Does taking your medication and vitamins screw up what time you can eat?

Not now, but in the past I’ve had a diet like that. There was about a month that it was so complicated, I didn’t even leave the house because I’d miss something.

I have figured out that for the meals I take with food, I eat a very very small meal. That way I can fairly quickly take the next supplement that requires an empty stomach

My medicine intake is so minor I will not mention it, but my wife’s is exactly as you describe.
She takes a thyroid medicine as well. On the weekends I always hear her complaining about how long she needs to wait before breakfast.

I take thyroid medication and a relatively large dose at that. I basically just floundered and suffered a lot by not being terribly compliant for a number of years. My appetite has changed, though, in recent months, so now it’s not so big a deal to not eat for an hour. If I do eat or just forget, then I just take it later in the day after not eating for 2 hours, again because I’m not eating nearly as much or as often as I used to.

It was a perennial pain in the ass an source of existential angst for me for a very long time, so I definitely have sympathy and have shared those same gripes with other hypo people, and I don’t think it’s any less worthy of bitching about—I literally will die if I stop taking mine because the thyroid controls that much functioning. Odd thing is that long before that happens, your body can do some wacky, uncomfortable things, which is what happened to me when I stopped taking it for a few months.

Anyway, I’m lucky lately that my hunger is way more manageable, and that I found a way to reframe the meaning of my life so that it greatly diminishes the significance of taking the medicine correctly. As a friend who used to teach yoga would say, “It is just the physical body.” To that I would add that I know now that I am not my body, so I’m free to maintain it without having to be emotionally or psychologically bothered by the maintenance. I’m doing much better these days.

Hi Kevbo! I was thinking about recently. Nice to see you back. I would be a total wreck if I didn’t take my thyroid meds. Just taking slightly too much or too little within a few weeks I am a mess and the blood tests back it all up with scary numbers. I would die without the medication also. It controls my blood pressure, heart rate, everything moves around. I also have my appetite change drastically with how fast or slow my thryoid is. I changed to armour thyroid about a year ago, it has been better in some ways, but I am still tweaking it.

@snowberry I’m kind of the opposite in that if I am going to move the time around a little I would rather only wait a half hour after taking the empty stomach med, then hope my stomach is empty shortly after a small meal. The recommendation is usually minimum two hours after a meal. My mom experimented once and only waited a half an hour to eat almost daily in between thryoid testing and she had no change. Not that I recommend doing it, I don’t, but it influences what I do if I know I am tight on time. It only happens once in a blue moon for me anyway that I need to do something like that regarding something as important as my thyroid meds.

I take 4½ pills daily for thyroid, high blood pressure and colesterol. I take them all at once just before bed.

Hi @JLeslie! Thanks! It’s nice to be back (although “I” never really left). Good to be back in old skin. It’s always been good having you here.

Oh, thanks. :) I am seriously thinking of leaving, so your comment is very nice to hear.

This actually works in the direct opposite way for me. I never take my daily vitamin because I only remember to take it when it’s not around mealtime. And if I take it with me to take when eating, I’ll forget to take it.