So it's a new year and I tend to get on the right path and get healthy and exercise more. been doing research and can't figured out what vitamins tend to work better with me being hypothyroid( low or underactive thyroid). I been taking multi vitamins, vitamin c tablet, and just brought the liquid vitamin b12. I also think I may have low iron because I had that with my last child and I tend to bruise easy. Took iron tablets before and I stopped bruising so easy, so I think I might try that again. Also I heard people talk about vitamin d or d3? Don't know if thats good take with being low thyroid. If any of yall have low thyroid what vitamins do you take?? Thanks!!
*** updated. Thanks for the answers. I have a appt next month with my doctor. He told me a few ago to take vitamin b12 to help give me a little more energy since I feel like i'm dragging all the time. I don't take my thyroid medicine at the same time with my vitamins I space those at least 4 hours apart. I'll ask him next month what he thinks I should or shouldn't take. Thanks again!!
I read an article today that taking some vitamins with your evening meal, it's usually larger and higher in fat content, helps a whole lot with the vitamin absorption.
I think I'd really do some research into this and make sure you're taking the right ones and when they do the most work.
Most people think that getting the vitamins through a more natural source such as food is much better for your body though.
I think it's a good idea to see your dr and have a Complete blood count and reading before jumping to supplements.
I have had regular CBC's to make sure what I'm doing is ok. I take subliminal B-12 and D for absorption issues. I take a dissolving Biotin. Then a regular folic acid, chewable C's and liquid fish and flax oil.
Everything I do is regulated by my Dr and routine testing.
Supplements can be great or you can waste your time and $$ in someone's special snake oil.
Get your Dr opinion first, plesse tgen best wishes to feeling better!!!
I wouldn't guess what vitamins to take. There is such a thing as too much of a good thing and you can make yourself sick in the process.
I agree with TF Plano/Allen. Get yourself to a doctor and have a complete blood work up. From there, find out what you are missing and work with your doctor to bring those levels up.
Using myself as an example. After going in because I was not well, a full blood panel was done. Turned out to be extremely low on Vitamin D (normal is 30-80 and I was 6.14). I was on a carefully monitored high dose where I had to go in every 3 months to be retested. I finally got the results back and after almost a year I am finally in the normal range and am on a much lower daily dose of Vitamin D to hopefully keep my levels in the normal range. Reading all the materials given to me, if you are taking too much Vitamin D you can have problems absorbing calcium and can become ill. You can't take it with certain kinds of medication. My other levels were fine when first tested. Had I tried to self medicate I could have messed with that balance.
You are taking a prescribed medication for your thyroid which makes it all the more important to talk to your doctor. They can tell you safe dosages and how to space it around your current medications.
Another thing I read on the paperwork is that the high dose of Vitamin D I was taking could throw off other test results like cholesterol. Self medicating could be showing signs of a problem that doesn't actually exist. Vitamins are still medication and should be treated as such.
First of all, if you take thyroid replacement medicine, it probably says that you should avoid supplements containing calcium, zinc and iron for 4 hours because it inhibits the uptake of the thyroid medication. Check for those little stickers on your prescription bottle, but if they aren't there, talk to your pharmacist anyway.
Secondly, mixing and matching vitamins is a job for food scientists, not for consumers. The ratios are extremely important, so if you take too much of one thing or too little of another, or if you are leaving out key ones, they will not be usable by themselves. That's why many doctors (who are not even nutrition experts themselves) refer to standard vitamins as "expensive urine" - most of it is eliminated. The vitamin industry took off about 25 years ago with the micronutrient model - individual bottles of vitamins and minerals. It was beneficial for the companies, but the consumers lost a ton of money. And we have an unprecedented health crisis. So that model has been abandoned by the more advanced scientists, with the focus being on cellular level nourishment.
You'll hear of people taking a multi and then adding a little of this and a little of that because of what they read in a magazine, but there is little or no evidence that this method works. And that's if you know where and how the products were made, which you usually don't. It makes no sense to take a supposedly complete product and then add to it with a few more things. What's the science behind that?
The key to vitamins is that they are not to be taken alone, or even in the standard "multivitamin" complex. Pills are not particularly absorbable (maybe 15-30% depending on how they are made), most over-the-counter combinations are not bioavailable (don't survive digestion or the opposite, aren't dissolved, so they pass right through the digestive tract nearly whole), and they are not synergistically blended. The same way calcium requires Vitamin D for absorption/utilization, most essential nutrients require others.
I have hypothyroid disease and also had bruising and low energy, and I spent a fortune doing all of the above. Once I got into the food science field, I learned what I was doing wrong and switch to comprehensive cellular nutrition. I got far better results and wound up saving money over all those fistfuls of pills.
I have low thyroid. I take a multi vitamin and mineral, vitamin c, vitamin e, b complex, vitamin a and d3. They seem to be working well for me. This time of year I am ready to up my vitamin c intake drastically at the first sign of illness in our home. We all try to do it and thank God, we haven't been sick at all in about 4 years and we feel good too!
Definitely don't take anything the doctor doesn't tell you too, you can overdo it easily.
I take a lot of vitamins since I am post gastric bypass surgery, but I don't take all they told me I would need to. Why? Because I get some of them still from the foods I eat. Others I'm lacking in and take the supplements, but the dosage is different from what it originally should have been. So I really recommend you meet with your doctor before you start anything.
For Vitamin D, you can definitely have too much. Get that level checked, a lot of women are low in it. I was taking 50,000 IU's for 8 weeks, now I take 28,000 IU's....which is still a high dosage. But mine was almost dangerously low.
So seriously, just go get checked. And get checked once a year. They can do a full work up (more than the three tubes they take at normal appointments for me) and find out exactly what you need to take. I get 19 tubes of blood taken when they check all of my levels.
I am hypothyroid and I take a lot of vitamins. I take a womens multi, vitamin C, vitamin B complex, vitamin D, nature throid (my thyroid medication), evening primrose (for severe monthly cramps and PMS), and probiotics.
My Dr says that all of these are good for me. I was really low on vitamin D, and vitamin B will help with adrenals.
