hashimoto's and gluten

No connection as far as the research I have done goes. But I haven't been keeping up to date on it.
I don't have hashimoto's, but I am hypothyroid. I don't eat gluten as much as I can because it does make me feel kinda icky. But I don't think it has anything to do with each other unless your gluten sensitive or have Celiac's.

I have hashimotos and I am fine as long as I take my levo........I think you would know if you have an issue with gluten, I hear it is hard to ignore!

Ok so I have hashimotos also and my dr strongly advised going gluten free ....DESPITE having no symptoms.
Upon learning this I have been doing research and there is lots of evidence to support this. Basically all hashimotos patients are shown to have a gluten sensitivity, which is not the same as celiac therefore may not present with symptoms. The idea here is that whenever any gluten gets into your system your antibodies attack the gluten and also your thyroid gland. If you cut out gluten you will reduce your antibodies and also your risk of other autoimmune disease and slow your body attack in your thyroid. Read a book called " why do I still have thyroid symptoms? " by dr kharrazian. Very helpful an informative.

I have Hashimoto's. TO my knowledge I don't have any issues with gluten. What issues are you having. I tend to get Iritis alot (unrelated obviously...) but I was told the frequent Iritis was due to Hashimoto's.

After years of feeling like crap, I made the decision to leave endocrinology altogether and search out someone who actually cared about my healing instead of gaining more money from me. Diagnosed with Hashimoto's Disease in 1994, I took synthroid for 12 years and still felt horrible. Tired, fat, and frustrated, I read up on Armor Thyroid and its involvement in the T3/T4 conversion. Synthroid was not cutting it. It wasn't giving me what I needed to complete the conversion. My then-endo finally agreed and prescribed me Armor. Within weeks, I felt a TON better, however, I would feel good for a while and then start feeling sluggish again, SO she would increase my meds and the cycle would continue. I started reading up on goitrogens and how they blocked absorption of thyroid hormones and meds, so on my own, I stopped eating raw cruciferous veggies, peaches, peanuts, etc. I asked my endo about them, and she offered NO education on them or even what my diet should comprise. In fact, every endo I ever saw treated me the same way: TAKE YOUR PILL. YOU WILL BE FINE. EXERCISE. EAT 1200 CALORIES A DAY. YOU WILL LOSE WEIGHT. To me, that equaled starvation. And no matter how hard I tried to lose, I could not. I failed at every way of eating. Even when I ate nothing, I gained. Two years ago, I just so happened to get a new hairdresser who told me she had Hashimoto's. No way. She was skinny and her hair was fabulous and skin glowed. She began telling me about her struggles with the disease and how her doctor had changed her life. I got the name of number of her doc. I held on to it for a whole year, struggling with the notion of leaving my all-knowing endos. It scared me to death. (Somewhere in between there, I began reading about the effects of gluten on the thyroid gland. I couldn't find much on the subject. I took the chance and I went gluten free for a month and lost 10 pounds.) But I did it. I made the appointment to a doctor who was not an endocrinologist. She was a breast surgeon. Hmmm... She sat with me for two hours, explaining to me scientifically how are bodies are designed and how nutrition is a real science and how jaded we are with the food and drug industry. I knew all she was saying but it was never set in me to enforce it. As she spoke, it was like some kind of invisible wall fell around me. My mind was cleared of everything I had ever been taught or was raised to believed. My comfort foods were essentially killing me. In a nut shell, she said that we are designed to eat like the natives: meat, veg, fruits, eggs, nuts. All the rest is garbage. The big thing is that we are an inflamed society, meaning inflammation is killing us. It starts in our bowels, whether we feel it or not, and causes autoimmune diseases. Some people are sensitive to dairy or grains or certain dairy or grains for example. "Gluten" is considered a major culprit that causes inflammation, especially nowadays because it is mostly all genetically modified. Wheat, barley, rye, and triticale are mostly GMO, where they are missing a major component of their original ancestors. Those grains that we eat now are considered to be nonconsumable foods. In other words. humans should not eat them. Compare the original grains to the GMO ones like butter verses margarine. Yeah, it is THAT bad. So it is not even a gluten issue, but the term gluten is generic in keeping people from consuming the foods that contain gluten. What happens is the gluten gets digested and travels to the small intestine, where it irritates the bowel so bad that the villi that line the bowel and take in nutrients to the blood stream get destroyed. It might seems that a Hashimoto's patient is not affected by gluten, but they probably are because they cannot absorb nutrients efficiently. Celiac's patients have little or no villi. It's pure starvation. Most Hashimoto's patients I know are vitamin D deficient. Heal the villi and start absorbing nutrients. Stop eating gluten and heal the villi. Some folks might be gluten intolerant and intolerant to other irritant foods. They have to experiment by refraining from eating these foods for weeks at a time to figure this out. I feel so much better and I am not considered a likely candidate for other autoimmune diseases now. In fact, I have told my story to people with diabetes and other AI diseases and they went gluten free, only to get great results. The healing starts with diet. Find out what is causing inflammation and take it out of your diet. And according to my new awesome doc, I can heal my Hashimoto's if I completely eradicate the inflammation from my body. I am still on Armor but she dropped my dose and added 15 mcgs of Cytomel (T3) A DAY. I FEEL FABULOUS! So far, so good. We will see...

OMG I have Hashimotos and have been gluten free for a little over a month and it has helped soooooo much! I also dont take thyroid meds. I feel so much better! Try it for a month if you haven't yet, you wont regret it. Avoid Goitrogenic foods too.