I am low thyroid, just started cytomel, how long before I feel better?

Question

I feel horrible. They tried taking blood and it was so thick, they couldn't. Now that just sucks. Just wondering if anyone out there has experienced the same thing?

Answer 1

That's really a question you should be asking your doctor, not a bucn of kids on Yahoo, dontcha think?

Answer 2

I have an underactive thyroid and was on that garbage Synthroid for 3 years. I felt like sh i t on that stuff. within 3 hours of taking my first dose of Cytomel I could feel my energy coming back. After 5 months on it I am like my old self. I lost almost all the weight that I had put on from the under active thyroid, with out even changing my eating habits! And I feel great! The pharmacist told me it takes 4 to 6 months for your body to regulate itself on the Cytomel. So give it a chance. Good luck! But that doesn't have anything to do with "thick" blood. Maybe you also need a blood thinner?

Answer 3

Allow 4 weeks to start feeling a difference and getting a proper level of the drug in you.

Cytomel is not an anabolic/androgenic steroid but a thyroid hor­mone. As a substance it contains synthetically manufactured liothyronine sodium which resembles the natural thyroid hormone tricodide-thyronine (L-T3). The thyroid of a healthy person usually produces two hormones, the better known L-thyroxine (L-T4) and the aforementioned L-trilodine~thyronine (L-T3). Since Cytomel is the synthetic equivalent of the latter hormone, it causes the same processes in the body as if the thyroid were to produce more of the hormone.

It is interesting to note that L-T3 is clearly the stronger and more effective of these two hormones. This makes Cytomel more effective than the commercially available L-T4 compounds such as L-thyroxine or Synthroid. The manufacturer of the German L-T3 compound, Hoechst AG, ascribes the following characteristics to its Thybon drug, making it clear that L-T3 is superior to L-T4: "The synthetically manufactured thyroid hormone, L-trilodine-thyronine (L-T3), included in Thybon, in experimental and clinical testing has proven to be 4-5 times more biologically active and to take effect more quickly than L-thyroxine (L-T4)."

In school medicine Cytomel is used to treat thyroid insufficiency (hypothyroidism). Among other secondary symptoms are obesity, metabolic disorders, and fatigue.

Answer 4

It may take a few weeks, though some have noticed a difference in their energy level because of the Cytomel. Usually the dose of Cytomel is very small when added to Synthoid or Levoxyl, but a small amount really can make difference.

Answer 5

Should be instantaneous. The effects won't take place for over a month and you will need to "Cycle off" here and there to make sure you don't lose the effectiveness. I can go for hours about the drug itself, but the bottum line is, if you aren't feeling it off of 150mcg's a day then you need to go up to 200mcg's and so on. It's not going to kill you, even if you take the whole bottle.