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I'd like to read about that, if you can find a reference. If not, don't worry -- I'm an expert web searcher.
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lot of people get high RT3 when taking thyroxine. How long have you taken it? The best way to keep RT3 down is to not feed it with thyroxine. T4 is needed to make RT3; you can't make it from T3.
Yes, and I find it's frustrating trying to deal with both Hashi's and the T4-to-T3 conversion problem. Apparently,
we need glutathione for that conversion, and those of us with ME/CFS tend to have low glutathione due to methylation problems.
We also need Selenium for thyroid conversion. I just stated taking 400 mg. of Curcumin (the active ingredient in Turmeric) as it has so many great properties including anti-viral and anti inflammatory. I know it is powerful because my husband just started taking it for degenerative arthritis in his shoulder and the first night he was able to sleep on his side for the first time in ages. From all I've read curcumin's anti-inflammatory properties could help with fatigue and pain in CFS due to inflammation in the brain as well as inflammation in Hashimoto's. Here's an interesting article on that.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2637808/
Elevated Reverse T3 can be caused by any number of problems including CFS. Regardless of the underlying cause the mechanism involved it is a failure to properly convert T4 to T3 - it’s a thyroid hormone transport problem. The info below can be found on pg 31 of this link to a presentation called:
LDN and Thyroid Disorders Kent Holtorf, MD Holtorf Medical Group National Academy of Hypothyroidism
http://www.ldnresearchtrust.org/sites/default/files/Dr Kent Holtorf LDN and thyroid dysfuncton.pdf
Thyroid Hormone Transport pg. 31
•Conditions associated with reduced mitochondrial function, inflammation or immune dysfunction are associated with impaired thyroid transport
•Conditions include insulin resistance, diabetes and obesity;68,69,71,70,73,74,75,76,106 diabetes;69,73,74,75,76 neurodegenerative diseases;73,83,84,85,86,87) aging;73,74,88-100 chronic fatigue syndrome; 73,101,102 fibromyalgia; 73,103,104 migraines; 73 chronic infections; 73 cardiovascular disease; 73,99,104,105,108 and nflammation and chronic illness; 73,109,110,111
•Thus, standard blood tests can be very unreliable if any of these commonly occurring conditions are present and therapies that reduce inflammation (such as LDN) would be expected to improve dysfunctional thyroid transport.1-107