I have just had a total Thyroidectomy due to a goiter, now I have started oroxine?

Does anyone have any info for me concerning diet, what to look for what not to take, eat, any info at all. Ta

I would like some personal experience info eg diets, what food not to eat what other side effects u can hav. I hav a good doc but sometimes they don"t have all the answers

umm.. since goiter is caused by iodine deficiency, i'd assume you should eat foods containing iodine???

I'd talk to your dr. about this rather than ask people on here...

webmd.com is a good site too for medical advice

Your best bet I would think is to talk to a Dietitian,Good luck

Try Vitamin C therapy. A few years ago a cancer specialist came out with a paper that said the best cancer/infection fighter found to date was Interferon. At the time it was $15,000 a gram. The paper also said that Interferon was a by-product of the natural breakdown of Vitamin C in your body. Shortly after that the FDA tried to make Vitamin C by prescription only. Guess why? The FDA has the RDA for Vitamin C set at 64 mg a day, just enough to ward off scurvy. Linus Pauling, who got a Nobel Prize for his work with Vitamin C and a second Nobel Prize for Organic Chemistry, said that 1000 mg a day should be the minimum and 2000 mg a day if you are sick or smoke. He played tennis almost daily until the day he died at 96. Personally, I got sick twice a year for 2 weeks at a time, for more than 20 years, with something to this day the doctors have no idea what it was, but for a week in the middle of those 2 weeks I was flat on my back. I started Vitamin C therapy once I gave up on the doctors. I took enough to be asymptomatic for those 2 weeks. Too much and I got diarrhea and too little and I got sick. Within a narrow range, and it followed a bell curve over those 2 weeks, I was not sick. At the height I was taking 40,000 mg a day and 300,000 over the 2 weeks. After 2 years of that I have not been sick since 鈥?more than 15 years. Vitamin C acts as a natural diuretic so you need to drink a lot of water and watch your body in total, but my kidneys did not dissolve as the doctors predicted, or get massive kidney stones as other predicted. I did not dissolve my bones as some predicted or completely calcify my joints as others predicted. I had no side effects at all. It might be something to consider.

My teen daughter has thryroid cancer and has had total thyroidectomy, as well as some lymph nodes removed. I am also an RN student graduating in June. So, I can speak from experience and a bit of a medical background. As far as diet goes, once you have your thyroid removed, there is a tendancy toward weight gain, despite the fact you are on replacement therapy. You will want to maintain a well-balanced diet basically. Keep your calorie count at a low norm. for your gender and height. I know that if you are taking Synthroid, you will want to take it one hour before consuming anything with calcium (milk, cheese, vitamins, etc). There are a few other foods and drugs that will alter the absorption rate of levothyroxine. You can find more details at the drug manufacturers website. I would recommend searching for the brand of levothyroxine that you are currently taking. I printed off details for what will interact with my daughter's medication, because I would not remember all of them! I hope this has helped a little bit. Also, there is no need to increase or decrease your iodine consumption as someone suggested. Best of luck to you.