----- Original Message -----From: jannz2Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 7:10 PMSubject: [lowdosenaltrexone] Re: ? about LDN dosing ???--- In lowdosenaltrexone@
yahoogroups. , slenzrph@... wrote:com
>
> Everyone is different. The fact that your thyroid is working better
would
> suggest that the LDN is working for your problem. You would be
better off if you
> adjusted your thyroid meds instead of switching the LDN dose.
> Skip
>
>
Thanks Skip...
I take both Levothroid (T4 @75mcg) and Cytomel (T3 @15mcg) -- I saw my
doctor on Monday and she suggested I cut my T4med by half and my T3med
by a third -- to try this reduced dose for a few days...see how I felt
-- then make a decision to resume the LDN on Friday.
At my appointment on Monday my heart rate was at 91 and I had lost 10
lbs in 2weeks (over the holidays) -- which are symptoms of the
overmedication. When your heart rate is that fast you can feel your
chest pound and it creates some anxious type feelings...bottom line:
it's just not a pleasant feeling.
Taking less thyroid meds has helped to bring my heart rate down, but I
was able to bring my heart rate down somewhat faster by taking some
magnesium. (In this instance I used a product called "Calm" -- you
make a hot "tea" with it. I had a couple of cups of a weak tea and I
could feel a difference in a couple of hours. )
I am my doctor's first patient on LDN so her prescription to lower my
thyroid meds is not based on any LDN experience -- it's just her 'best
guess' on how to handle this. When I asked her if she thought I should
take a lower LDN dose she indicated that LDN org website does not give
enough information about dosing... so she had no reference to guide
her on that recommendation. And she also commented that it wasn't
clear to her how it was determined that a 4.5 dose is where to start.
She reminded me... I know more about this therapy than she does. ugh.
If this "grass roots" effort to popularize LDN as a viable therapy is
take hold, then we need to provide the doctors that are willing to
think-outside-the box some good references (sites) to help guide them.
Jann
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