Coming off Thyroxine?

[Janine0147]

Has anyone had the experience of successfully coming off Thyroxine? If so, was there a particular way to do it? I should have gone to see my doctor to discuss the process, but I haven't due to xmas/new years. I want to get a blood test done to show my thyroid's natural functions as I am hoping it has righted itself, so I have done 3 days on half dose and now 2 days on no dose of Thyroxine. I was told (by my Applied Kinesiologist) that it will usually take at least 4 days off the medication (a couple of which you might feel pretty ordinary) to get a fair blood test reading. If anyone can offer any advice on this would be much appreciated. I am seeing the kinesiologist to try to get off thyroxine and he's had me on P5P for a couple of months which is where he believes my deficiency was, resulting in an autoimmune response attacking the thyroid. Thanks, Janine.

[lucylou]

Hi Janine

I've responded to your PM. You sound as though you're on the right track but as I've never used Thyroxine I'm not of much help. I am curious about P5P...what is it? I have the auto-immune disease as well and was told by my GP that meditation is the only thing that has shown to help auto-immune diseases...a pretty amazing thing for a doctor to admit! I'm a regular meditator and it seems to be working my antibodies are decreasing although still way over what's acceptable. So I am curious.

x

LL