Some people will tolerate once a day dosing well and others will not (especially on higher doses). Some people can feel less energetic when their T3 levels are unsteady. Once a day dosing can contribute to unsteady T3 levels. When patients respond favorably to a T4 Test dose that is a good indicator that they are experiencing unsteady T3 levels.

Patients who are experiencing unsteady T3 levels may benefit from following the WT3 protocol which calls for twice a day dosing.

Also, people's bodies tend to acclimate to the T3 after being on it for months and then their bodies may be more inclined to tolerate more easily the once a day dosing.

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Best regards,
Denis Wilson, MD  

Dear Jody,

The WT3 protocol is a treatment that can be helpful in restoring normal body temperature patterns. Normal body temperatures often seem to recalibrate the function of the body to the point that people can remain improved off treatment. In other words, just normalizing the temperatures themselves, in many cases, seems to be able to break the vicious cycle or downward spiral that so many people seem to be stuck in and convert it into an upward spiral of improving health.

When the correction doesn't hold there are a couple of possibilities. First, the same stressors that were at play to cause the low temperatures to begin with might still be at play. If job or family stresses, nutritional deficiencies, and/or toxicities (for example) are not addressed, then they can cause relapses just as they caused the initial temperature drop.

Anything people can do to improve their health and well being may help them to maintain a normal temperature. People can use strategies to reduce stress, improve diet and exercise, and perhaps to detoxify their bodies. Some people that have had their mercury amalgums removed followed by detoxifying chelation, for example, have noticed their temperatures come up and stay up.

Some people are able to avoid relapses by taking a small prophylactic dose of T3. For example, whereas they might need 30 mcg / dose while cycling on and off T3, some do well by weaning down and staying on 7.5 mcg / dose indefinitely. This may provide the body with some "encouragement" to not fall back into WTS.

Some people do seem to have a very strong hereditary predisposition toward developing low body temperatures. Such people might actually need long term care of one sort or another.

Some people can use the T3 prophylactically just during times of stress. In other words, they can stay off the T3 most of the time, but might take 7.5 mcg / dose for a day before, the day of, and the day after a stressful event to help ward off relapses.

Yes, there are other patients that don't seem to feel well on any other thyroid replacement than T3 alone, and many doctors have no problem leaving patients on T3 alone indefinitely. Doctors can always monitor such patients over time if they have any concerns about any long term effects.

Best regards,
Denis Wilson, MD  

Hi Dawn,

You may want to look at this part of the Doctor's Manual. You see, there are two goals of the WT3 therapy and they are not always accomplished at the same time. In other words, people can get to feeling better off treatment even though they don't feel very well on treatment. Some people only notice feeling better after the treatment has been discontinued.

The reason for this is that correcting the problem is often dependent on "capturing" the temperature, but feeling well on the treatment often depends on being able to keep the T3 levels steady enough for the patient to feel well. Even when patients take the medicine perfectly on time and never make a mistake on their dosing times they may still have difficulty keeping their T3 levels steady enough to feel well.

Some patients that aren't feeling better on WT3 therapy can sometimes notice an improvement when given a T4 test dose as described in this link.

Best wishes,
Denis Wilson, MD

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