Problems with Thyroid Medications
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From: Joseph on 28 Jun 2008 10:17 I've never posted here before; so hello everyone. I'm having a tough time, and really need some help. First, I've been diagnosed with celiac disease for over a decade. Just got diagnosed with Hashimoto's a couple of months ago. I've tried dessicated Thyroid (I'm in Canada), synthroid 25mcgs, synthroid 50mcgs (because it has no colour) which I was breaking into quarters. All of these medications have given me digestive problems - belching, burning, heartburn. So, I just started a compounded prescription this morning where the Compound Pharmacist mixed the pure drug from the synthroid w/microcrystalline cellulose in gelatin capsules. Well, I'm getting the same digestive discomfort. I'm scared I won't be able to treat my Hashimoto's at this rate. Has anyone else had similar problems? Or does anyone have an answer to this? Thank you.
From: Alan B. Mac Farlane on 29 Jun 2008 09:30 in article bKr9k.767$7%6.514(a)edtnps82, Joseph at jlmacdougall(a)eastlink.ca wrote on 6/28/08 7:17 AM: > All of > these medications have given me digestive problems - belching, burning, > heartburn Hi Joseph. I have the same problem with my gastric system getting used to thyroid preparations ... I have no thyroid gland (surgery 1976) from malignant and metastatic papillary follicular sarcoma. So I have to take synthyroid every day to live ... or I start to die and have NDEs when it gets real bad. Every time I got on or got on the synthyroid ... a month of digestive problems. What seems to be happening is that my flora and fauna bugs in the digestive system, die off and a few are left (survival of the species and individual variation) to propagate and take over going on the drug. Of course this happens again going off the drug for a few months as required by medical direction for cancer treatment such as an I-131 nuc med scan. I stuck it out ... had to ... no other way around it for me. I take a lot of yogurt in my diet ... 5 fruit smoothies with granola/nut stuff in it are a favorite of mine. As for treating Hashi's ... well there are lots of scientific trees to bark up and get it done. There are people who USED to be Hashimotting along in their life for a few years ... and now the Hashimoto is not longer presenting clinically ... they are perhaps cured. Time always tells. See what is going on with people who have fixed things so they go away and you do not have to take drugs anymore ... as you are healthy. Right now you are not healthy ... and have the learn what is going on with the Defense Structure in making this up for you ... and how to make it go away. I would like to suggest that you look into traditional 5 element accupuncture, moving the frozen emotion locked in the muscle memory of the autonomic nervous system ... so as to get the bitter salty tears out of the brain pain. It is a simple comfortable process that hurts like hell ... lots of tears and snot if you are doing it right. All disease has to come out of the body ... as you were not born with this as a constitutional issue like you were a Down's child for example. This disease came into you ... and it can come out of you. So ... if you want to get better there are things you must do to get better, if you do not do them, you will not get better sorry to say. If you live in L.A. and THINK you are in N.Y.C. and WANT to go to Chi-town you are going to have a very hard time getting where you want to go ... just on your own insistence. Hope this is a help ... sumbuddie wear blind sea :)
From: amanita on 29 Jun 2008 11:31 Joseph wrote: > I've never posted here before; so hello everyone. I'm having a tough time, > and really need some help. First, I've been diagnosed with celiac disease > for over a decade. Just got diagnosed with Hashimoto's a couple of months > ago. > > I've tried dessicated Thyroid (I'm in Canada), synthroid 25mcgs, synthroid > 50mcgs (because it has no colour) which I was breaking into quarters. All of > these medications have given me digestive problems - belching, burning, > heartburn. So, I just started a compounded prescription this morning where > the Compound Pharmacist mixed the pure drug from the synthroid > w/microcrystalline cellulose in gelatin capsules. Well, I'm getting the same > digestive discomfort. > > I'm scared I won't be able to treat my Hashimoto's at this rate. Has anyone > else had similar problems? Or does anyone have an answer to this? Thank you. I was diagnosed with IBS soon after starting thyroid meds. My digestive system was never a problem before! I think many thyroid patients have ongoing problems with digestion. Food intolerances seem to develop where none existed before. Impaired carbohydrate metabolism seems to be one of the main issues, so cutting down as much as possible on sugars and starches can help. As Alan said, gut flora imbalance could be the root problem. Eating lots of yogurt can help to get, and keep, the gut flora under control. Look for the ones with the most probiotics in, and preferably plain yogurt with no added sugars or starches (thickening agents). You may have an underlying infection that developed whilst your body was not getting enough thyroid hormone. If the problem doesn't improve or gets worse, a course of antibiotics may be the only way. Helicobacter Pylori is a particularly stubborn infection that invades a weakened immune system and really needs antibiotics to zap it. One thing you definitely should not do is to stop taking the thyroid meds. This will just leave your system wide open for any existing infection to rapidly get worse.
From: Alan B. Mac Farlane on 29 Jun 2008 21:14 in article aVN9k.136642$8k.107622(a)newsfe18.ams2, amanita at tiredofspam(a)ntlworld.com wrote on 6/29/08 8:31 AM: > As Alan said, gut flora imbalance could be the root problem. I think the root problem is taking crank case oil for tummy absorption. The stuff that REALLY WORKS ... is 2 double ought capsules of medical marijuana ... about 4 grams of bud in powder form ready to ingest. It really calms things down from all that speed in the gut twisting things up ... and every morning is a breeze doing the daily constitutional. Truth be told, eat three times a day ... go to the loo three times a day ... the curse of a good diet. But the crank case speed we are eating ... that is the shits mon !!! It keeps me alive and it is best game in town ... so I play it ... but do it my way. To be is to do ... socrates To do is to be ... de cartes. do be do be do ... sinatra sumbuddie has to make up a happy day :)
From: Joseph on 1 Jul 2008 13:40
Dear Alan B. Mac Farlane - I'd like to apologize for replying to you personally : P re: Problems with Thyroid Medications. I didn't mean to do that; but I meant to reply to this newsgroup. So, please ignore. I'm learning how to do this stuff, and obviously doing a poor job. I'll repost what I said to you. Again, I apologize. (Isn't brain fog a problem w/thyroid? lol) "Ooh, sorry for not replying sooner. See I kinda did the whole thing wrong - my name actually isn't Joseph. I'm female and using someone named Joseph's computer. : ) Please call me dee. Anyway, in a moment of panic I thought I had deleted my whole post and didn't check back again. So, since you've taken the time to try to help me (and my post is obviously still here somewhere ; ) ), I have to say thank you. I definitely know my flora is out of whack - with the celiac, and all. I have developed more intolerances (besides gluten) in the last year, and it's when I became even more sick, and I finally asked for the thyroid panel. I've been trying the kefir, and the probiotics (the kefir just about burns my stomach out), so I take breaks from it. I've been doing some investigating, and apparently there's a connection between not tolerating the meds and low iron. I've had low ferritin most of my life. Zero when I was first diagnosed w/celiac, all the way up to a whopping 21 now. Low RBC, too. So, I'm anemic - which is a problem with getting my thyroid normalized, apparently. Oh gosh, keep taking the medication? I know I have to do something - but I'm telling you, it's hurts, and I feel worse on the medication. The only medication I felt a bit of good from (my brain suddenly felt just a bit clearer for awhile!) was the natural, dessicated thyroid, so I may try that again. I just hope I don't burn a hole in my stomach or throat - the pain is so bad! I was thinking of speaking to my doctor about trying to get my iron up via iron injections, and then starting the meds. I'm lost, really. One thing I have to ask (sorry so long) - are you saying if I keep on the medication, other things will start to get better because I'm finally normalizing my thyroid, and the candida/stomach problems will go away? Then, my stomach will stop burning out on the meds? Thanks again, I'll keep reading for any more suggestions you all have." |