Synthroid and iodine supplements
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5mg of Synthroid daily, is it safe for me to take the supplements and reduce the Synthroid as l am trying to find away of reducing the effects of taking these drugs, not only can l not lose weight l also keep getting really painful mouth and tongue ulcers which research has suggested can be a side effect of thyroid problems.
ve been regularly supplementing with iodine whereas before supplements and only on synthroid, my temperature was jumping up and down, but consistently trending lower.
Part of me is wondering if it's the thyroid medication finally kicking in and not due to the iodine. Did any of you get worse while on synthroid for the first 2-3 weeks? I could understand not getting better, but is it normal to feel worse? And would iodine have that quick of an effect on thyroid issues?
Thanks!
But I think it was probably a mistake to try to eat more iodine-rich foods AND use supplements - I now realise one or the other would have been sufficient and I'm going to lay off the supplements from now on. I think I just went into panic mode when I got the diagnosis.
So, now's my chance...I'm off the Synthroid -cold turkey...(I'm making a voodoo doll of my endo :0 ! -These swings back and forth are going to make me nuts!...Ah well,I'm pretty sure I was being over-medicated anyway)...So...If I can stimulate my thyroid to kick into gear before my Endo gets any ideas of putting me back on the Synthroid (I'm post-thyroiditis), maybe I won't need it? I'm taking kelp supplements and eat seafood regularly...
I think I've asked this before and I can't find the answer anywhere. When you have no thyroid is okay to have iodine? I'm having lots of hairloss due to the synthroid and I've been looking around online at options as far as supplements go. My doc told me to take Evening Primrose Oil which I do. But, I saw on a website that said if you have hairloss due to thyroid issues you should include iodine in your diet in the form of sea salt. I'm confused.
This advice is probably useless, because once you've been on synthroid for a significant amount of time the thyroid dies and it can't be reawakened. Of course, only a doctor can tell you if this has happened after running tests, but the natural methods of dealing with thyroid problems generally have no relevance once a person chooses to go the synthetic route. And why avoid soy? Good source of protein.
It is true that severe iodine deficiency can cause hypothyroidism. But iodine deficiency is rare in the United States and other developed countries since the addition of iodine to salt (iodized salt) and other foods. If iodine deficiency is not the cause of hypothyroidism, then iodine supplements provide no benefit. Hypothyroidism is safely and effectively treated with the synthetic thyroid hormone levothyroxine. Generally, there's no hypothyroidism diet.
FYI: If you have no thyroid, taking both T4 and T3 is better than just T4 like Synthroid.
Most of the converting from T4 hormone to the cell consumable T3 hormone is done in the thyroid gland itself. Some conversion is done in other parts of the body. No thyroid- hard to convert - hard to feel optimal.
There's a thread here on to iodine or not to iodine. Typically, it depends on why your thyroid is off -- if it's dead completely, it's too late for iodine (which is what the kelp has in it that helps the thyroid). If it's hyperthyroid, iodine is usually not recommended. And it probably isn't recommended if the problem is an autoimmune disorder, such as Hashimoto's. But there's controversy here.
No gimel, I was never diagnosed with Hashi's. Iodine was included in the list of supplements that he starts all of his suspected hypo patients on. I'm taking vit d, magnesium, selenium fish oil, vit c, iron, biotin. He felt that iodine was the most important of all of the aforementioned supplements, and I've been on it since the beginning of July.
He mentioned the 24-hour urine test, and offered it to me, but I wasn't interested.
All thyroid meds are made of iodide or iodine (I can't remember which) and are converted into iodine. That's what the T4 and T3 mean, it's how much iodide/iodine are in them.
Normal medicine prohibits iodine supplements on top of Synthroid because too much iodine can contribute to thyroid cancer. What are your thoughts on this?
I got post partum thyroiditis about 4 years ago, they did radioactive iodine to kill it. I have been on synthroid ever since and I am currently taking 200mcg per day. I went to the doctor for just some routine blood work and my tsh came back at 12.8 and my t4 at 0.78. He called me back to the office and felt of my thyroid and agreed that it was enlarged and he wanted to do another Ultrasound. The tech who did my ultrasound couldnt tell me much but she kept asking if I had problems swallowing.
I know there is a lot of iodine in synthroid, and obviously in the radio iodine treatment as well, can excess iodine cause this problem? Is there any disease I could have, even though I no longer have a thyroid that could be causing these problems? Help Please!!!! My doctor told me to use google scholar for ideas, he had no ideas!!!
This is a common misinterpretation -- a low uptake does NOT mean hypothyroidism, it only means the thyroid is not interested in taking up iodine -- in hyper patients, this is usually due to a transient thyroiditis, less likely it would be due to iodine contamination (diet, supplements, other recent x-rays w/ iodine) causing falsely low uptakes. So you likely have thyroiditis that should improve on its own w/i 6-12 weeks.
Has anyone that is Hypothyroid had success with iodine supplements. I read pro's and con's but I am frustated and willing to do a little experiment.
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