Synthroid patients who actually succeed in eating breakfast?

ShinyFuture

As far as 'how do I eat something in the morning': I'm not sure OP ever responded to any of the suggestions to take a small cooler, but as someone who lives in a hot area (110 deg is normal; "cold" for us is low 60's), everyone i know uses one most of the year. I spend a lot of time commuting, and i may not know until the last minute that my start will be in the office 60 miles away instead of the one 25, so i always carry almonds, fruit (apples, bananas, grapes, clementines usually) carrot sticks, home-popped popcorn, KIND bars (no soy, low sugar, gf - and tasty!) sometimes trail mix and other travel-friendly foods. I take my thyroid meds at night.

IHateMyThyroid

Yikes, ShinyFuture, adding variable location and last-minute scheduling to the mix is a tough one! I'm impressed!

deannalfisher, I'm looking for a cardiologist. Very challenging to get all the specialist appointments in when I'm on PTO accrual and I've already used it all up for 2018. But definitely on my list. It's very slight long QT rather than "OMG you need to see a cardiologist three weeks ago", but it's just a few microseconds too much for any mainstream ADHD script.

The behavior therapist is another longstanding To Do. I'm a CBT nonresponder. I used to have an amazing therapist who was certified in EMDR and who had tons of experience with adult autistic women. And then I got laid off from my old job and had to take this one, which is about a hundred miles from her office. Have been trying for a year to replace her within driving range. The only person I found was out of network, and literally within 24 hours after I located the practice, my husband's salary was cut by $8000 with no warning and I couldn't afford the out of network price any more.

I realize that you probably all think I'm writing fiction at this point, or that I'm psychotic and/or a hypochondriac! But I swear that all these laughably, improbably crappy things really happened! (I also got laid off from that last job the first day I came back after a hysterectomy, propped up with an abdominal binder and high on Vicodin. You can't make this stuff up. And if you did, the literary agent would tell you to tone your plot down.)

Everyone has been super supportive. Thanks!

33gail33

Nvm

rheddmobile

Okay. Here's my best shot. (For the record what I do is get up an hour early, take mine, feed the cats, work out, etc. then eat breakfast. But I completely understand if you can't face that hour in the morning. It's a severe pain sometimes, especially when I need to be somewhere at the crack of dawn.)

You can't do oatmeal or eggs because of the texture. How about making those things into your own protein bar / muffin? It would be temperature stable, have a better texture, and not necessarily candy sweet. I made some low-carb high-protein cranberry spice muffins for myself recently using a mixture of almond flour and steel cut oats, pecans, eggs, and so on. The recipe was a bit thrown together but they ended up being very filling, and I feel sure there are enough recipes for this sort of thing that you could easily find one to suit yourself. It wasn't expensive, and 6 muffins would keep you for a week. So you would only have to get yourself organized and together once, and then it would be grab and go.

grinning_chick

Since you state you cannot function without caffeine first thing and/or on the commute, and there is no indication in your posts of desire/ability to change that, talk to your doctor about switching to the soft gel cap or even liquid version of synthetic T4 replacement meds available. They were developed specifically to address digestion/absorption/allergic issues in some patients when it comes to the conventional pill based T4 meds. And reportedly there are published studies available online for perusal which demonstrate caffeine does not interfere with their absorption and/or can be taken *with* breakfast for improved QOL (quality of life).

If you learn during your own research concerning these two alternate formulations that the liquid version is still having problems with commercial availability - I skimmed over hits from a few years back concerning possible product discontinuation/subsequent reissue of FDA approval of for another manufacturer - ask your doctor if there are compounding options for it (or even for a gel cap version if there is a patient-favorable cost difference concerning). Compounding also comes with the added value of the ability to choose flavoring, fwiw.

If that is too much to take on at the moment, the other option I didn't see you comment on the earlier suggestion of so may have missed, and I second, is a conventional pill based switch to a different brand of synthetic T4 or a natural T3/T4 replacement medication. See if your absorption window is different with a different drug manufacturer than the one you are currently struggling with.

Good luck,

amy19355

I take synthroid in the morning and don’t pay attention to the time thing, because, between when i take it and when i eat breakfast, at least 30 minutes has elapsed and I figure it’s close enough. In 20 years, I haven’t had any issues.

MelanieCN77

I think dismissing a little prep might be a mistake. You're getting up and out and functioning enough each day, I'm not sure why the weekends would be out of bounds for a little self help? Even just some jars of oats and milk in the fridge Sunday night sounds like it would solve your breakfast issue entirely, and take not even ten minutes to set up.

one_day23

I take my synthroid in the morning. I’m on 175 mcg at the moment. I started Food Addicts in Recovery recently and have gave up sugar and flour and weigh and measure my 3 meals and don’t snack. It feels amazing. Every morning I have:
6 oz of blueberries (frozen that I put in the fridge the night before)
1 oz plain oatmeal, dry. Then I cook it with just water.
8 oz of plain non fat yogurt.

I split the berries and put them into my yogurt and oatmeal. So far I’ve lost 32 lbs just dieting. I recently started going to the gym to get over a mini plateau. I’m really happy with this program

yirara

Can you eat simple sandwiches? Two slices of bread, something spreadable on it if you like (I know I don't), cheese or meat, maybe some vegetable, done. If you're able to eat in the car focus-wise then maybe that's an option.