My vitamins

[leftbehind]

My self prescribed vitamins.

[Judithdalston]

Can’t see a post to show that you need these, or any other, minerals or vitamins...were you asking for advice?

[leftbehind]

It went with another post under Graves disease. Is there any way to put it there?

Because I wrote a complete detailed post under Graves disease and the whole leg disappeared. That I had to write it again. Then I added the vitamins in the next post. And now it's gone to the wrong place. I'm very disgusted and tired.

[Judithdalston in reply to leftbehind]

I had looked at your previous post to see if that had mentioned vits etc. Couldn’t quite read your handwriting ( mixing up 4 and 7) or work out which bit went with what date re FT3 results ...had it gone down recently quite a bit to 4.4, but not sure what was the upper end of range? You can’t put two photos together in one post. You can alter text in second either linking it to first , or put blood values in, as others might have same problems as me re 4 and 7. Did you have your vits/ mins tested recently?

[leftbehind in reply to Judithdalston]

No Endo or GP has ever discussed vitamins with me. I tell them what vitamins I'm taking and get no feedback at all. I'm picking vitamins that are listed in these blogs. there is no help here in the United States for Graves disease unless you are a movie star or a millionaire. I'm very disheartened. I keep trying different GPS and different endo and nothing happens it's all the same, they ignored the symptoms I try to send me to a specialist for every problem I have and I know it's relating to the graves disease. Thank you for your input. I hope other people do better than me oh, but it doesn't seem like they have any luck with their doctors either. I even take articles in that are very informative and they don't even want to look at them and refused to read them because it's on the internet, even if it's Mayo clinic. It's just plain terrible.

[Judithdalston in reply to leftbehind]

As silver fox below suggests can you get your vits/ mins tested....we rarely get ours tested in the U.K. either, and dr.s don’t understand their significance, but tend to rely on private labs where you buy a private kit to do bloods at home and send them off for testing...can you do the same in USA? Were your figures 4 or 7?

[kferrer in reply to leftbehind]

Have you looked into Stop the Thyroid Madness group? The books and the group both have lots of wonderful advice. Also, someone in the group may be able to give you a lead on a medical practitioner that could be a real help to you. Your supplements look reasonable to me. Testing is helpful but what you're taking seems pretty basic to me.

[silverfox7]

Doesn't help at all if doctors ignore you so I sympathise. You will probably have seen many posts on here saying we are often low in essential vitamins and specifically suggest testing Vit D, B12, folate and ferritin and also its pointed out that readings should be optimal, not just in range.

May be a better approach would be to ask for those to be tested then send us the results and ther ranges and then we can give advice then. It's often suggested that you test before supplementing but better later than never. It may be that not all are low or some or worse than others. It can be a very mixed bag but I can tell you it made a huge difference to me to get these tested and to supplement the ones I needed to. They help your thyroid to work better as well. Many need to supplement something but also be aware if you need to supplement its often for life though you may find a maintenance dose once you are optimal. Vit D particularly drops like a stone if you stop your dose! I used to have to take folate every day but now take alternate days but ideally we should repeat testing to check things are working as they should.

[Hidden]

I believe you will have much better luck seeing a naturopath! I just currently started seeing one and had very extensive blood test and urine (Dutch) tests done. Never before with my primary that extensive!!! Good luck!

[leftbehind in reply to Hidden]

Insurance won't pay a Naturalist and my income doesn't allow me that option. I wish.