Experiences with

Biaxin

I have been on acalabrutinib for almost two years and I am beginning to think I could be the poster child for side effects. My hair is very brittle and breaking off and my nails seem to be disintegrating. They split down the middle and then peel in layers. I already take 10,000 biotin once a day and

Hi all, Just a quick question, how long do I need to stop taking biotin (B Complex tablets) before blood test for TSH, FT4 and hopefully FT3? I have a test booked for Wednesday 8.30 am and stupidly forgot to stop taking my B Complex. Is five days enough or should I delay blood test for a couple of

Looking for advice, any help / steers will be most gratefully received. Health wise, I've had a rough few month’s with new symptoms creeping in that may or may not be hypothyroid related?! My current Liothyronine dosage is 20 morning (circa 0630), 20 lunchtime (1200) and 10 early evening (1700).

About a year ago I started using the concept of plateauing in that when symptoms stopped improving I considered that plateauing and rejected that meant I could only wait and changed my supplementation regime. With experience I was able to discern that healing was slowing and I would change my supplementation

Hello this is my first post here so I apologise if I do anything wrong. I am currently 10 weeks pregnant and on 50mg levothyroxine 5x a week and 75mg 2 times a week. I was prescribed this for subclinical hypothyroidism by my IVF clinic. Now I'm 10 weeks pregnant and with the NHS. I didn't realise that

Came across the following statement on Seeking Health website - link to the article https://www.seekinghealth.com/blogs/education/taking-folate-and-feeling-bad-methylation-requires-balance [i]"Increased methylation may also negatively impact neurotransmitter production, such as dopamine, norepinephrine

Niacin Cures Systemic NAD + Deficiency and Improves Muscle Performance in Adult-Onset Mitochondrial Myopathy 2020 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550413120303016 To read the full article click on the PDF link on the page. "NAD + is a redox-active metabolite, the depletion of which

Interesting read on why the world (mistakenly?) turned its back on Nicotinic Acid: Go here: The Niacin Rebirth: Revisiting the Potential of Nicotinic Acid Therapy for Cardiovascular Disease and Niacin Supplementation for Healthy Aging https://esmed.org/MRA/mra/article/view/5521 Then right

Advice on here has been it’s ok to continue with folate and B12 separately up until blood tests but my GP ( catching on!) website says folate and biotin can ( as we know) alter results. I have continued with folate and B12 but stopped B Complex. Is this ok? Confused!

My head is in a spin! I've just had a telephone appt with my endocrinologist who chopped and changed what she proposed to do as the next steps and did a complete turnaround within about 10 minutes of talking to me! At first, she said I'm over replaced with my current Levothyroxine dosage (100mcg) as

Happy New Year everyone! Jaydee1507 recommended I start a new post with my latest blood test results. I’m due to speak to a doctor tomorrow and I’m guessing they’ll keep monitoring the situation. I’ve had two sets of blood work done since I first posted. Any idea why they’d be so different a week

Before you all groan thinking this has been covered , as I well know slightly different. More just feedback from ones on Adalimumab which I started last week, do any of you take supplements while on this? In particular Biotin, Cod liver oil, and Glucosamine Chondroitin? I will enquire via RA advice

A study about dementia, sorting inflammatory foods vs anti-inflammatory. I'm always confused about this topic because people have such wildly differing beliefs about diet in PMR. (I'm not a believer) The other thing, Jack Cush at Rheum Now said that alcohol is anti-inflammatory in one of his podcasts

Hello Everyone , Fasting blood sample taken in the morning (11:30am, T3 taken at 7:30am) . Stopped biotin couple of days before. Below are the latest blood test results. (December 2024). FREE T3 6.3 pmol/L 3.1 - 6.8 CREATININE 118  umol/L Please note method changed to enzymatic and ref range

I'm so annoyed with my GP. I've not been feeling well for a couple of weeks and have been experiencing shortness of breath. Concerned it was asthma related I saw the out of hours GP who ordered some blood tests, to rule out heart function. I contacted my GP to request the test be put on the system. Unfortunately

Hi, These are my latest results and am wondering what people think please. I am still trying to get my T3 dose correct and currently taking T4 100mcg and T3 12.5mcg morning & 25mcg in the afternoon. I feel much better but just wondering what others think. NHS Blood test didn’t test for vitamin levels

This was sent as advice from blue horizon, just thought it interesting them saying to stop biotin 8 hours prior to testing.

One group of frequent questions on this and many other forums is whether a test result is "normal", good or "optimum". While we all try to answer helpfully, the truth is that it is almost unanswerable. Part of the problem is that for many tests, there has never been adequate harmonisation. The same

hair s been thinning for a while now, could years of prednisone, aging etc but now on methotrexate noticing bit more thinning, been reading up on biotin, effectiveness, side affects, etc, apparently science claims wont necessarily help hair loss, and like various other vitamins not FDA approved

how many days before a blood test do I need to stop a b complex that contains biotin? Is it just 2 days?