Steve,
In reading more updated info on T3, I have been hearing that ramping up and down is not needed other than a possible ramp up the first time to see how your body reacts to it, and a short ramp down of 2 weeks is still used at times. A good dose should be 50-75mcgs throughout, and not to go over 100mcgs. Here is an exerpt from a study basically saying that ramping shouldnt have any effect. No ramping was done in this study, and the thyroid still returned to normal within 2 weeks.
"In 1951, Greer reported the pattern of recovery of thyroid function after stopping suppressive treatment with thyroid hormone in euthyroid [normal] subjects based on sequential measurements of their thyroidal uptake of radioiodine. He observed that after withdrawal of exogenous thyroid therapy, thyroid function, in terms of radioiodine uptake, returned to normal in most subjects within two weeks. He further observed that thyroid function returned as rapidly in those subjects whose glands had been depressed by several years of thyroid medication as it did in those whose gland had been depressed for only a few days"
N Engl J Med 1975 Oct 2;293(14):681-4 Recovery of pituitary thyrotropic function after withdrawal of prolonged thyroid-suppression therapy. Vagenakis AG, Braverman LE, Azizi F, Portinay GI, Ingbar SH.
Anyone else with any other info?