Started on levothyroxine
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Please advise as after being on this levothyroxine 50 for 2 weeks I feel lousy. My worry is my legs below the knee hurt me like my bones are aching. Also constipation like you wouldn't believe. Is this the norm ? Also do I need to change my diet as not been on a diet for a while after being diagnosed with under active thyroid. Any advise please ?
Dawn x
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jean34329 dawn_38361
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Please go through the constituents of this drug including the fillers and additives. I have just discovered that the magnesium tablets that I have been taking contain maize. I am intolerant to this horrid substance.
Maize is incorporated in many medications as is GLUTEN and AMARANTH and ASPARTAME.
Jean
shellyC19 dawn_38361
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My name is Shelly and I am a nurse in the USA. I have Hashimoto's thyroid disease and it makes me Hypothyroid.
LEVO is a thyroid replacement drug and it takes about 6 to 8 weeks to build a proper level in the body.
Some symptoms of low thyroid are: Weight gain, feeling cold, muscle aches, feeling depressed, dry skin, brittle nails and constipation, hair loss. There are more but these are common.
The medication needs to be taken on an empty stomach and some of us with thyroid problems have low Vitamin D. This can also cause muscle aches. You should have a ferritin level drawn along with a mineral panel, if you are low it will effect how the hormone works and gets absorbed.
You should take a good multi-vitamin daily. Also give the LEVO a chance to work and build a level.
Diet: Drink lot's of water, it keeps your bowel hydrated. Warm fluids like just HOt Water have helped with constiaption. Watch carbs as they can make you bulk. No junk foods or soda. Apples provide good fiber and salads allow good roughage in the bowel. Avoid Alcohol, as it is pure calories.
Doctors tend to start you at a low level to give the body time to adjust to the hormone and over time, it may need to be adjusted upwards in dosage.
I hope this helps.
Shelly
jean34329 shellyC19
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So if you have an intolerance of this then ...
I have recently discovered I have an intolerance to wheat, soy, maize, yeast, cows milk.
Also amaranth and aspartame both of which are not only in foodstuffs but also used as additives and fillers in medicines.
Amaranthis also a food colourant found in gravies and sweets.
dawn_38361 shellyC19
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Thank you for caring x each reply makes things clearer for me.
Kind regards
Dawn x
barbara98940 dawn_38361
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rachael29549 shellyC19
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shellyC19 rachael29549
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Some people swing back and forth between Hyper and Hypo and then the thyroid settles one way or another.
I had that for years, then it made me Hypo so, it is protocol to replace the hormone with Levothyroxine and then they draw blood and check the blood level and can adjust the medication if needed.
Keep us posted on how you do,
Shelly
LAHs dawn_38361
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If your T3 is low (this is the active hormone) then you need to inverstigate why. There are a series of minerals and vitamins which you will need in your body to make this very important conversion e.g. Magnesium, Zinc, Selenium, Ferritin, Vitamin D and other things, but that is a start.
T3 is the hormone which gives you energy and a feeling of well being, without it you will feel as you do, and as I felt for 2 1/2 years.
If you do not find a deficiency in any of those, switch to NDT (Natural Dessicated Thyroid), I switched to Armour (an NDT).
Keep us posted.
jean34329 LAHs
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Jean
barbara98940 LAHs
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LAHs barbara98940
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I can reduce it to zero temporarily after eating hot spicy food with red wine. I am slowly trying to find out which element of this dinner clears the tinitus. My first suspicion is that it is the garlic or one of the other spices activated by the wine. But, as yet, I do not know for sure.
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shellyC19 annas
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TSH normal range is from 0.34-5.60 and the middle would be 3.0
Some doctors like it in the 2.0 range.
Stay well,
Shelly
sabrina1971 jean34329
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