thyroid melatonin and heat production

[lyngirl]

I have been taking armour thyroid for about five years now for hypothyroidism--I am 39.  I take it at night before bed (at least two hours after dinner) as it seems to help with getting up in the morning.  I recently started taking melatonin and I am now having hot flashes.  I had these initially when I first started taking thyroid (I think it had more to do with my metabolism and heat regulation actually working or trying to work right).  I was wondering if melatonin needs to be taken one hour or four hours after my thyroid pill.  I take a mulitvitamin, iodine and a thyroid support vitamin in the morning and I have to take these four hours after my thyroid pills.

[Mark Lupo, M.D.]

I don't know of any data regarding melatonin interacting w/ thyroid hormone but any pill has the potential to interfere w/ absorption of thyroid hormone.  Might be worth trying to separate these by an hour or so.

[Mzzchief]

You may be interested in this article,although the bulk of it addresses the action of a patented form of guggul on the thyroid... I'm not so sure that melatonin is a good thing for us hypos to take after reading this. Melatonin seems to suppress the action of the thyroid, which is why you're getting the same symptoms you had prior to taking levothyroxine.

Melatonin may help shrink goiter, or help those who are hyPERthyroid, but there really haven't been enough studies to recommend it.

Anyways, here ya go:

http://www.gugulipid.com/pre3.htm

Mzzchief