears, either slight or loud tinnitis or ear ache. i now have slight tinnitis, I am on NDT but I had terrible tinnitis on the wrong dose of a bad brand of Levo.
Just thought I would pass this along.