Thyroid Meds: Why Timing Your Labs Matters!

I think testing labs off meds is a very dangerous practice if you're on an active thyroid hormone. In fact, I know it's a dangerous practice. We check labs at the highest possible threshold that someone's T3 gets in their blood levels. Why? Because I want to know the Highest level their T3 gets in their blood levels so that I can protect them from over medication of T3. I don't ever want to guess about the single most risky aspect of active thyroid medications, which is over medication of T3. These meds are very safe when you know what you're doing and you have the data. They can hurt people, they can kill people, if you make decisions without proper data. So if someone is choosing to check your labs 24 hours after you take your thyroid medication and it has T3 in it, so these are drugs like Armour, NP, Ironine, Cytomil. They have no idea what your medication is doing and now they're basing decisions off how to dose your medication when they have no idea what it's doing in your blood, in your bloodstream, and what it's actually, how it's impacting your physiology, which is, to me, medically quite irresponsible, because that medicine, that active thyroid hormone, is gone from your bloodstream 18 to 24 hours after you take it.