Natural Supplements for Thyroid?

[rjerome812]

Are their supplements that will help the thyroid? My doctor doesn't feel my levels are high enough to treat , and until I can get the medication I need is there a way to supplement?

[Treepie]

I think you need to post your levels with the ranges and ask again in a new post.

[greygoose]

You mean vitamins and minerals? They are very important but they can't replace hormones - nothing can replace hormones except hormones.

But, if your nutrients are optimal, you stand a better chance of doing well on thyroid hormone replacement than if they were deficient. So, ask your doctor to test vit D, vit B12, folate and ferritin, And see if anything needs supplementing.

Do you have the results of your thyroid tests? If so, it would be a good idea to post them on here.

[rjerome812 in reply to greygoose]

I posted them , My Vitamin D results were hard to understand. so I dont know if Im low or not.

[rjerome812]

My Tsh was 2.31 on 1/2016 and now as of 9/30 3.35. I had 2 Vitamin D tests ( vit D 25-0h D2 -<4ng/ml) (Vit D 25-oh Total -34ng/ml) . Im not sure how to read the Vitamin D tests. My Vitamin B was 325. I know in January my vitamin B was 485. So it has dropped. My T3 was 106. Thats all I in regards to thyroid. I had an ANA titer that was Positive also, not sure what thats about.

[greygoose in reply to rjerome812]

ANA is a non specific test for autoimmunity. If it was positive it means you have spme sort of antibodies, but it doesn't say which.

Your B12 is a bit low. It should be at least more than 500. So that wants supplementing.

I don't understand your vit D results, either, the way they're written. No folate or ferritin?

Your T3 result is rather strange. Do you have a range for it? I think it's possibly a Total T3, which doesn't give you any useful information. What you want is the Free T3.

Your TSH is too high to be healthy, and shows your thyroid is struggling.

[rjerome812 in reply to greygoose]

Its funny because some tests show the range and others dont. I see my doctor tomorrow , I will ask her to explain to me along with getting some other tests done. I have not had a Ferritin test in the last couple years from the paperwork i have. So i will request one . Thank s

[greygoose in reply to rjerome812]

Normally, there are three vit D tests : vit D2, vit D3 and total vit D. But in what you've posted there, I can't even see a result. I hope your doctor can interpret it better. But, she's probably going to say it's 'fine', whatever the result is, so insist on a number.