Please recommend or share your experience how to use iodine with HYPOthyroidism (hashimoto's)

[olgadimitri]

Please recommend or share your experience how to use iodine with HYPOthyroidism (hashimoto's)

[greygoose]

If I were you, I really wouldn't use iodine with hypo - especially not Hashi's. It won't help and could make things ten times worse. If you are on thyroid hormone replacement, you will be getting iodine from that - 100 mcg levo contains about 65 mcg iodine which is recycled in the body - and your thyroid won't be using it anyway, because it isn't making hormone. You need less iodine, not more.

[olgadimitri in reply to greygoose]

Thank you Greygoose. A lot of controversial advisers on line about iodine, some sounds so promising with great relief of inflammation. I will follow your advice not to take a risk.

[greygoose in reply to olgadimitri]

You're welcome.

[tattybogle]

list of useful information here :

healthunlocked.com/thyroidu... /iodine-a-collection-of-useful-information-because-the-search-facility-on-health-unlocked-is-totally-pants

[Buddy195 Administrator]

Personally, I try to steer clear of excess iodine… & fully agree with greygoose advice

[grumpyold]

I agree with  greygoose and Buddy195 .

I began taking kelp supplements when I was 37 because my hair was falling out. I knew nothing about possible adverse effects from the iodine content. (This was in the late 1980's.)

When I was 44 I was diagnosed hypothyroid. I found out for myself that it was Hashi's.

Did I already have the thyroid problem or did I cause it myself? I'll never know, but I wish I had never taken that kelp.

It didn't stop my hair falling out and even all these years later with optimal vits and minerals and thyroid levels I am happy with, it's still falling out.

Just my experience, but if I were you, I'd give it a miss.

[olgadimitri in reply to grumpyold]

Thank you for sharing. Yes I decided not to experiment with iodine

[bikebabe]

Thats something I would like to know as well because my cardiac doctors initially suggested short spell of amiadrone which increases levels of iodine in thyroid. Im still in AFlutter after surgery and need cardioversion despite using betablockers digoxin and furosemide but my cancer meds enhance the action of amiadrone. I am running out of options.

[HealthStarDust]

There’s a lot of controversy over taking iodine in thyroid disease, some swear by it others definitely do not.

All you can do is try. And, if it appears it’s making things worse, just stop it.

The fact is, no one has all the answers when it comes to thyroid (even when they sound like they do)!

[olgadimitri in reply to HealthStarDust]

Yes you right. Must be some test, blood or urine level check up. I think it's good idea to check it first. Will ask about the iodine test in this form

[HealthStarDust in reply to olgadimitri]

The problem with blood tests, they don’t review what’s actually getting taken up by cells in the body. You may have a very high content swimming around in your blood but not getting anywhere. So, if you are going to try it, pay attention to how you feel.

[Jo5454]

Please note, i know very little about the subject, but my thyroid results had been up and down, was having ussues with iron, b12, vit d, so.was just another route to explore. I had an iodine urine test with Genova abt 7 years ago, expect they still do that test,but I did discuss with my Dr first.

Mine was very underange at 18, should've been betweenv100-200. I tried some iodine liquid, after a year it was still.only 41 and I was concerned about negative things I'd been reading about taking it.

Before taking TSH was 3.21, after a yr of iodine it was 3.81. My ft4 & ft3 had risen a bit, but rightly or wrongly decided to stop!

It gets very difficult knowing what's affecting what when working on more than one thing, doesn't it. I noticed my iron stores had remained stable during that year & folate had risen, but then again I believe that was due to my monthly b12 injections starting to make a real difference...take care.

[Regenallotment Ambassador]

I tried it and felt instantly hung over.

I do however have a drop in a salt pipe at the earliest sign of a cold (I work in a sixth form college so germs everywhere). That works well for me.

Prior to diagnosis I snacked on seaweed etc. that has stopped.

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