Originally Posted by mrsD

The problem with Cytomel is that is has a very very short half life in the body.

It might be possible to get it from a compounding pharmacy who will compound it into a sustained release form. You might have better results then without raising doses so high.

Also some compounding pharmacies have natural animal gland product as well.

So check your area to see if one can accommodate you this way.

T4 is converted with zinc and selenium. Being low on either one will reduce this conversion to T3 in tissues.

Originally Posted by Joano

This thread is very interesting to me as I am also hypothyroid, and I take .175 mg synthroid everyday and an additional half pill once a week. Two years ago I had emergency gall bladder surgery when a stone became stuck in the duct.

I recently read an article about Dr. Mark Starr's treatment of hypothyroidism, Type 2 (which I'd never heard of beforehand). I have a lot of the symptoms mentioned. He also treats patients with dessicated liver. I don't think my endo would be open to change, however. Dr. Starr has a clinic in Phoenix according to this article which was dated December 2008 and appeared in the "Townsend Letter, The Examiner of Alternative Medicine." I don't remember now what I was researching when I ran across it.