B6 100 mg - can it help balance underactive thyroid?

[cm2545]

Is b6 at 100mg okay to take? A few times a week/month - will it be effective?

[Barb135]

Vitamin B6 can cause one to have very strange, vivid dreams.  If I take anything contains B6, I begin having dreams like that; as soon as I stop taking whatever has the B6, the dreams stop.

[Red_Star]

Actually the reports of neurological damage were after taking 2 grams (not 200 mcg) of vitamin B6 daily for two months or more.  But even at levels of 200 mg or more per day, vitamin B6 can eventually damage sensory nerves.

[Red_Star]

"B6 (Pyridoxine)

Without this vitamin the thyroid cannot utilise its iodine raw material efficiently to make the hormones.  This vitamin is needed even more by an overactive thyroid.  Muscle weakness is very common in people with an overactive thyroid and in those who are also lacking in B6." Thyroid UK - The Role of Vitamins in Thyroid Deficiency

The Tolerable Upper Intake Level (all sources both diet and supplements) for vitamin B6 is 100 mg daily.  The first major report of vitamin B6 toxicity appeared in the early 1980's. Until then, scientists believed vitamin B6 was like other water soluble vitamins and can could not be toxic.  The reports of neurological damage were after taking 200mcg of vitamin B6 daily for two months or more.

[LazyMoose]

B6 result is energy. Is this why you would only take it sporadically?

Just dont take it near you thyroid med - 4 hours apart is what they say.

B6 alone doesnt do much energy wise for me, feels shaky sometimes like caffine, but with tarine the three together is a mellow energy. Thats what red bull is.

Only you will know how it effects you.