I hope someone out there can clarify as I am a little confused! I am now finally on NDT; half a grain in the am and half in the afternoon. I know not to eat for 2 hours either side but what about supplements? I am on a long list of supplements and I am worried they will interfere with the NDT.
I know not to take magnesium, calcium and Iron 4 hours either side but what about the following;
Selenium 200 mcg
B-12 5000 mg
Vitamin
D3 5,000 iu
Kelp (Iodine)
Cod Liver Oil 1000 mg
Zinc 25 mg
Thank you!!
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Iron, calcium and vitamin D should be taken 4 hours away from thyroid meds. Other supplements should be taken two hours away. Magnesium can be a relaxant so can be taken at bedtime.
Kelp contains a lot of iodine which you shouldn't need when you are taking thyroid meds. Too much iodine isn't good for hypothyroid and Hashimoto's patients and can raise TSH and trigger Hashi flares.
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Did your doctor test your iodine before telling you to take iodine? If not, then he doesn't know what he's talking about.
There are a lot of doctors who think that all you need to do for a thyroid problem is throw iodine at it. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Excess iodine can cause all sorts of problems - including causing hypothyroidism. True, you need iodine to make thyroid hormone, but if half your factory has burnt down, shovelling in more raw goods isn't going to increase production, is it.
Besides, if you are taking thyroid hormone, you are taking iodine, because every molecule of T4 contains 4 atoms of iodine, which are removed, one by one, and recycled.
Do you know if you have Hashis? If so, taking iodine could make things worse. And won't help because your gland - factory - is slowly being destroyed, and therefore cannot make more hormone. So, taking iodine is really a bad idea.
Yes, I'm having trouble typing on this site as well. So no worries about the typos. Thanks so much for your reply, I thought that was the case, he suggesting Iodine for a small goiter. Is that still a bad idea?
Well, yes, because the goitre is your thyroid, and the iodine goes straight there - and won't necessarily get rid of the goitre. What you need is an optimal dose of thyroid hormones and a complete thyroid panel :
Oh, they do make me cross with their 'borderline'. Makes no sense with antibodies, because they fluctuate so much. And you don't know if that's the highest they're going to get or the lowest, or somewhere inbetween. I think the best you can say is 'don't know'.
Your TSH is okish, but your FT3 is much too low. So, you're going to need several increases before you feel any better, or before it has any effect on the goitre.
That is going to suppress your TSH, but it really doesn't matter. You don't need it anymore because you're taking T3 ready-made, as it were.
Don't bother about the FT4, either. That is going to be low when taking any form of T3 because the body doesn't need to hang on to as much. Hope your doctor knows all that!
Greygoose, thank you! I have only just seen this. Had a bit of a fog brain on for the last week! I was started on 32.5mg of Nature-throid twice a day for the first two weeks, but I don't feel much of a difference. I think it might need to up the dose!
Greygoose, sorry for all the questions, but I cannot figure out how to 'read' my own blood tests. What do the ranges mean? Or does anyone have a link to info on this?
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