Thank you, that is most interesting! I wouldn’t call this nearly conclusive evidence, but I would certainly call it further weak evidence to stick on the pile.
My favourite in this line is Gordon Skinner’s paper “Clinical Response to Thyroxine Sodium in Clinically Hypothyroid but Biochemically Euthyroid Patients”.
and stuck everything I found on it, but it’s drawn remarkably little interest. I’ll read this nice new paper and add it there.
But you want to hear about my own experiences, so:
In short, thyroid’s been an almost perfect fix for me ever since I wrote all that, so much so that I’ve lost interest in the subject. I currently take 100ug of T4 and 1 grain of NDT every day, and that’s been fairly stable for around four years now.
My TSH is almost always suppressed (i.e. 0), but my only health problems are sports injuries, and I don’t have any of the symptoms of hyperthyroidism.
I don’t feel *perfectly* well, occasionally I feel a bit more tired than seems reasonable, and sometimes I get depressed for no good reason, but usually fiddling around with the dose seems to sort that out. (too hot, down a bit, too tired/sad, up a bit)
I’ve never gone back to being the bouncy energetic person I was in my thirties, but it’s nothing compared to the living hell of chronic fatigue syndrome. I play tennis three times a week and cycle to my office every day.
However, I do know two or three people who had something CFS-like and bought my arguments and tried thyroid to fix it, and all they got was a feeling of overstimulation, like drinking far too much coffee, and they didn’t think it was worth sticking with. So it clearly won’t fix everybody or even a plurality of CFS people.
That wasn’t my experience, for me it was an excellent instant fix for everything that was wrong with me. Too good to be true.
So my advice is to give it a go. It probably won’t work, but you should be able to tell easily if it’s going to work for you. Be careful though, do the research and try very small doses of NDT at first.
Thank you, that is most interesting! I wouldn’t call this nearly conclusive evidence, but I would certainly call it further weak evidence to stick on the pile.
My favourite in this line is Gordon Skinner’s paper “Clinical Response to Thyroxine Sodium in Clinically Hypothyroid but Biochemically Euthyroid Patients”.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13590840050043530
I did once make a subreddit devoted to this sort of thing:
https://www.reddit.com/r/thethyroidmadness/
and stuck everything I found on it, but it’s drawn remarkably little interest. I’ll read this nice new paper and add it there.
But you want to hear about my own experiences, so:
In short, thyroid’s been an almost perfect fix for me ever since I
wrote all that, so much so that I’ve lost interest in the subject. I
currently take 100ug of T4 and 1 grain of NDT every day, and that’s
been fairly stable for around four years now.
My TSH is almost always suppressed (i.e. 0), but my only health
problems are sports injuries, and I don’t have any of the symptoms of
hyperthyroidism.
I don’t feel *perfectly* well, occasionally I feel a bit more tired
than seems reasonable, and sometimes I get depressed for no good reason, but usually fiddling around with the dose seems to sort that out. (too hot, down a bit, too tired/sad, up a bit)
I’ve never gone back to being the bouncy energetic person I was in my thirties, but it’s nothing compared to the living hell of chronic fatigue syndrome. I play tennis three times a week and cycle to my office every day.
However, I do know two or three people who had something CFS-like and
bought my arguments and tried thyroid to fix it, and all they got was
a feeling of overstimulation, like drinking far too much coffee, and
they didn’t think it was worth sticking with. So it clearly won’t fix everybody or even a plurality of CFS people.
That wasn’t my experience, for me it was an excellent instant fix for
everything that was wrong with me. Too good to be true.
So my advice is to give it a go. It probably won’t work, but you
should be able to tell easily if it’s going to work for you. Be
careful though, do the research and try very small doses of NDT at
first.