Hope you are all keeping safe and well 🙂. I posted about 3 months ago after I’d had my first Ultravit blood test with Medichecks. I took a lot of info on board and started supplements to try and balance things out and get my levels a lot healthier. I’ve attached a photo of all my results so far, I hope it comes through...
So at the moment I’m on 100mcg of Levothyroxine. I take the following supplements:
BetterYou Vitamin D & K2 spray
Thorne Basic B
Nature’s Best NAC
Vitabay magnesium malate
Bio kult probiotic
And I’ve just started today with Viridian selenium.
I’m doing all I can to try and optimise my health to hopefully conceive.
Just wondering what you all think? Anything need improving still? Any advice would be gratefully received.
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Your FT3 still needs improving. That's still rather low. You don't convert very well, do you.
And, I would want my nutrients higher than those - your ferritin has actually gone down. I think I'd be taking a separate sublingual B12, as well as the B complex.
Hi Greygoose, thanks for getting back to me. No I don’t think I am converting well, think my T3 is only something like 30% through the range. Is my only option to add it now would you think?
I was surprised that my vitamins weren’t higher since I’d been supplementing so might have to increase them or add as you say, I’ll look into that B12. Not sure why my ferritin went down either, any tips for getting that up?
Thank you again, I rely so much on this group now it’s helped me immensely so far.
I think adding T3 is your only option, yes. I don't think it's possible to improve conversion that much, even if you optimise your nutrients and everything else. And, it would take so much time.
They say the best way to raise your ferritin is to eat liver once a week, or liver pâté or black pudding, if you can do any of those things.
nice spreadsheet . i wish everyone would post their results like that
possibly shows a nice example of why Gp's shouldn't freak out about low TSH ,as when dose was put back down to 50 from 75 because of the 0.07 , the next TSH has gone back up to over 20. And the later results clearly show you needed to end up on more like 100 ...... and i find it hard to believe that 50 is enough for anyone to be honest.
Unless you asked for a reduction because you had symptoms of overmedication......but i doubt that's what happened.
I'd give it some more time for the selenium to have an effect, and tweak vits before thinking about T3.
Thank you for getting back to me. I know I find I can see where I am with a table 😂.
The GP absolutely had a fit when he saw my TSH at 0.07 but I knew it was more than likely a swing.
Yes I’m going to try and increase my vitamin D supplement to a stronger dose and add a sublingual B12 as Greygoose mentions above to try and improve them.
Do you have any idea how long it will take for the selenium to have its full effect once I start taking them? I’ll retest again then and see where I am.
Hashimoto's affects the gut and leads to low stomach acid and then low vitamin levels
Low vitamin levels affect Thyroid hormone working
Poor gut function can lead leaky gut (literally holes in gut wall) this can cause food intolerances. Most common by far is gluten. Dairy is second most common.
According to Izabella Wentz the Thyroid Pharmacist approx 5% with Hashimoto's are coeliac, but over 80% find gluten free diet helps, sometimes significantly. Either due to direct gluten intolerance (no test available) or due to leaky gut and gluten causing molecular mimicry (see Amy Myers link)
Changing to a strictly gluten free diet may help reduce symptoms, help gut heal and slowly lower TPO antibodies
While still eating high gluten diet ask GP for coeliac blood test first or buy test online for under £20, just to rule it out first
The predominance of Hashimoto thyroiditis represents an interesting finding, since it has been indirectly confirmed by an Italian study, showing that autoimmune thyroid disease is a risk factor for the evolution towards NCGS in a group of patients with minimal duodenal inflammation. On these bases, an autoimmune stigma in NCGS is strongly supported
In summary, whereas it is not yet clear whether a gluten free diet can prevent autoimmune diseases, it is worth mentioning that HT patients with or without CD benefit from a diet low in gluten as far as the progression and the potential disease complications are concerned
Despite the fact that 5-10% of patients have Celiac disease, in my experience and in the experience of many other physicians, at least 80% + of patients with Hashimoto's who go gluten-free notice a reduction in their symptoms almost immediately.
Unfortunately not I did try but I wasn’t strict with the gluten free which I know is pointless 😕. I may revisit it to see if it does help with my nutrient/vitamin absorption.
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