Guest guest Posted March 8, 2008 Report Share Posted March 8, 2008 Somethings I keep forgetting to ask: does or should taking thyroid medication cause the thyroid to shrink in size? Why? Once thyroid medication is stopped, how long until the thyroid starts working on its own again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 8, 2008 Report Share Posted March 8, 2008 Yes taking full replacement of thyrodi meds does cause the thyroid to shrink, mainly as it is no working. From what I have read, even after years on thy5roid replacement the thyroid will return to working as much as it can in 6-9 weeks. There was a study done (in animals I htink) wiht normal thyroids and when thyroid was given in replacement doses their thyroids still returned to normal function fully after 9 weeks after withdrawing all meds. -- Artistic Grooming- Hurricane WV http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/ http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/NaturalThyroidHormonesADRENALS/ http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/RT3_T3/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 8, 2008 Report Share Posted March 8, 2008 Val, probably you've noticed the comments i've written about selenium and how I think selenium deficiency is my 'root' problem of being intolerant and non-responsive to thyroid meds and the reason why I have adverse reactions to selenium. anyway, I was doing a test. I stopped thyroid meds and took only selenium to see if maybe I didn't really need thyroid meds. But after about 5 days without meds I decided it was better to slowly add back in t3. I seem to have adverse reactions to thyroid meds at a dose of 20 mcg t3 and the adverse reaction gets worse at this dose if I add in selenium. I'm currently at 10 mcg t3 plus selenium. From what I've read, a dose of say only 10 or 15 mcg t3 is so low it's like taking nothing at all. If I'm right about only needing selenium and not thyroid hormone would I need to wait a full 6-9 weeks for my thyroid to start working again once stopping thyroid meds in order to really evaluate the success of taking selenium only? long and winded question but do you understand my point? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 9, 2008 Report Share Posted March 9, 2008 I hear what you are saying and I suspect it wold not take that long for your thyroid to start working agian as it is not totally supressed oon the doses you have been taking. -- Artistic Grooming- Hurricane WV http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/ http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/NaturalThyroidHormonesADRENALS/ http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/RT3_T3/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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