misc.

[kaberett]

Item the first: I am absolutely become, apparently, the kind of person who gets Mildly Cross about not taking cheesecloth with them when they travel for more than about a week. (I'm still not buying the 10m roll.)

Item the second: this means I'm using up some of the milk-as-needs-used in a slightly experimental loaf of sourdough, instead of just turning it into paneer for dinner. (This has the bonus that I don't need to get my act together when A is actually in the house; the sourdough's generally happy with filtered water than with mains water, as recently mentioned, and while we have a filter jug at home out here we've only got A's filter-as-it-goes-along water bottle.)

Item the third: I was most of the way through mixing this up before I remembered I'm not supposed to eat calcium at breakfast.

OH WELL.

Comments

[halojedha]

What's the deal with calcium at breakfast?

I know I should take my iron supplements in the morning and my calcium supplements separately and later in the day, but I didn't realise there might be a separate reason to not have calcium at the start of the day other than that clash.

[kaberett]

Short version: calcium inhibits levothyroxine absorption, so one oughtn't to take it within 4 hours of taking the thyroxine, because that way your thyroxine dose has a chance to get properly digested. Mayo Clinic; a miscellaneous academic paper; BNF.

(Note that iron is also In Theory supposed to be taken with a significant buffer between it & thyroxine -- HOWEVER GIVEN that you're stable with your current dose regime it is Probably Wise to Not Alter That & also to flag it up to whoever's in charge of your endocrine care at the moment.)

I'm increasingly contemplating solving this problem by taking thyroxine at night, instead; I *try* to have dinner early enough that it ought to be fine if I take it last thing, given that that seems to work just fine...