thyroid

[troubled1972]

I am 57 years old told my tsh is 4.92 am on 25 mg ot thyroid meds for 7 weeks...can I control this with a diet

[goolarra]

TSH is a screening test at best.  However, your TSH is clearly high (hypo).  AACE recommended several years ago that TSH range be adjusted to 0.3-3.0.  Many doctors and labs still used the older range.

Your doctor should be tsting FT3 and FT4 as well as TSH.  If he's making meds decisions based on TSH only, you need to find a new doctor.

When are you scheduled for labs again?

[troubled1972]

4.92 tsh is all I have from doctor

[Barb135]

Goolarra's statement "Two of the more popular involve selenium and a gluten free diet.  However, these only help if the cause of your hypo has been determined to be autoimmune."

I would add that if autoimmune damage is too great, nothing will reverse it.   Selenium seems to be most useful in the conversion of FT4 to FT3......

[flyingfool]

You can't get Hormone from diet.  It is either your own natural thyroid gland or medication.  As far as we know there is no plant or herb or something that will give you hormone if you are deficient.

New discovery's are being made every day. But I would be very wary about anyone that claims that they have a wonder herb that will solve deficient thyroid.

If you get more testing you may want to consider in addition to the Free T4 and Free T3 and Hashi' antibidies.  You may want to consider the following
:

Vit D
Vit B-12
Iron
Selenium
Calcium

Selenium is one vitamin that can help with the efficiency of conversion of T4 into usable T3.  But too much selenium can be toxic so you really don't want to take too much without knowing where you are at.

Vit D and B-12 deficiency is fairly common in people who are low Thyroid.

With all these vitamins the normal ranges can be quite large.  Many people (not all) find they need to be towards the top of the ranges to feel well.

[goolarra]

It's doubtful.  Do you know the cause of your hypo, i.e. do you have Hashi's?  Hashi's is an autoimmune disease that is one of the most prevalent causes of hypo in the developed world.

There are a number of theories out there that have to do with controlling the autoimmune antibody response with diet and/or supplements.  These are mostly unproven.  Two of the more popular involve selenium and a gluten free diet.  However, these only help if the cause of your hypo has been determined to be autoimmune.

How do you feel?  Do you have many hypo symptoms?  Has your doctor tested FREE T3 and FREE T4 as well as TSH?  

[gimel]

Most unlikely that you could succeed with diet only.   Please post your thyroid test results and their reference ranges shown on the lab report and members can comment further on the adequacy of your testing and treatment.  Also, please have a look at this list of 26 typical hypothyroid symptoms and tell us which ones you have.

http://endocrine-system.emedtv.com/hypothyroidism/hypothyroidism-symptoms-and-signs.html