Best thyroid conditions books according to redditors

We found 28 Reddit comments discussing the best thyroid conditions books. We ranked the 7 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.

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Top Reddit comments about Thyroid Conditions:

u/babagos · 10 pointsr/Hypothyroidism

Thyroid patients could be divided into three categories:

  1. Still have their thyroid, newly diagnosed, and wanting to try natural options, such as diet, to improve thyroid function.
  2. Diet may or may not have helped. Need information about medication options.
  3. No thyroid--already had a thyroidectomy or RAI, for whatever reason: Graves', goiter, cancer, etc. Need information about full replacement dose options.

    These are radically different scenarios, and the sidebar should be broken into these 3 (or is 2 part of 3?) sections, with books and websites or other links that could help. The sidebar now only pertains to scenario 1.

    I am scenario 3: RAI for Graves', which is why I find the Tired Thyroid book and website helpful. It's about trying to find your optimal dose on medication, because dosing by TSH simply doesn't work. The book debunks a lot of other thyroid myths too. Both the book and website reference numerous legitimate medical studies, so it can be shared with your doctor.

    You, campassi, are Scenario 1, so you push diet. I would like to see book recommendations, in case I wanted to do more reading on the topic. There are a LOT of thyroid books with words in the title like Healing or Curing or Healthy or Diet, but which ones are good, and which are garbage? There's SO much poorly written garbage out there! Nearly every book has a 4-5 star review, so even reviews aren't helpful, unless I read the 1-star reviews!

    Anyway, just some thoughts. Hopefully others will add to this.
u/msangeld · 4 pointsr/gravesdisease

Hello /u/GirlWithTheKeyTattoo I'm sorry to have to welcome you to our club.

First take a deep breath, you're going to be okay. Secondly I would start by taking a look at our wiki and some of the links in the sidebar. One Book I always recommend is Graves’ Disease: A Practical Guide By Elaine Moore You can get the kindle version for just $3.99 U.S.D. It has plenty of information in it to help you with understanding GD and to get you familiar with some terms you might not know or understand.

Do plenty of research as you'll need to become your own advocate when dealing with Doctors.

Now let me send you this: https://i.imgur.com/anqcRxv.gif

if you have any question feel free to post.

u/ishouldnotbeonreddit · 4 pointsr/Hypothyroidism

Stop, I'm blushing. :)

There is SO MUCH alt-thyroid crap science. I understand why-- the standard medical treatment does not address the autoimmune aspect of thyroid disease at all, which is just stupid given what we know about the effects of autoimmunity. It often doesn't relieve symptoms. Many doctors are misinformed or disagree (several of mine explicitly told me certain things were not thyroid symptoms, even if they were listed on the Mayo Clinic website as such). People who are suffering look for cures and are willing to experiment on themselves. Self-experimentation is subject to confirmation bias, the placebo effect, and all kinds of other problems. But it's all there is for a lot of us. I'm as guilty as the next person of rubbing glutathione cream on the bottoms of my feet and hoping for the best. It just didn't get me anywhere. It helps that I'm married to an evolutionary biologist (little-known fact: skepticism is sexually transmitted)!

If you like the science without the speculation, I recommend the Harvard Medical School Guide to Overcoming Thyroid Problems. It covers autoimmune and non-autoimmune thyroid problems, thyroid cancers and nodules, etc.

u/HappyCoconutty · 3 pointsr/Hypothyroid

>getting pregnant with a 3.41 TSH is totally fine

It's not fine, my endo and the book below both say that the ideal range for healthy conception and to ward off miscarriage is to start at 2.5 TSH. However, she bumped me to 1.08 TSH.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0738218677/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1480689115&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=hypothyroid+mom&dpPl=1&dpID=51WEmDHtYeL&ref=plSrch

Find another endo (easier said than done I know). You may have a T3 issue and not T4 or tsh. I had to demand to get my T3 tested. While you wait for that appointment, try out an autoimmune paleo diet (for the antibodies), or at least reduce grains and sugars. Take selenium and vitamin D to help your thyroid. Sleep in on the weekends or go to bed as early as you can. If they suspect that you have insulin resistance and not full blown PCOS, try reducing your carbs and increasing healthy fats while you wait.

u/BVO120 · 3 pointsr/Hashimotos

I've been reading this book, Your Healthy Pregnancy with Thyroid Disease and although it does mention the link, it also outlines strategies to reduce risk. As I understand it, the more 'in remission' (lowered antibodies to acceptable range) one's Hashimoto's is, the better.

u/The_Sloth_Racer · 3 pointsr/Hypothyroidism

That's likely your problem. You need to find another doctor that will prescribe an NDT like Armour. Endos can't/won't prescribe NDTs, only synthetics that don't work for the majority of thyroid patients (and studies have already proven this).

I wasted about a year on levo (and also include Cytomel) until I found a doctor who would prescribe an NDT. I had to leave my endo and then I found a new doctor at an integrative/functional medicine clinic that would prescribe Armour. A little while later, I discovered my primary care doctor was willing to prescribe Armour so now that's how I get it. I haven't seen an endo in years. My mom had to do the same thing, as have countless people that I know because endos won't prescribe NDTs.

Check out Stop the Thyroid Madness and Hypothyroid Mom if you haven't already. They both also have Facebook (StTM Facebook and HM Facebook) and YouTube pages (StTM YouTube) that you should check out. They're both wonderful sources of information and I believe they will really help you.

If you like to read, definitely read the two STTM books:

u/jmfhokie · 2 pointsr/stilltrying

Sorry for your loss. I have hypothyroidism and Hashimoto's as well. 2.96 is getting too high, you are right (even though, sadly, a lot of doctors would ignore it, at least from what I've found in my personal experience). See #5 under this link for optimal TSH: http://thyroidpharmacist.com/articles/hashimotos-and-pregnancy/ Additionally, consider this book, they go into all the tips to prevent miscarriage and getting TSH into optimal range (you can try to do so without thyroid replacement hormone medication through the AIP diet and supplements, but most thyroid patients will need some form of thyroid hormone). https://www.amazon.com/Your-Healthy-Pregnancy-Thyroid-Disease/dp/0738218677

u/barblougheed · 2 pointsr/selfpublish

Thyroid book from a patient's point of view. I cite over 900 references to show that treatment from doctors doesn't make sense. I then show that much of what patient internet groups believe isn't true either! http://www.amazon.com/Tired-Thyroid-Hyper-Healing-Breaking/dp/1495355535/

u/colorimetry · 1 pointr/Hypothyroidism

I didn't notice a difference in that respect, but there is a plausible mechanism. The high T3 content of Armour tends to suppress the thyroid more. I like Armour better than levothyroxine alone, but I feel better taking about half and half of both (under my endocrinologist's supervision).

I had more swings after having had iodine in a contrast agent for a heart scan. My endocrinologist told me that this would happen but that there was nothing to be done about it. He told me that I and all of my blood relatives should try to consume no more than 100% of the RDA for iodine each day, adding up the high iodine content of milk, multivitamin pills, iodized salt, and oversalted restraurant food and prepared food made with iodized salt (easy to get the five times the recommended daily intake each day that way). He said that overdoing iodine intake increases the thyroid's attempts to work, and as a result increases the autoimmune attack on the thyroid. See The Thyroid Solution.

u/campassi · 1 pointr/Hashimotos

> Ever since I started this I have felt awful. Throat fullness/tightness, headache, fatigue dizziness & nausea. Anyone else have this problem?

Iodine alone without cofactors can make for an unpleasant experience, what you're experiencing isn't unusual.

I have a few suggestions, but I do not know what is in your chaste berry supplement and multivitamin so be sure to check them for selenium/selenomethionine so you don't take too much.

300-600mg magnesium (malate and taurate are good ones)

100mg B2 riboflavin twice a day (the yellow component of a b-complex)

500mg niacin twice a day (use inositol hexanicotinate, usually called "no flush" niacin, 500mg of true B3/niacinamide/nicotinic acid will ruin your day)

200mcg selenomethionine (be sure to check the multivitamin and other supplement for this, you don't want more than 400mcg in a day)

1,000mg Vitamin C (3 times a day)

1/2 tsp Celtic sea salt (Redmond Real salt works too)

I believe these will help you see a welcome improvement, this is a great baseline to start out with.

More info available in [Iodine by David Brownstein M.D.] and [The Iodine Crisis by Lynne Farrow]

Quick links:

[Magnesium malate]

[B2/B3 cofactors]

[Selenomethionine]

[Vitamin C]

[Celtic sea salt]

[12.5mg iodine](what you're taking now is probably great, though the books recommend 50mg)

u/norsewoman · 1 pointr/Hypothyroidism

I can echo this. Some doctors will tell you that any levels below 2.5-3.0 for TSH is fine. But more recent research points to levels needing to be near 1.0. My TSH was at 2.5 this summer when I got pregnant and I ended up miscarrying at 7 weeks. Was it because of my hypothyroidism (Hashimotos)? We will never know because no doctor thought to test my TSH levels at the time of the miscarriage. Since then, this book was recommended to me: Your Healthy Pregnancy with Thyroid Disease I strongly suggest reading this book for all of the information but also for its ability to empower the reader to be a self-advocate in the doctor's office.