Cocunut oil side effects! Pls reply soon 🙏

Kindly reply 🙏I am daily taking Cocunut oil for past 5 days for hypothyroid half an hour after taking eltroxin … One tablespoon Daily on empty stomach I took for 5 days …. But am getting sooooo( even 10hrs if I sleep too can't get up fresh, brain fog, heart Palpitations, feeling dizziness, nauseous, severe headache, diarrhea and anxious feeling) too,, and today got nearly dark grey stool too.. Is this al bcos of this?? Kindly reply 🙏I stopped taking it today.. When wil the effects go 😔can't tolerate it

[Cooper27]

I've not really heard of coconut oil as a treatment for the thyroid before, but I can't imagine adding a tbsp a day would cause your symptoms. Have you made any other changes at the same time as bringing in the coconut oil?

[Hidden in reply to Cooper27]

No... Other than Cocunut oil I didnt do anything new 😔😔😔😔

[SlowDragon Administrator]

Shouldn't have anything other than water for at least an hour after taking Levothyroxine

[Hidden in reply to SlowDragon]

Okk

[greygoose]

I agree with SlowDragon. The oil could be affecting the absorption of your levo.

[Hidden in reply to greygoose]

Yaa i agree but these symptoms i mentioned could it be due to less absorbtion of eltroxin huh??

[greygoose in reply to Hidden]

Absolutely, yes.

[SlowDragon Administrator in reply to Hidden]

Get full Thyroid and vitamin testing 6-8 weeks after you have stopped taking this coconut oil

For full Thyroid evaluation you need TSH, FT4 and FT3 plus both TPO and TG thyroid antibodies tested. Also important to test vitamin D, folate, ferritin and B12

Low vitamin levels are extremely common, especially if Thyroid antibodies are raised

Recommended on here that all thyroid blood tests should ideally be done as early as possible in morning and fasting. This gives highest TSH, lowest FT4 and most consistent results. (Patient to patient tip, best not mentioned to GP or phlebotomist)

Last Levothyroxine dose should be 24 hours prior to test, (taking delayed dose immediately after blood draw).

[Angel_of_the_North]

You should NOT take/eat anything within an hour of taking your meds or you will stop them being absorbed. I suspect that you are not digesting fat very well. Why on earth are you eating it on its own? It's not a supplement; it's a food. If you want to use coconut oil, use for cooking, or in coffee (as for butter coffee) and build up the amount gradually, especially if you have been eating a low fat diet previously. You might find it useful to take a lipase or ox bile supplement with fatty meals.

[Hidden in reply to Angel_of_the_North]

Thanks mam for replying.yes mam u r right, usually I don't take much fats earlier...today I stopped taking Cocunut oil,nothing to worry na mam bcos I am hypochondriac... Cocunut oil effects wil it go immediately today since I stopped it or wil take days for it to subsidize mam, kindly reply

[Angel_of_the_North in reply to Hidden]

No idea. I've never had any adverse effects from adding coconut oil to food. You need fat to make hormones, but if you don't eat any your body forgets how to digest it and you end up with gall bladder problems

[Hidden in reply to Angel_of_the_North]

Hmmm

[Angel_of_the_North in reply to Hidden]

Read the references at the end of this article: atkins.com/how-it-works/lib...

[Hidden in reply to Angel_of_the_North]

I eat fatty foods often but wil take so much time to digest it

[Angel_of_the_North in reply to Hidden]

Try a lipase supplement then

[Hidden in reply to Angel_of_the_North]

Thank you