How to take Armour Thyroid med? HELP PLEASE!!!!?!
Question: I have heard everyone on here saying they take "grains" of Armour. My doctor started me on 30mg tablets of Armour. Is this any different? I start in the morning and needed to know how to take it. I read the insert, but should i take it an hour b/f food, or what? I have also heard of letting it dissolve in your mouth instead of swallowing it? HELP!
Answers: I have heard everyone on here saying they take "grains" of Armour. My doctor started me on 30mg tablets of Armour. Is this any different? I start in the morning and needed to know how to take it. I read the insert, but should i take it an hour b/f food, or what? I have also heard of letting it dissolve in your mouth instead of swallowing it? HELP!
30mg is 1/2 a grain. It's a very low starting dose. The best way to rake Armour is 1/2 a pill in the morning and the other half in the afternoon. This helps if you have the symptom of fatigue. Some do fine taking it all at once. Do not take it at night though, as one other person suggested because the T3 in Armour might keep you awake.
About the dissolving in your mouth, its individal prefeence. I swallow my morning dose, but my afternoon dose I let dissolve near the gum line.
Armour is adjusted by free t4 and free t3, not TSH. Below is a website that should help answer any questions you may have.
The best thing you can do is to call your pharmacist. They can tell you exactly how to take it, when you can take it, and if there are any things that you should not take or eat with it. Pharmacists know much more about drugs and all the effects than your Md. does.
I always take mine in the evening before bed even though the box says take it in the morning before you eat. To me there is no difference in the way I feel between taking it in the morning or at night or with or without food. Don't panic just take it when you feel like it be morning or night.