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I am really interested in whether hypothyroid people with a weight problem have had any experience of Slimpod.

I don't snack or eat junk (except occasionally) and wonder if Slimpod can help someone with an underachieve thyroid whose choices about food are already fairly healthy.

Have you tried it? Has it helped you?

Thanks.

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Never heard of it but sounds like your diet is already good?... 5 months ago you were thinking you had enough wiggle room to up your T4 has that not helped?

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DandyThyro in reply toTiggerMe

I have not been able to due to the GP always going by the TSH, which was 3 point something when I got it checked then.

Charlie-Farley profile image
Charlie-Farley in reply toDandyThyro

Hi Dandy

If he is under medicating you no amount of slimpod or anything else will help- you can’t offset and under performing metabolism. 😬

Can you share those last results again here? When medicated, most people need to be one or below, with regards to the TSH - however, really that is misleading because your thyroid hormones should be used to gauge where you are along with your symptoms (not a pituitary hormone!) and they’re not doing this, and I don’t understand why because it’s blooming obvious.

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Sparklingsunshine in reply toDandyThyro

Do you have any wriggle room to increase Levo yourself. Or say you've "lost" yours and can you have another pack to replace it and then increase your dose by 25mcg. Your surgery isnt sticking to NICE guidelines.

Some patients have increased their dose, told the GP they feel so much better and got an increase that way.

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TiggerMeAmbassador in reply toDandyThyro

At 3.? you need an increase!! Or a change of GP

How about a written complaint to your surgery backed up by NICE guidelines and say you have had advice from Thyroid UK urging you to increase your T4

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DandyThyro in reply toTiggerMe

Thanks Eyesore! I'll make another approach soon and get another test, asking for T3 and T4 as well. It's good to have the backing of Thyroid UK should I write to the surgery manager. I know my issue is complicated so will approach them bearing all of this in mind in the hope that the senior GP, who seems to be quite knowledgeable about a lot of things, will take me on board.

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TiggerMeAmbassador in reply toDandyThyro

In the past I have printed off various NICE guideline instructions that they are supposed to follow and added a covering letter to clearly point out how I expect to be treated... so far so good 🙃

I think it is much harder for them to ignore when in writing and I'm sure has to be discussed at practice meetings, so hopefully they all up their game and sing from the same guidelines

Also it means you don't have the face to face showdown which is often hard not to burst into tears or become a jibbering idiot... they then label you with 'health anxiety' 😠 or they just gas light and belittle your findings as they haven't actually read up on your condition and don't want to lose face 😳

You aren't at all complicated, you are very clearly under medicated using their guidelines

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Steni in reply toDandyThyro

Why not increase it yourself as the OP suggested

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DandyThyro in reply toSteni

I have heart issues that can be exacerbated by too much T4 or T3, and so am very cautious and would prefer monitoring.

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Steni in reply toDandyThyro

fair enough -

humanbean profile image
humanbean

I've never used it. But from the brief bit of reading I did it seems to be CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) and it also mentions NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming).

CBT allegedly helps some people to change their behaviour.

NLP is considered to be a pseudoscience.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogni...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro...

I wonder how much people have to pay after the first 10 days free, and how many sessions of the "treatment" they have to pay for in advance.

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DandyThyro in reply tohumanbean

It works out at £99 for life, if you pay for it after the 10 days free trial.

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Sparklingsunshine in reply toDandyThyro

Before you part with hard earned cash I would query whether you need it. I imagine there are those who would maybe benefit from a CBT approach to dieting, emotional eaters, those who use food to suppress difficult emotions, those with compulsive or disordered eating patterns.

However you have a medical cause for your weight, not a psychological one. You are hypothyroid and undermedicated, and no amount of CBT will change that. And if you buy it and still dont lose weight then you are just going to feel even worse.

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DandyThyro in reply toSparklingsunshine

You're so right.

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greygoose

I've never heard of it, either, but I very much doubt it would help because hypo weight is not due to over-eating or lack of exercise. In fact, low-calorie diets and over-exercising can make things worse.

The weight-gain is due to low metabolism and - more than likely - water-retention rather than fat. So, no amount of dieting or exercising is going to get rid of it. But, as you need calories to convert T4 into T3, the active hormone, you could make yourself more hypo and therefore put on more weight.

Going by what humanbean has said above, it's highly unlikely that this will help. But it could make you feel worse when you fail to lose weight with it and get labled a cheat or a failure - nobody understands hypo weight-gain except another hypo. Certainly not the medical profession! So, if I were you, I'd stay well clear and consentrate on optimising your thyroid hormone and nutritional levels. :)

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DandyThyro in reply togreygoose

Well, thank you. I am seeking a magic bullet at this point as I can't get the doctors to help me with my thyroid. I have a complicated health history, probably mostly if not all due to under-medicated hypothyroidism, and they just throw their hands up and say the TSH is 'within range' (you don't need to tell me how ignorant that is, but that's all I've ever got for at least 5 years). I have been dieting for 2 years most recently and haven't lost a pound in the last year. If I stop dieting I will put all the weight I have lost back on, in a matter of weeks. I will go back to the thyroid, as my diet is well nigh perfect. I know there is more that I can try, I suppose. I feel so alone with it all, to be honest.

I still hope someone will come on here and say that it worked wonders on their brain, and then their weight. But I secretly know you're right, which is why I asked before even bothering with the free trial.

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greygoose in reply toDandyThyro

Eating more worked wonders for me.

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DandyThyro in reply togreygoose

Oh. Interesting. More generally or more of particular types of food? I have upped my protein recently. Miracles have yet to transpire. 😀

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greygoose in reply toDandyThyro

More generally.

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DandyThyro in reply togreygoose

Thank you!

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greygoose in reply toDandyThyro

You're welcome. :)

Charlie-Farley profile image
Charlie-Farley

Oh Dandy 😱

They are treating you terribly- if you know they are under medicating you it’s time to either gather a dossier of evidence and go head to to head - but submit evidence about a week before so they have no excuse OR change doctors and try to get some intel before jumping.

I have written posts on getting to a therapeutic dose and I mention a fair bit of why doctors don’t ‘get it’ in my bio. Dr Weston Child’s videos (YouTube) are pretty good but is still a bit cautious about completely rubbishing TSH probably because if he did other clinicians ears would close immediately. there are two posts this weekend that have had The videos on I would hunt them out as the conversations are worth reading too.

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DandyThyro in reply toCharlie-Farley

Thanks Charlie-Farley, I've never been attracted to Weston Child but will have a more thorough look.

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suggest you get yourself a FULL thyroid and vitamin testing

You are under medicated if TSH is over 2

Most people when adequately treated will have TSH around or below 1

Recommended that all thyroid blood tests early morning, ideally just before 9am, only drink water between waking and test and last dose levothyroxine 24 hours before test

is your hypothyroidism autoimmune?

What vitamin supplements are you taking

Testing options and includes money off codes for private testing

thyroiduk.org/testing/

Medichecks Thyroid plus antibodies and vitamins

medichecks.com/products/adv...

Blue Horizon Thyroid Premium Gold includes antibodies, cortisol and vitamins

bluehorizonbloodtests.co.uk...

Only do private testing early Monday or Tuesday morning.

Link about thyroid blood tests

thyroiduk.org/testing/thyro...

Link about Hashimoto’s

thyroiduk.org/hypothyroid-b...

Symptoms of hypothyroidism

thyroiduk.org/signs-and-sym...

Tips on how to do DIY finger prick test

support.medichecks.com/hc/e...

Medichecks and BH also offer private blood draw at clinic near you, or private nurse to your own home…..for an extra fee

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DandyThyro in reply toSlowDragon

Thank you. Yes, on reflection, I really am going to have to bite the bullet and get lots of tests done, keep records, and try to negotiate better treatment from my well-meaning but largely unavailable and often thyroid-ignorant doctors.

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Batty1

I would not recommend talking to your doctor about weight gain from hypothyroidism especially if your looking for a medication increase … you will be disappointed even though your complaint is a valid one.

Rosequartz123 profile image
Rosequartz123

I’ve got the Slimpod Gold. It didn’t help me but that was before diagnosis. I might give it another try. Nothing to lose really cause I’ve already forked put the cash. I once used hypnosis snd that helped short term.

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