Well doctors in Aus aren't doctors on the NHS. You can pick and choose here.

As for supplements, here's a little list.

http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/supplements/

It's really experimenting to find what works for you.

Daily, I take:
Vitamin C (Very high dose, about 3000mg)
Vitamin D
Vitamin B complex
Magnesium
CoQ10 - energy energy energy!
Selenium
Boron and Zinc together
Omega 3 + 6

Sometimes I add in probiotics for a week or two, then other times, I forget to take anything at all and regret it a week later.
There is research to show that taking supplements all the time isn't so hot for you... that taking them periodically just as you would eat seasonally is more beneficial.
Up to you really.

I've been reading about tyrosine which is the building block of thyroid... so thinking of sourcing some of that and having a little bash.

I take:

Decent Multivit
Extra 1000mg Vit C (more if I'm under the weather, plus Echinacea)
Omega 3

These are the default I would recommend anybody to take; nobody has the perfect diet. My husband takes these, too.

Add to that:

Glucosamine and Chrondoitin (for my creaky joints)
Calcium with Vit D & Magnesium (I need a lot for my osteoporosis)
Probiotics (esp as I have a leaky gut)
Other me-specific stuff

When my gut was at its worst I also took L-Glutamine powder.

I would like to take Boron with my Calcium but can't find a suitable supplement here - any clues, Tiddly?

In Singapore I wasn't on pig, I took Metagenics Thyrosol (I know WVB Healthcare stocks Metagenics) and it was doing the job, albeit slowly.

This is interesting reading for the omega 3 and 6 people.

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.co...uppresses.html

Very, thanks Tiddly. I've always struggled to get answers on Omega 3 v Omega 6 for our specific (thyroidy) needs.

I eat ground seeds every day with my breakfast as well as nibbling on seeds and nuts as snacks (when I snack - I'm terrible for not eating for 6-8 hours ) but I don't eat oily fish every day so I supplement that.

Yes, well I was taking O6 until I read that.

I got my L Tyrosine so have had a first dose this afternoon with lunch. I'll let you know how that goes. Have cleared with the doc and she's ok'd it.

Link here if you want to look:

http://thyroidtalk.org/hypothyroidis...hypothyroidism

I'm glad you posted on this. Slap...must...eat...lunch...not having dinner 'til 9pm.

Bump it again tomorrow and I'll have a good read of the link I must call Dr B, tomorrow, too - she should have some more results for me.

Norty! Eat your lunch! (I can talk... I miss meals all the time - sometimes just can't eat...)

It says in that link that it's been known since the 1970's that 'all polyunsaturated fats (PUFA) suppress thyroid signaling'.

This would explain why I feel so good when I eat larger amounts of animal fats....

I recently swapped to that 'better fats' thing. Now I am returning to the animal. Yeah.

Oh, and rapeseed is goitrogenic.

There now, don't we all feel so much better?!

It's fine all these doctors telling us to eat every 2 hours, but then they say you can't eat this and you can't eat that, you're intolerant to this and that's not good for your thyroid...so I actually rarely feel like eating.

Not specific to thyroid but I've recently been reading about GE foods. I like to have an open mind until I've verified information but I do believe in reading everything I can on these issues. This site has a list of GE food and GE-free manufacturers: http://www.truefood.org.au/

I find I am best on meat, fish and salad. Anything else, bleurghhhh!
Keeps it simple I guess.

I'm going completely GF now, instead of just wheat free. Nothing like a challenge, eh?

God no, I can't give up oats - what else would I eat for breakfast?

I ate Freedom Foods rice thingymajigs with psyllium this morning, along with chopped banana and a teaspoon of cinnamon (good for lowering and stabilising blood glucose)
The cardboard taste was offset by the added goodies.

My breakfast (I think I posted this on the old thread so apologies for stuck record) consists of oatmeal, ground seeds (done weekly at home so they are relatively fresh), chopped apple and sheep yoghurt. I used to have it with water but my nutritionist said I needed more protein for breakfast.

I eat apple or pear because it's easy to digest. I think I'm slightly intolerant to bananas - must review my charts. I know I'm intolerant to citrus fruits. Had to stop putting calamansis in my gin. Also got a bit of gut candida so can't eat too much fruit. Might try rice cereal for a change.

Another BE member is going through all this at the moment. She's still having tests but she's been very unwell and her doctor agrees with me that she's underactive and has a gluten allergy. I'm hoping she joins in our thread or, at the very least, gets some useful information from it.

Sorry for butting in on your conversation.
But that bis the same as me, i am under active and now just been diagnosed gluten free.
And i can tell you its a pain in the neck.
I take all my tablets in the morning at breakfast time, but i ant have any breakfast as it seems to make me feel poorly.
Some times i can have a bowl of cereal, but that's on the rare occasion, but them i would have to take more medication to counter react it.

Oh! Do you think that is why i can eat some days and then others i just dont feel like eating and my husband cant understand it as i can go without eating for days.
But i have to go careful, because if i dont eat a lot in a day i end up loosing a least a couple of pounds in weight just for that day.

I was told not to eat fruit and salad stuff.
But every now and then i sneak a banana out.