Medication

[Nini87]

Hello lovely people, I am just wondering about acid reflux and under active thyroid/ Hashimotos and gum health . Does anyone suffer from this and is it linked to thyroid or would it be associated with a deficiency ?

I can’t seem to tolerate any medication but I am seeing a Kinesiologist who is helping get to the route cause of my Hashimotos.

Is it silly not to be on medication?

Thank you

[SlowDragon Administrator]

Acid reflux is an incredibly common hypothyroid symptom

Being hypothyroid frequently causes low stomach acid and low vitamins

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Thousands of posts on here about low stomach acid and acid reflux

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Frequently GP will prescribe Ppi like omeprazole. PPI are for high acid and can cause vitamin deficiencies

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[SlowDragon Administrator]

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

Low vitamin levels are extremely common, especially if you have autoimmune thyroid disease (Hashimoto's) diagnosed by raised Thyroid antibodies

Have you had thyroid antibodies tested?

Ask GP to test vitamin levels

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 .

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

If in the UK

Private tests are available as NHS currently rarely tests Ft3 or thyroid antibodies or all relevant vitamins

List of private testing options

thyroiduk.org/getting-a-dia...

Medichecks Thyroid plus ultra vitamin

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Medichecks often have special offers, if order on Thursdays

Thriva Thyroid plus vitamins

thriva.co/tests/thyroid-test

Blue Horizon Thyroid Premium Gold includes vitamins

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Add results and ranges if you have any

Or come back with new post once you get results

[Nini87 in reply to SlowDragon]

Thank you so much for your reply. I had blood tests taken this week so will be interesting to see results. Thank you for all

Info

[SlowDragon Administrator in reply to Nini87]

Thousands of posts on here about low stomach acid

Put "low stomach acid" in search box ....then filter by Thyroid (column on right,)

[greygoose]

Is it silly not to be on medication?

Depends what your thyroid hormone levels are like. Do you always get a print-out of your results, with the ranges? If so, post them here and let's have a look. As Hashi's swings from hypo to 'hyper', you can have quite long periods of euthyroidism, when you don't need thyroid hormone replacement. And, of course, it does depend how much damage has already been done to your thyroid by the Hashi's.

Curious to know what your Kinesiologist is doing to find the root cause, and what difference he thinks that will make.

[Nini87 in reply to greygoose]

Thank you for your reply. I had bloods taken and a thyroid scan two days ago so I will post here when results come back. With regards to root cause , I’ve been clearing a lot of emotional issues that would have caused high stress levels .

Niamh

[greygoose in reply to Nini87]

You're welcome.