What is the best way to come off anti-thyroid drugs and chemical hormone replacement?
Red P asked:
Currently on 100mg L-thyroxine + 3 antithyroid pills per day. I am not sure about my doctor’s advice and would be interested in hearing about people’s experience.
Currently on 100mg L-thyroxine + 3 antithyroid pills per day. I am not sure about my doctor’s advice and would be interested in hearing about people’s experience.
11 June 2009, 8:56 am
Your thyroid is not something to mess with. If you do not feel confident with you general practitioner get a referral to an endocrinologist - they look at more than just your hormone readings when they prescribe medications. If you start reading up on thyroid, you would not mess with leaving yourself over or under active - it has some very serious consequences.
12 June 2009, 12:00 am
These ‘chemicals’ are replacing or regulating other chemicals that the collective chemicals that make up your body are not producing in the right quantities to sustain your healthy existence.
Your choice as to whether you stop but I’d be fascinated to know why and what alternatives you have planned.
The BEST way to come off them is to experience a miracle so that your own body does the job of producing its own chemicals in the right proportions. Until then, it does seem that a healthy, sustainable life is best served by continuing to take the oral alternatives.
14 June 2009, 2:29 pm
HRT can cause problems to come off but go on to ZIPVIT wesite and have a look at Red Clover and Black Cohosh. I have a history of cancer in the family and was recommended these products by my doctor. As for Thyroid medication, that is another story. I think you need to speak to your GP about both but perhaps suggest the alternative HRT treatment!! Good luck
15 June 2009, 12:46 am
I’m sorry, I too would like to switch to a more natural way of treating my hypothyroidism, but taking synthroid or what you take is the best way to ensure that you are taking the correct amount everyday and at the same time, to ensure that your levels don’t fluctuate…. If you rely only on food, are you going to eat the foods that give you iode at the same time every day…and I don’t think you will like to eat all the foods that provide iode…mainly algues (this is the french name, I’m not sure what it’s called in English…Sea weed?) would you eat this every day?
Don’t mess with this, I’ve had this since I was 2 years old or earlier, but was diagnosed at 2. I’m now 40 and, I’ve stopped my medication once for about 2 months, and I saw what it did to me…at first you don’t notice any changes, but the lethargic fatigue slowly sets in, and all your body functions and organs are slowing and getting less efficient, you feel it as a whole that your health is deterioring….
17 June 2009, 5:47 pm
i 2 am hypo, i had my surgery in 97, had a goiter 2.. so i have only ten percent of my thyroid left, i take 150 mcg of levothyroxine and i also wish i didnt have 2 take this pill every day for the rest of my life. its funny u asked bcause i asked my doctor what would happen if i didnt take my meds anymore, and he said ppl think dat having a thyroid disorder is nothing they are wrong its a very serious condition if not treated, he said i could die from this if i stopped taking my meds.. he said slowly but surerly i would die.. so i hope u take this seriously, take care..