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Originally Posted by mrsD
Donating blood will do it!
Also make sure you are taking your medication on an empty stomach.
Thyroid meds need zinc and selenium in the diet or in supplements like Centrum Senior, to convert T4 to T3 in the tissues. If you are low in both of these you cannot convert well and may present as Low when you are really not.
Any major stressor can put a load on T3 ..trauma, surgery, illness, and I'd include losing blood.
But you should get checked out anyway... Have the nodule looked at.
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WOW, so glad I read this thread and this post! My hubby has been on Synthroid since 1985 when he had thyroid cancer at age 27. Lately, his blood work shows he needs an increase in thyroid meds. We had no idea about the zinc and selenium which he had been getting in his daily multivitamin...then he got tired of taking them the past year. So back on them he goes starting tomorrow!
Interesting to know that I'm not the only one that gets a MS flare within a few days of donating blood. No one else nor my doc has ever mentioned this. I just stopped donating after I realized the pattern.
Twinkletoes, please get that lump/node looked at soon! Good or bad you need to know. I hope you get to feeling better soon!
