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dundana66 | 23:12 Thu 03rd Aug 2006 | Body & Soul
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I have a thyroid level that is on the lower end of normal, as anyone with similar levels managed to increase the level with help of iodine inriched foods. and without medication.
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I was never offered that option, they put me on two tablets in 1990 and i have been on them ever since/
Please read this article... it's highly instructive from an authoritative source: http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/graves_dis ease/61800

I keep it in a file just for questions such as yours...

Best of luck!
eltroxin is what my wife is on. it does the job
I have an unactive thyroid and as far as I am aware you must take tablets for the rest of your life. they are thyroxine. Brenda x
I am on Thyroxine too ~ I have never seen or heard of any research which indicates that medication is not needed for underactive thyroid..

I have been on the medication for a year..energy levels are much better (I am no longer passing out with tiredness) but the weight issue still continues. I am on 100mg per day.

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