doses without a blood test and doctor supervision. This is not a do-it-yourself,
topic.

Diabetics taking R-lipoic should have doctor supervision and test blood sugar more often to see what effects or any it will have on diabetic treatments.

I am at a loss as to the "high dose" of synthroid that wasn't available?
0.3mg has always been available..since this drug came out.

I have only had one man receive it tho, in the 30yrs it has been around...
and he told me his doctor gave it to him to lower extremely high cholesterol.
I assume now with the statins out there, he is doing those, instead of the .3mg Synthroid.

I had one patient who was a DOG...yes a DOG get it, because dogs need higher doses than people for some strange reason.

But patients who have their whole thyroid REMOVED do not typically get more than .15 or .175, and in reality do well on .125 most of the time!

Use of massive doses is confusing, and indicates to me that people are NOT taking the medication on an empty stomach like they are supposed to do (this is fairly new information)...or that they have some extreme deficiency in Selenium and Zinc which are required by the body to convert Synthroid to active T3 in the tissues. One is not going to see massive doses of Synthroid being given because we now know that high thyroid hormone levels cause rapid bone tear down, and hence osteoporosis.

It just occurred to me that -J- may have tried to get .3mg during one of the production interruptions for Synthroid.
This drug has had it's patent sold I think 3 times now. It is now made by Abbott. But it originally was by Flint, then Boots,
then Abbott bought it. I have heard thru the manufacturing grapevine that Abbott is struggling with it still, to standardize
doses. I myself switched to the generic a while ago...and Mylan works just fine for me. I had a patient who HATES Synthroid
and will not take it. She claimed that her RX was no made correctly and conflicted with a surgery she had....her doctor won't let her
use that brand at all!