Guest guest Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 Hi all, I need to confer with medical-savvy folks on the list, if I can have your ear for a minute. I'm just wanting feedback from medical-savvy fellow vegans who are familiar with 'hypothyroidism'; my Kaiser doctor told me today that my TSH measured 8.3 or 8.6 (I have to nail this down again, I got a bit excited when he told me this on the phone and I didn't write it down, but I have the lab results coming to me in the mail). The cutoff for their lab is 5.3, I think he said. Jack Norris or anyone else out there, do you have any experience or can you offer any insight in to this? Doc wants me to start taking Synthroid, my homeopath of course recommends against it. Apparently a lot of perimenopausal women like myself are having these high TSH levels. My homeopath feels it may be that there is so much iodine in our food, even if we eat organic as much as we can (which I do). The homeopath had another menopausal woman whose elevated TSH normalized after a couple of years. Homeopaths do not believe in treatment based on an isolated lab value, and something in me rails against starting on synthetic hormone based on one lab value. I've been vegan about 5 or 6 years now. Any thoughts? I'm an LVN and I work with gyn nurse practitioners, so we're going to comb over the entries in their reference books on TSH, thyroid and women, but I thought I'd try to get the vegan perspective on this as well. Please email me privately. Thanks in advance, Janice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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