Supplements

[Coffecake]

Will taking an actimel probiotic yogurt drink and benecol yogurt affect my blood test results

[SlowDragon Administrator]

Recommended on here that all thyroid blood tests should ideally be done as early as possible in morning and before eating or drinking anything other than water .

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

This gives highest TSH, lowest FT4 and most consistent results. (Patient to patient tip, best not mentioned to GP or phlebotomist)

[Coffecake in reply to SlowDragon]

So should I stop these a week before like my multi vitamins

[Lalatoot in reply to Coffecake]

No they are yoghurt drinks not targeted supplements.

Please also be aware that multivitamins are not the best way to supplement if that is what you take.

The problem with multivitamins is that you get a little of a lot of things in one tablet. Now, as I found to my cost, some of those things you will not be deficient in. It was iodine that was in my multivitamin and set my thyroid haywire. The things you are deficient in may not be much improved as the multivitamin tablet doesn't contain much of them and they tend to be of poor quality.

If you can it is better to get vitamin levels tested and then just take the vitamins you lack.

[Marz]

I have read you would need so many of those yogurt drinks to have a beneficial effect. Not practical surely ?

Also the Iron in a Multi-vit negates all other ingredients - sigh ! I would test B12 - Folate - Ferritin - VitD and supplement what is needed ...

[Angel_of_the_North]

If you take them in the morning before a test, probably. Otherwise not. If you take them with levo, they might impair your absorption,. Generally, they are not a very good probiotic esp if you are prone to gas as they tend to contain lot of inulin but not so many live probiotics. Benecol products are largely pointless unless you happen to like the taste

[Coffecake]

I have taken multivitamins for years but stopped them two weeks ago to hopefully get a true reading in three months