Yes lots of people do. I was started on just cytomel but once I started (25mcg daily) it drove down my FT4 so I was eventually put on synthroid as well to get my FT4 back in range. This doesn't happen to everyone.
If you could post your labs that would be great. LTChris, do you just take your dose once a day or do you split it up.I am currently on 50mcg cytomel. Still titrating to find right dose. I do feel a little better since going to striaght T3, but not where I want to be. I have labs taken today. I'll let you know?
Some of the best info I found on T3 was from a researcher named John C Lowe. He died from an accident but he was the first guy to learn that fibromyalgia was a result of low T3 or not enough T3 getting into your cellular structure. Quite a brilliant guy. It was his research that led me to to trying T3. He had to take 125mcg daily to feel normal. He claimed that taking it once daily was fine as most MD's that did Rx it would almost always dose it several times a day. I ended up trying both ways and found that dosing it once daily worked fine. He claimed that he was able to cure fibromyalgia successfully in 85% of his patients with T3. Google him, he used to have many websites related to his research. Ironically he was a chiropractor before he started doing research.
A friend of my fiance has fibromyalgia, she's takes lots of pain pills and now she's addicted to the pills. I wonder how many doctors know about this information about T3.
It's a start, she did listen to me and I told her your story. I would like my FT3 and FT4 to top 75% range, she said we'll adjust my meds and hopefully I'll get my thyroid dialed-in.90mg armour (who people are saying isn't very good anymore) is 1.5 grains which equals approx. 12mcg T3 and 52.5mcg T4. With T3 below range many people feel depressed. Also your Ft4 is below 50% (1.25) You also need to increase this. By substituting NDT with Cytomel you end up losing more T4. You may have to take 100mcg Synthroid to get yout FT4 above 50%. Hopefully 25mcg T3 should get your T3 towards the upper end.