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Thyroid Meds, food and supplements-take apart from each other?

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I keep hearing conflicting info about when to take meds, supps and food. I take my Thyroid Med at about 7:30am, food about 8:30 with probiotic, B's, C, Krill Oil, Magnesium, Co-Q10 and then Iron and more Vit C about 9:30. How do others do it??

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I take T3 about 7 a.m. and take all supplements at lunch time as most say take with food. I have read that 4 hours gap between meds and supplements is preferable but cannot find link.

This is another link

mayoclinic.org/diseases-con...

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Hi Shaws-does the same apply to Natural Dessicated Thyroid as to Levo?

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I did the same with NDT as with levo. I didn't want a guessing game of whether anything was interfering with the uptake.

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Shaws, would you also recommend taking my hypertensives (perindopril & bendroflumethiazide) separately from my T3 & 4?

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I am not medically qualified but you also have to take your blood pressure into account. For instance if you have to take medication first thing, I would then take T4/T3 4 hours later, having eaten nothing for 2 hours before and after. You can also take T3/T4 at bedtime not having eaten 2 hours before. Our stomachs have to be empty.

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Thank you. I've always been very relaxed about tablet-taking (sloppy?) but now symptoms are getting worse realise I need to optimise the benefits of the medication by taking them exactly as prescribed, rather than throwing them all down in one gulp....... . I think taking T3/T4 at bedtime will make the time / food constraints more workable.

Which begs another question about blood tests: if I'm taking them at bed time and have a blood test in the morning, should i take them the night before or not? Normally as a morning tablet-taker I wouldn't take them the morning of the blood test, but is taking them the night before also going to skew results against me?

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Yes, if you decide to medicate at night miss this dose and take after blood test. Another member also has the night-time regime but takes meds after blood test and also at night as usual. If you feel this would be too much you can always half your dose.

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thank you ;-)

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Hi Shaws-thanks for your advice-I think I need to take my iron away from thyroid Meds and other supplements so not sure how to fit it all in???

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