Anyone tried ThyroLux supplements for Hashimotos or can recommend a different thyroid medication/ supplement

[Merlio18]

Iam looking at trying ThyroLux it seems to get good reviews but not sure if women are taking it for a supplement or whether it will actually be able to be used long term as a supplement to help control Hashimotos and keep TSH under control? It does have iodine in it so bit wary as I have felt more hypo when trying supplements in the past but it has 30 days money back so thought might be worth a try ! They also do a melatonin and estrogen balance one but the adrenal one has ashwaghanda in it which I seem to have been sensitive too in the past but they all seem to get good reviews has anyone tried and had a good experience?

I have been taking Metatvive 80mg and a 40mg daily in August bloods were 7.2 TSH so needed to take more as went hypo as I came off 1.5 grains of armour TSH was 2ish

So upped it double it to 2 x 80mg pills in am and 2x 40mg pills pm to use them up and managed to get hold of a trial of liothyronine again just took 5 mg pill

And now just done a blood test and TSH has shot down to 0.2tsh !? Only hyper symptom I feel is hot flushes really bad not being able to control my temperature over heat really easily and hairloss and peeling nails but also got low iron but other than that haven't really felt hyper but still look like a moomin all puffy in my face so thought might be adrenal connection can't figure it out?

But still don't feel well I have also swapped from depo to single pill and I have PCOS and adrenal issues so feel really puffy and hormonal looking even when my TSH is under 1 thought I might be feeling and looking better so looking into more supplements

Any ideas on good strength multi vit/ supplements for overal womens health too?

[greygoose]

If I were you, I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole! Nor anything else containing iodine. Iodine is a very bad idea when hypo, especially with Hashi's. And it certainly cannot replace your thyroid hormone replacement. Why did you come off Armour? At least with Armour you knew how much T4 and T3 you were getting. With Metavive you have no idea.

Just having a low TSH does not make you 'hyper'. You need your FT4 and FT3 tested to know if you are under or over-medicated.

[Merlio18 in reply to greygoose]

Armour was becoming to expensive for me to afford, so I tried Metatvive as it was a cheaper supplement and I managed to get some liothyronine as I pushed to be triaged bk to an endo but I just don't feel right. I only felt really well on WP but then that's stop production so now at a lost end

I feel overmedicated slightly because of the hot sweats I keep getting and a few other symptoms

TSH 0.2

T4 12.9

T3 5.9

That's Taking 3 pills of Metatvive 80mg in each pill and 1 x5mg pill of liothyronine Roma brand free from

I was going to risk the cheaper ThyroLux coz of how good people looked in the reviews and my Naturopath keeps telling me to try seagreens iodine saying I might react different to it as it's a different form so not sure as you can try and get your money bk in 30 days

I was told to try iodine years bk from a guy that reads your health from your eyes and he just kept saying your idoine deficient take iodine but when I took it just a basic one from the health store I started feeling really hypo and my hair was shedding in clumps it was horrendous so I don't want that to happen again

This is a good link on iodine by Isabel wenzt

thyroidpharmacist.com/artic...

it's so confusing trying to find a supplement that I feel stable on, has anyone tried any other herbal/ supplements/ NDT that they recommend?

[greygoose in reply to Merlio18]

Can you add the ranges for the FT4 and the FT3, please? Results without ranges are meaningless because the ranges vary from lab to lab. And a TSH on it's own doesn't mean much - especially when it's below range.

I do know about iodine, having been prescribed it by an idiot doctor when I was young and innocent - and ignorant! And, I'm pretty sure it's was the cause of all my present problems. The doctor didn't do any tests to find out if I had a thyroid problem, so I don't know if I already had Hashi's (had lots of hypo symptoms) or if the iodine caused it. But it certainly made all my symptoms worse!

What you really need is a non-loading urine iodine test to know if you're deficient. And, even if you are, there are protocols to be set up before supplementing, so it's not something anyone should attempt to self-treat for.

Unlikely any herbal supplements are going to help you. But, you should get your nutrients tested and supplement accordingly to optimise them.

NDT didn't suit me at all. I'm at my best on T3 mono-therapy. So, I can't recommend anything you can take to help.

[Noelnoel]

“upped it double it to 2 x 80mg pills in am and 2x 40mg pills pm to use them up and managed to get hold of a trial of liothyronine again just took 5 mg pill”

On that little a dose of Metavive I’d be extremely hypo

[Merlio18 in reply to Noelnoel]

I was only ever on 50/ 75 alternate days levo and 5 liothyronine to begin with and iav had Hashimotos issues for 15 years and never had a TSH of 0.2 only when I upped the liothyronine to 10 I had a really suppressed TSH and felt hyper.

I think it depends what is triggering your thyroid issues as to the dose and how much iodine your intaking ? That link is worth reading all the way till the end.

[grumpyold]

I took kelp tablets in the 1990s in the hope that they would help reduce my horrendous hair loss. I knew nothing about iodine back then.

In 1999 I found out I had Hashi's. I think I actually, ( in my ignorance ) helped cause or exacerbate my own thyroid problem.

I would be a bit wary of a naturopath who advocated seagreens or any other form of iodine.

[Merlio18 in reply to grumpyold]

thyroidpharmacist.com/artic...

This link is very informative

I don't think iodine on its own is a good supplement to take so I am avoiding the naturopaths recomendation of the seagreens

But I am gonna try the thyrolux and see if it helps it's only 150 iodine plus a lot of other good thyroid vitamins in it which is what is recommended so just depends I suppose I will find out how sensitive I am to it if I try it for a month and I am gonna take a pure selenium supplement to reduce the hydrogen peroxide build up

Going to look at iodine reduction diet protocol by

Dr. Alan Christianson, author of The Thyroid Reset Diet

too and try and only consume it in the supplement at under 150 a day as people have give good reviews and see in a couple months how I am feeling as I think a lot of people are actually contributing to there thyroid issues without even realising how much iodine they are consuming from food and products

[sammy712 in reply to Merlio18]

how did you get on ? thinking of ordering it myself.