picante
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I've recently added in riboflavin-5'-phosphate and am tolerating 10 mg/day (divided into 2 doses). I had to back down drastically on MeB12 (1 itty bitty drop transdermally) and AdB12 (1500 mcg every 4 days or so). But I'm just grateful that I found a form of riboflavin I can actually tolerate (the sublingual FMN was hell).
This was my new equilibrium ... until I switched thyroid meds. I was on Mexican Cynomel (T3), and it's no longer available, so I'm now trying T3/T4 compounded in *olive oil*. My ND agreed to this at my request, so that I can tweak the dose. (He doesn't want me to get hyperthyroid. I agree.) I'm taking it sublingually.
I started it Thursday, and my main potassium-deficiency symptom kicked right in: neck spasms. My total K consumption was 1200 mg (potassium gluconate) on both Thursday & Friday. Then yesterday evening I took my AdB12 dose (it had been 5 days).
I woke up with the stiffest #%@! neck I've had in years. All day I've been shoveling in potassium (and thiamine, since taking K depletes that). It's bedtime, and I've taken 2250 mg. And the consarned neck spasm is still plaguing me.
I expect I'll be shoveling in potassium all night. I plan to cut out AdB12 until I can get stabilized on the new thyroid med.
Any suggestions, dear friends? Would it be worthwhile to try potassium chloride?
Any hypotheses about how the change in thyroid med (and the addition of riboflavin) might have influenced my methylation status? I've had NO T4 in my body for several years. (I was not converting it well.)
This was my new equilibrium ... until I switched thyroid meds. I was on Mexican Cynomel (T3), and it's no longer available, so I'm now trying T3/T4 compounded in *olive oil*. My ND agreed to this at my request, so that I can tweak the dose. (He doesn't want me to get hyperthyroid. I agree.) I'm taking it sublingually.
I started it Thursday, and my main potassium-deficiency symptom kicked right in: neck spasms. My total K consumption was 1200 mg (potassium gluconate) on both Thursday & Friday. Then yesterday evening I took my AdB12 dose (it had been 5 days).
I woke up with the stiffest #%@! neck I've had in years. All day I've been shoveling in potassium (and thiamine, since taking K depletes that). It's bedtime, and I've taken 2250 mg. And the consarned neck spasm is still plaguing me.
I expect I'll be shoveling in potassium all night. I plan to cut out AdB12 until I can get stabilized on the new thyroid med.
Any suggestions, dear friends? Would it be worthwhile to try potassium chloride?
Any hypotheses about how the change in thyroid med (and the addition of riboflavin) might have influenced my methylation status? I've had NO T4 in my body for several years. (I was not converting it well.)