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Hi, I am 32 and have just been diagnosed with an underactive thyroid. Been put on 50 mg but after about a week starting to get muscle aches, upset stomach. Did anyone else experience this? also feel really tired!

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  • lelita80176
    lelita80176 Guest

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    Hi, I started on levothyroxine 2 weeks ago 50 mg...Initially, I felt a little better, but now I feel just as tired and foggy...I am so frustrated....I am ready to get back to my old self...How long should I wait before I inform my doctor that I haven't noticed any changes...

     

  • iris23
    iris23 Guest

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    I was diagnosed a couple of weeks ago and taking 50mg.  I also have upset tummy and the runs for a couple of dys. Also this is 3rd night with restless leg syndrome and can't sleep. Like you I'm really knackered. When will this get better. Wearing poor hubby down with being miserable.  Is RLS connected to hypothyroidism?
  • iris23
    iris23 Guest

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    Yes I am much like you. Sore arms and legs with added  creepy feelings in my legs on going to bed. Upset tummy with the runs too.
  • varger
    varger Guest

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    Same here, been on meds for 5 years, doctors just tell me that it is apparently my depression causing these! It's a vicious cycle, I'll nag them for blood tests, they come back normal -  no action.
  • tim31456
    tim31456 Guest

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    Hi, im 39 years old. i was diagnosed with hyperthyoridism 8 years ago and put on antithyroid drugs for three years and finally i was given options to go for a surgery or radio active iodine treatment. i choose the later one and became hypothyroidism after the treatment. i am taking 100mcg of thyroxine since then. Recently, my blood results showed low TSH and T4 and my GP prescribed me to with increased dose of thyroxine. I was bit surprised because this had never happened before so i analysed my entire eating habits which i have alter in the last year and found out that i was consuming too much soy milk. did you anyone have same results with the consumption of soymilk? i mean does the consumption of soymilk or products have given different blood test results?
  • patricia71464
    patricia71464 Guest

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    Ive only been on levothyroxin over 1 yr. Thank God they found this for me. I have to have a blood test often, like 3 mo. Before I was sooo sick. Ive lost 40 lbs in 2 yrs. I had 75mcg , then boosted to 88mcg. Another blood test and back to 75 mcg, but she checks it often. You mean micrograms right, not milligrams. That's way too much. Please make sure you have the smaller mcg, because I understand a small amount goes a long way. I also found out hypo or hyper thyroidism is padsed down or thru familys. Find out which parent or cousin or sibling also has it. My Dad, my 2 female dbl cousins and their brothers' girls. Go to an endocrinologist because they specialize in your glands.

    They recommend taking it in the morning on an empty stomach. It didnt work for me. I take it at night, about 9pm, before bedtime, but your dinner is pretty much processed. Its not easy to get balanced. Find that doctor who loves his job, his patients and will connect with you. Someone that treats you before the side effects check in.

  • Gillian433545
    Gillian433545 Guest

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    Yes I did. The doctor told me to halve it to 25 and I did. Felt better and my system then adjusted

    I then was able to increase to another 25 making the 50. It is a gradual process as your body adjusts

    .Hope this helps

    You will feel better as your body has to make major changes

  • tony_92886
    tony_92886 Guest

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    I am a51 year old man I have been on throxine for 18 I have high Bloodpreashure know trying to controlle it with Diet losing weight etc does anyone know is there a link Between tavckeing throxine a high Bloodpreasure  I am really going for it lost eight pounds in five days will keep going how ever is my throxine not helping Bp 148/90 was when I started on throxin125/75  then last year it was 128/80 then it jumped to 148/90 was 156/ 89 today when I went two get my Zbloods done
  • carol40244
    carol40244 Guest

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    I take one day of Levothyroxin 100mcg tab and going take pain medication and by acdent picked up took another bill of Levothyroxin. will be ok. and alot side effects?
  • tony_92886
    tony_92886 Guest

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    I have been on thyroxine for about fifteen years was on 50 mg to start with Then a few years later 75mg five years after that 125 mg then 150mg just this December Dr cut me back two 100mg one day 150 every other day anyway I get cakes and pains all the time just lost over a stone in weight went to theDr on the 10Bloodpreashure up 148/90 got it Down By losing weight changing my Diet and Drinking Beetroot juice Bloodpreashure know115 /68 so a lot off this hipe were the blame is put on throxine is Down two the Pearson you will get pains if your a overweight high Bloodpreashure as well getting the pounds off helps and a good diet fish ,fruite ,jacket spuds,whitemeats will help 
  • claire53416
    claire53416 Guest

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    Hi, I have been on levothyroxine for under active thyroid for a year now and within a day my eyes had swollen up and have been really sensitive to day light. At first I thought this was hayfever. The dr has said they don't believe it is the medication and have referred me to the eye hospital. I also get swollen toes and ezema in a patch on my throat. All of these symptons go if i stop taking he tablets and i have also tried liquid version which makes my eyes worse and add blurriness into the mix. Has anyone suffered with the reactions?
    • barbara98940
      barbara98940 claire53416

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      I'm intolerant to corn (US name is maize). Maize starch is in all the synthetic thyroid meds. I got eczema and itchy and was slightly swollen when I was on thyroxine. Liquid thyroxine made me swell up so that my fingers were double in size - and that was after one 5ml dose!

      I switched to ThyroGold & eczema etc went away. It can be bought over the internet without prescription.

    • claire53416
      claire53416 barbara98940

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      Hi thanks for your reply. I have been to my dr and asked if i can be tested for a reaction to corn but she said I have to be tested for a gluten allergy is this the same thing? Also did you have the problems with your eyes as well? That's the main symptoms that is getting me down my right eye has been so bad for a year and it looks like i have a lazy eye :-( Do I need to let the dr know if im switching to thyrogold? Sorry for all the questions!
    • barbara98940
      barbara98940 claire53416

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      Hi, ask as many questions as you like. I will answer them if I can, though do remember I'm not medically qualified, my answers come from my experience of having hypothyroidism for the last 35 years. Re ThyroGold and telling your doctor. It would be good to say first you don't feel well on thyroxine and have these symptoms. Then I would follow with I would like to try Natural Desiccated Thyroid. Can you prescribe it? If he says no, then say you'd like to try ThyroGold that you can get without prescription and would he support you by running the blood tests? If he's says no, then I couldn't possibly advise what you should do (though I know what I would do, and it involves meekly making an exit and...).

      Gluten and corn allergies are not the same thing. I suspect he's trying the gluten one first because it is easy to diagnose. I tested negative for Coeliac and positive for wheat on the RAST test. I have a corn intolerance not an allergy as I didn't react to the allergy skin prick test for corn. I was talking to my pharmacist and gave him a list of all the foods I reacted to and was lucky. His wife is a consultant paediatrition who specialises in allergy and intolerances in children. He took the list away, spoke to his wife and came back the bext day and said it sounds like you have a corn intolerance. I then followed an exclusion diet to test this theory and I had. I can't even eat some sugars because they have glycerine/glycol in them (both normally derived from corn). I stick to unrefined raw cane demerara sugar (Aldi and sainsburys sell it). Do speak to your doctor about the lazy eye as that can be a symptom of something else (sorry, I can't remember what).

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