been on thyroxine 15 yrs at 250 mcg daily Am i ... - Thyroid UK
been on thyroxine 15 yrs at 250 mcg daily Am i deficient in iodine?? Had 6 pregnancies in 4 yrs 3 miscarriages is taking iodine the answer??
Looking forward to an answer
I think you can buy old fashion iodine on the net. And put a few drops on the inside of your arm and leave it. See how long it takes to absorb.
Carol
Utterly discredited as a means of assessing iodine levels. Sorry.
Rod
Helvella, Perhaps so it's a matter of observation.
In medicine there appears to be poor observation.
One size fits all.
You can't see how much hormone your cells are taking on board by a one off test. My doctors seem to concentrate on the blood test that is right and ignore the ones that are wrong.
They don't give you loading tests.
T3 has a rebound reaction like migraine after 2 or 3 months.
Where the system can over dose. And some aspects reoccur.
You need to reduce the amount taken.
If you use your skin and your eyes and watch what happens.
Even colour grade the way the iodine fades.
On a colour chart. That's how old fashioned science would of done it.
People who live in Switzerland have more oxygen in their blood
because it's allowed a genetic variation to allow them to live in the mountains. So that applies to anything.
The UK is full of people from different places.
But one size fits all so how can you tell what's right for you?
Low thyroid like sickle cell maybe adapted to live in a certain place? Where is there a lot of iodine in the water?
Probably near the sea. But environment has leached the stuff from our bodies anyway. Derbyshire is one of the worse places to live for thyroid. Because the fluoride leaches the iodine out.
Carol
The links below are from people are are absolutely not anti-iodine. But they both say that the iodine patch test is unreliable. The science quoted is dated 1932, I wonder if that counts as old-fashioned?
Pointing out the short-comings of the iodine patch test does not endorse anything else.
thyroid.about.com/library/d...
optimox.com/pics/Iodine/upd...
Rod
My grandfather swore by iodine. They used to cover patients before an operation in the stuff. What they use now?
They stopped selling it over the counter because it caused the wound to scar as it killed the cells on the edge of the wound.
Whether it did?
Like too much salt = heart attacks
Or poor observation by scientist as other salts come out of solution like salt if there is not enough magnesium.
Your average Victorian only lived to 35
The age of death in 1950 was 50.
There were very few cancers pre world war 11.
Each generation has it's problems.
Clean water stopped a lot of problems.
Carol
Iodine-based disinfectants are still used. However there have been quite a number of issues from doing so - in some people.
Iodine (both as tincture and as povidone) was certainly available a few months ago.
As I said, I don't think either of those links was to someone who has/had an anti-iodine position. Simply that the patch test is not an adequate way of assessing iodine levels.
Rod
You are also making a huge assumption about the original poster. Iodine patches only show up well on skin which is towards the whiter end of the spectrum. I doubt it is possible to make an adequate assessment against a dark skin.
I have NO idea of the skin colours of most of the people here - we mostly don't even know that people's icons are anything like the real person.
Rod
Do you have any recent copies of your blood tests and their ranges ? Your dose of T4 looks quite high - but is it converting into the ACTIVE thyroid hormone T3 ? I think there is quite a bit on this forum about miscarriage - which must be so difficult for you to cope with. I do not know about the Iodine - the jury is still out ? Have you been tested for Hashimotos ? B12 VitD Iron Ferritin Folate ???
Type Iodine into the SEARCH BOX on the GREEN BAR at the top of this page - lots of information will appear for you to read.....
I think it would be better for you if your GP added T3 to your T4. T3 is the active hormone that T4 should convert to enough T3 for you to be well. You may have been on too low a dose of levo too. This is a link re pregnancy and the first two are re infertility etc. The links within most probably wont work as it is archived.
