Experiences with

Potassium iodide

Hello, all! Has anyone else experienced stabbing pelvic pain and muscle spasms in upper legs while on synthroid? For background, I had my thyroid removed a year ago for cancer and then had radioactive iodine. I’m currently on 150 mcg for synthroid and it’s working fine. But I went to the emergency

My husband and I felt the same way for many years until we were diagnosed with vitamin deficiency not by a doctor but a vegetarian nurse practitioner she saved our lives. Doctors tell people to cut back or stop eating red meat, dairy and eggs which rich in B 12 and eat plenty of fruits a veggies and

I'm so grateful for stumbling across this board and for people giving up their time to advise. I'll try to keep it brief but a bit of background is important... Diagnosed with Graves Disease 2003 which led to me deciding on radioactive iodine treatment in 2006. No medication until I noticed I was putting

I just got my results back from Medichecks and I want some guidance in the potential implication of my results before I see my GP. I am on 100mg of levothroxine. I was previously on 125mg but moved onto super healthy diet as had shingles twice in 3.5 weeks in December. The doctor thought there was a

Hi everyone today had my T3/T4/ done I checked and it’s at TSH- 0.01 as you can see It just keeps going down. Why is it the way it is ? I just don’t understand this I’m on 125- Levothyroxine 1x a night. I see him tomorrow morning at times my heart will race and lows down feeling cold my hair is not

Diagnosed with overactive in June 16, radioactive iodine Dec 16, levothyroxine from Jan 17...still feel awful yet apparently my 125mgs have made my levels “normal”.

so i just got the results from my medichecks blood tests.. as previously posted i currently have symptoms of hypothyroid (having had RAI back in 2004 - low heart rate, sensitive to cold, tired, foggy etc etc apparently it's not my thyroid as my tests are all normal (see below) - or should i still see

hi- i had graves disease for 5 years, had RAI in 2017 and after 2 months went HYPO.. took 125mg eltroxin and stablised to normal... recent bloods show I am hyper again.. TSH .18 T4 24.6 ... my feet are very painful as though i broke bones and my hands are numb in the night time, have upset tummy most

I finally got a TSI antibodies test after getting the RAI treatment 8 years ago. I was hyperthyroid and my endo thought it was Graves. I dont believe I was ever given this test nor had a scan of my thyroid. I had stayed hyper until 3 years ago and then became “normal” for a year. 1 later (2 years ago

Hello everyone, I'm new to this forum and reading through some of the posts here I have found new hope of one day maybe feeling better. So many of you are incredibly knowledgeable on the subject and kind enough to share your knowledge with fellow sufferers. Thank you! As a single mother of a 16 months

Diagnosed Aneamic 13 weeks ago at 120 then went to 123 nit Anaemic Ferratin level at 12 so another 8 week course of ferratin Sulphate yuk. Now at 118 and Ferratin at 9 can someone explain why it went up a little now went backwards, I feel absolutely drained no energy but got a disabled husband to look

Hello, can you please help my wife to adjust her medication. I’m writing for her as she doesn’t speak English. I have an account myself as el_escogido but I opened this account for her to avoid confusion. Female, 67 years old, diagnosed Hashimoto first 1998, stopped treatment 2000, restarted treatment

Hello, can you please help me, After taking a break of 5 weeks with my thyroid medication, I’m starting restoring. I had a stroke, as I was on only T3 the doctors who couldn’t detect TSH, panic and ask me to interrupt the taking of any Thyroid medication, though T3 wasn’t the reason for the stroke

Yet another fragment of information about the complex relationship between iodine (and iodine compounds) and hypothyroidism. [i] [/i] [i]Chemosphere. 2018 May 3;206:320-329. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.05.015. [Epub ahead of print][/i] [i]Nitric oxide is involved in the hypothyroidism with significant

feels like a charley-horse, then keeps on just like after a charley-horse, spasm, then BURN-BURN-BURN and itching. They rinse, then give me cool wet cloth, I ask to rinse again, again, again, then wet cloth. I talked by phone, sent a letter, talked to Nurse, talked to Doctor. I cannot stand another

HI! Am new here... I've been on 1 grain Nature Throid and 50 mcg of compounded cytomel for about three months. I know for a fact I respond terribly (instant weight gain, fibro pain, etc...) right away when I up the NT or take ANY T4 at all (only good thing is that my eyebrows start growing in, but not

Hi I’ve recently been diagnosed with Graves Disease and I feel like my life is over. Although nausea doesn’t seem to be a common symptom, it’s the worse for me. It’s stopped me from working, although it’s gotten better, I feel it would still prevent me from working the best I can. Can people still work

Iodine is found in foods, although it's also available in supplement form (potassium iodide or sodium iodide) Read this article to learn more about iodine’s uses and health benefits, as well as foods rich in this mineral to help you prevent effects triggered by a low-iodine diet By Dr Joe Mercola. https

I was diagnosed with overactive thyroid back in 2004, was treated with radioactive Iodine which seems to have killed my thyroid and have never felt well since. Weight gain, dry hair and skin, muscle weakness, muscle spasms and extreme fatigue, I am on 125mg levo. I also self medicate with 2000ui Vit

My son lives in Abu Dhabi UAE, and has been 100% gluten free for four years. Family members' blood tests were negative for coeliac, but were false negatives. My grandmother had thyroid disease; my sister is hypo, I had Graves, RAI and now hypo. I had to add T3 in 2016 as I wasn't converting and was very