Posted by noa on December 16, 2003, at 18:05:59
In reply to Re: Thyroid alternatives? - Tea Lady » Maxime, posted by tealady on December 15, 2003, at 23:10:46
I think that if you take thyroid with food, the thyroid hormone will not be absorbed well. It sometimes is a pain in the butt, it's true, but I've mostly gotten the routine down. When I wake up, first thing I do before anything else is take my Adderall and my thyroid meds. THen I get washed and dressed, and then when I eat, I take my other meds which require food. Then, in the late afternoon when I take the other half of my cytomel, I try to remember to take it late afternoon, well after lunch but at least an hour before dinner. The truth is that my endo told me that while an hour before food is best, it isn't terrible if sometimes there is only a 1/2 hour in between.
Sometimes the routine doesn't work, but mostly it's ok.
Oh, and one more thing---thyroid meds are rendered less effective if taken anywhere in the vicinity of any soy products. My endo recommended a buffer zone of 4 hours before and after. For me, this was a far more complicated issue than the issue of taking it without food, because I'm a vegetarian and eat a fair amount of soy products. Now, I try to eat my soy products for lunch, which is at least 4 hours away from thyroid dosings at either end.
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