Best thyroid Med

sportsfan8724 · Apr 2, 2017

Been on 60 mg of armour thyroid for years seems to be working well my free t3 is normally about 4.0 Ive heard switching to nature thyroid might be better and some of the top docs are switching their patients. Any feedback??

Vince · Apr 2, 2017

Good Question, I'm interested in the answer. Hopefully Vettester Chris will chime, if not we need to PM him.

sportsfan8724 · Apr 2, 2017

You are on armour too correct Vince? I take it you have heard nature-throid is gaining steam too lol

HarryCat · Apr 2, 2017

Since the manufacturer of Armour jacked up the price significantly a lot of people are switching. I don't think you can make a blanket statement that one is better than the other, different people will react differently to different meds. I know one guy who gets ERFA from Canada since he doesn't do well on the meds available in the US.

Vettester Chris · Apr 2, 2017

sportsfan8724 said:
Been on 60 mg of armour thyroid for years seems to be working well my free t3 is normally about 4.0 Ive heard switching to nature thyroid might be better and some of the top docs are switching their patients. Any feedback??

There were some changes made during the Activas acquisition in 2015, a lot of people started complaining that Armour wasn't as effective. I think the other major factor was that people were seeing a lot of huge price hikes, which might be why you're seeing some switching take place. I've heard good things with Naturethroid, but have never used it. After the Armour deal, it's been either compounded NDT through Defy or Cytomel through my GP on this end.

Also, if you're hitting 4.0pg/ml (2.0-4.4?) on 1 grain, that's pretty good. 1 grain will put me around 50% of reference range, 1.5 grains about 60%, which for me is fine, anything more gets me a little more jittery than desired. 4.0pg/ml on that same ref scale is 83%. Just be sure to compare how that sits in relation to your Free T4, and in relation to Reverse T3 with factoring the ratio, FT3/RT3.