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How can I tell if I'm taking too high of a dose of my thyroid medication?
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Posted , 6 users are following.
How can I tell if I'm taking too high of a dose of my thyroid medication?
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I am no expert, but I believed I was put on Levothyroxine when I didn't need it all because of the TSH. I was extremely well feeling and walked 2 miles a day/ 3 days a week. I felt like a race horse on the inside after my first doses and they were low. Essentially I was becoming physically crippled and weakened, that was seen as needing more and in one year I had low grade high BP when I had exceptional BP prior I believe due to the drug ( Mayo Clinic supports my theory). I read on threads women begging for thyroid replacement and damning anyone speaking against control in thyroid replacement. The truth is the TSH is a really poor test because the health community see it as the gold standard and definitive dx tool. It is only one piece of the puzzle. It identifies some thing needs correction, but it is far too easy to replace and profitable to boot. Your problem could be need for magnesium selenium, or zinc, but these items are cheaper, don't require a prescription, but try and get practitioners to first screen these levels. Intergrated practitioners do, but most often these charges are not covered by most, almost all insurance plans. I personally went through this with my mom, so I am not talking off the top of my head. Most health problems we suffer from are related to some type of imbalance in our bodies! We are like fine tuned computers only more amazing. Insurance companies do what they can bill for and doctors sadly practice more of staying employed than healthcare. "Healthcare" has become more of "Health captive". You are lucky to have found this site. People are generous in sharing, not every one is perfect, but they are more truthful that your PDRs and other drug information sites. I thought I was smart, but I naively got caught up. After over 4 years of an steadily increasing hell I finally did my own research. I started with "class action suits" not to sue, but to get information beyond the highly paid for gloss. I was horrified! It lead me to consumerreportts.org for my alleged problem and that got me here. I felt angry and betrayed cause I had known my doc since he was an intern, but getting better and realizing he is stuck in this ugly system helped me get past it. It think that is why you are seeing in some areas docs moving away from these insurance company organized practices the problem is the cost is prohibitive because of the insurance industry which rakes in a full 50%+ in all monies spent for "healthcare" for their profit. Health is a precious blessing never hand yourself over completely to anyone think, read, and talk to others. No one person is likely to have all the answers. Be well and God bless you.
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Olive everything is interdependent in our bodies and that is why it is hard for anyone to give you a definitive answer. Most people are commenting on their experience. The one important thing I think is important to remember not all sx you feel are necessarily a new entity unto its self. The problem we have in "healthcare" vast- too many doctors don't practice uncovering primary ailments and unbalances in the body and correcting them. Doctors operate using "protocols", directives bought and paid for by the Medical Ass., Big Pharm, , Grandiose labs, and the Insurance Industry. Some help many do more harm than good. Sadly "healthcare " is more a business industry than a caring do no harm entity. I hate very much saying these words because for me it has been a lesson hard learned . Be the captain of your own ship: think, read, and talk to others, not just one person a number of people. Most important "don't live in fear, live in God" it is the very best advice I can give you. About the magnesium thing I understand it affects our parathyroid, but like another contributor I can explain the specifics.