Graves disease and soy
Common Questions and Answers about Graves disease and soy
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- If you have an autoimune thyroid disease like Hashimoto or Graves disease, avoid soy when possible. Non-fermented (in USA) is the worst for you.
In Autoimmune thyroid , the thyroid is inflamed from the antibodies and you are at risk for more body inflammation in other areas. The thyroid level of inflammation gets re-disturbed with other hormone imbalances as it can no longer self adjust. The hormone output and free T levels are now regulated by the hormone replacement meds.
Geez, I'd be very sick if I had soy like I supposedly should because Im a A blood type, I have a soy allergy!! hahah....so blood type diets probably arent best for me!!!
I've been reading on a thyroid group on Facebook that Graves' often goes along with gluten intolerance. I have a lot of digestive issues (not sure if I have Graves' but I am borderline hyperthyroid and have most symptoms) so I'm going to try going gluten-free for a couple weeks to see if I feel better.
Try taking 1,000 IU of Vitamin D a day and 400 mg of Magnesium Glycinate or Taurate twice a day, take vitamins and minerals four hours after or before Armour, always take Armour 1 hour before food, and no Soy, also make sure to read the label on the vitamins and don't by a brand with soy as an ingredient with any Vitamins. The Vitamin D and Magnesium will help with muscle issues.
In August she stopped eating soy products (she was having at least 2 servings a day) and traded that out for more traditional proteins (meat, fish) and cow's milk. I have been doing some reading on supplement-induced hyperthyroidism and see that this is touched on in most "cause" lists. I also have read that soy products do somewhat inhibit the absorption of iodine in the body.
Anyway I have Severe Graves Thyroid Eye Disease Hyper ahd hypothyrpidism and lastly Thyrotoxic Myopathy. I have always been in relatively good health although I never ate or slept and was constantly on the go. As an Event manager I always had something to plan so I went at it 500000 miles an hour. Now though I am using a walking stick, my hair has fallen out, I have lost my face to TED and I feel faint lethargic and my legs buzz all night long.
You need a second opinion.
Based on what you describe, you have autoimmune thyroid disease with markers for Graves' (TSI) and the other common antibodies (TPO and Tg) that are usually associated with hashimoto's. Graves' and Hashi should be considered as entities on two ends of a spectrum, not two completely different diseases.
This may cause fluctuating thyroid function to hypo and hyper and back but this is not common.
My mother was diagnosed in her early 40s with graves disease and her thyroid was removed, around the same time she was diagnosed with stage 3-4 colon cancer. I'm aware there are connections between autoimmune diseases and thyroid and intestinal diseases/conditions. As I'm getting older I'm noticing I'm following in the same physiological footsteps my mother did before she was diagnosed.
I have graves disease, but was in remission. Then I had cancer and chemotherapy. My TSH level is hyper again and my other tests normal. The doctors won't say if chemo can activate your graves disease. They do say that a physical or emotional change to my body can trigger it. My thoughts, Cancer and chemotherapy are big time physical and emotional changes.
19 year old son was getting hives mainly at night. Diagnosed with Graves disease a couple weeks ago and on meds now. is this normal with graves?
They have removed me off of my medicine one time to see if my Graves disease had went into remission and within two months it came back with TSH levels of 0.003...basically non-existant TSH levels. They put me back on my 10mg Methmazole and within 3 weeks my levels were normal. That is pretty much a health summary of my graves disease for the past five-six years lol.
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