Re: Bugleweed - anyone use it & like it?

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Hi Ron, I took bugleweed for just under a year - and I took it with a beta

blocker. It was prescribed to me by a team of doctors at Bastyr which is one

of the most highly regarded natural medicine universities in the country.

I'm not sure where you heard your scarry stuff as I never heard either of

those points. I have heard that some endos don't want to treat you if you

take herbs with ATDs as it is more complicated to determine dose adjustments

(they say) and most MDs just have a general mistrust of herbs anyway.

Bugleweed is a powerful antithyroid herb and I don't really see why anyone

would *want* to take it with their ATD - seems to me it's an either or thing

- if you add some to your PTU, it's only going to make you go hypo - you

would have to mess around with your doses. And if you think it's going to

taste much better than your PTU, think again ;-)

Hope that helps,

Pam B.

-- Bugleweed - anyone use it & like it?

I am just wondering about the herb bugleweed.

Who takes it & what do you find that it does for

you?

I've read both *great* reports, and also some

scarry stuff, like (a) you can't take even a small

dose of Bugleweed if you are on PTU or Tap,

and ( that Bugleweed should not be taken

if you're on a beta blocker.

I am taking PTU, 50mg. (1 pill) three times a

day (150mg. total per day), spaced exactly

every 8 hours. I also take a beta blocker

(Atenolol).

Any advice or thoughts would be really

appreciated, as I'd like to try Bugleweed.

(But only if it is safe.)

Thank you,

Ron

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