Underactive thyroid

[Shona-g]

Hi. I'm Taking thyroxine and wondered if I could take epson salt for constipation aswell.

Thanks 😊

[greygoose]

Well, if I were you, I wouldn't take Epsom salts, it tastes awful! Much better to get Magnesium Citrate. You're probably horribly deficient in magnesium, anyway.

Save the Epsom Salts for the bath, or soaking your feet!

[RedApple Administrator in reply to greygoose]

Funnily enough, years ago when I was still titrating my thyroxine dose (and hence very hypo), I tried soaking my painful feet for an hour in a bowl of warm water with a very liberal dose of epson salts dissolved in. It did help soothe the painful feet, but an unexpected bonus was that it had a mega impact on the constipation!

That lead me to conclude that epson salts can be administered transdermally and still have an effect on the intestines. I recall thinking that if soaking my feet for an hour had that big an effect, I wasn't about to risk bathing in it! I never tried it again, so don't know if I just used way too much or if it was sheer co-incidence.

[greygoose in reply to RedApple]

Hmmm... bathing in Epsom Salts never had that effect on me.

[humanbean]

I took epsom salts internally once (i.e. I dissolved the stuff in water and I drank it). The taste... Bleurgh! I would never take it internally again!

There are other ways of taking magnesium for constipation, as mentioned above by greygoose and RedApple.

You might find the following links helpful :

naturalnews.com/046401_magn...

metabolics.com/blog/the-def...

globalhealingcenter.com/nat...

I'm like greygoose - I take magnesium citrate. But different types of magnesium supplement are useful for different things, as explained by the links above.

[TupennyRush]

I've found having oats plus oat bran very beneficial. I mix 200 g oat plus 100 g oat bran with 75 g of nuts and 75 g dried fruit and eat it as muesli. It works marvels. You can toast the nuts and oats in the oven for 10 mins on a baking tray which I don't do any more as I don't notice much difference

[MariLiz]

I only took them to help dry up breast milk and they taste awful! I would try anything else first. Dried apricots are good, and magnesium supplements.

[thyr01d]

I find vitamin C does the trick