Do you gain if you forget your thyroid medicine?

[jenivieve74]

actually the thyroid estrogen is not a precursor molecule it is a protein blood reation type thing. Estrogen creates more protein binding places in the blood stream and so your blood tested levels maybe fine but your cellular levels are off.

I just wondered what all of that meant.

[2big4mysize]

it means that the estrogen effects protein bonding sites in your blood and the thyroid hormone you are producing can be bound up in the ptoriens in your blood stream and not free to get to all your cells where it is needed. So your blood test will show your level of thyroid is fine but you will still have symptoms and not be fine. sort of like checking the gas tank when the car won't run. tank is full but the fuel transfer system is gummed up and the fule can't get to the engine.

[jenivieve74]

Ok I see thank you. I new that birht control pills could interfere with thyroid tests, but I never knew why. So foods can also interfere with too?

[2big4mysize]

food does not interfer with your tests. it interfers with the conversion of T4 to T3 the active form. Those foods are called goitrogens and as long as you eat them consitantly in your Atkins and have your thyroid level checked and titrated if need be for them you are fine.

All food can interfer with the absorption of medications into your blood stram which is why they say to wait one hour to eat or 2-3 hrs after eating to tak the pills.

You should discuss all of this with the doctor prescribing your medication