Started on this medication

Your thyroid will not get better, this is why you take hormones to replace the ones that no longer are being made naturally. 

What vitamins are you taking? And are they top quality vitamins in adequate quantities to your needs. No multi vitamins. And non with iodine. Are you Hashis and are you gluten free?

Every person on this site has been through the traditional medicine machine, and yet here we are. Thousands of posts here. Thousands. Why? Because we’re still sick. We followed doctor’s recommendations and were still sick.  Period. If we weren’t sick and struggling, we’d be out living our lives instead of needing a thyroid support group. 

The standard thyroid treatment protocol is not effective for many people. If you read the side effects of levothyroxin, it can cause fibromialgya and other autoimmune diseases. 

Doctors give you the “solution” they have, which is a standard protocol.  Besides it being an issue for thyroid disease, a one size fits all approach to personal care is just useless. 

You’ll get the same answer from me as before. I wish I’d never taken this drug. I was on the same boat as you, only worse. I called the doc and they were like, we don’t want to hear from you for at least three weeks. And I’m like, but I can’t get out of bed and I’ve got a headache so bad, I’m afraid I may have seizures or a stroke. It took me a week and a half before I could drive enough to get to the doc. Instead of putting back on the NDT which worked better, they just spent two years trying to get the dose right. IT DIDNT WORK FROM YHE START!

Now, in addition to the still unsolved and yes, worsened thyroid disease, I also have severe bone loss, foot problems, arthritis, fibromialgya and other conditions. I tried to get the dose right for over two years, but it didn’t work, and caused my thyroid cyst to grow like crazy. I feel like this drug accelerated my thyroid disease, and caused additional advanced autoimmune disease that I will never recover from.

I know it’s hard. You feel crappy either way and there’s a lot of pressure because you go to the doctor and they’re like, I can’t help you if you won’t take this medicine.

There are alternatives. NDT (brand names Armour, Naturethroid, WP, NP, also others). The Natural Dessicate Thyroid meds don’t have the huge side effects that the Levo has.  FIND A DOCTOR who will prescribe NDT for you.

Yep I'm from England. The propranolol is for anxiety. In the summer I got glandular fever and it's just been bad from then on. The drs kept me having blood tests every few weeks. Saying my thyroid readings were not ok. But never putting me on meds. Until on Friday when they decided I had waited long enough. The vitamins I take were helping me. But they said you need this medication otherwise your thyroid will go completely under active. So I take that at 7 am then vitamins at lunch then propranolol in the evening. It's so frustrating because the Dr was so insistent on me having this. Plus my mum's friends daughter has the same issue she's on 25 mg I'm on double that. She said she had no side effects. The only side effects were feeling better than before. As for propranolol I did feel crappy on it at the start but now I just take it out of habit. I might try to come off but I've heard bad things can happen if you stop suddenly. Which in actual fact my DR told me to do. She said just stop them the dose is so small. But then you read on the packet do not stop suddenly. Just so confused. Sorry for rambling

I'm from Leicester England by the way I'm 24

Not sure of my thyroid numbers. Hopefully the medication relieves the anxiety then I can come of propranolol. I've been on propranolol since august. Also does thyroid make you feel unsteady or dizzy. That's my main problem

Feeling chronically ill I think leads to a lot of "depressed feelings" by people not depression. Your doctor works for you not the reverse, but you would never know it. Your doctor in the USA makes money with every test, referral, and prescription he/she writes from his/her employer, the INSURANCE COMPANY. Remember they are selling a product and the more product they sell the more the more  INCOME coming in! Doctors have become BULLIES promoting things they know very well promotes illness, pain , and disability. Perhaps not helpful to you Jelly93, but doctors have become people behaving VERY BADLY.. I know I have been a victim and you can read these threads and see people suffering and being told be patient or it is all in their heads! I have always been a descent steward of my health, but I fell victim. As I have been struggling this year I got a call from the hospital/insurance group my doctor works for reminding me I was due for tests  that I HAVE NEVER had out of choice. When I said I don't do that the response was Oh we will let Dr===== know. My doctor knows unless he is a morin and he isn't. See my insurance covers these tests at least in part and as the year is running out all they can see is revenue they are loosing. They call the activity "good cop, bad cop" the doctor hasn't been successful in the past selling these procedures in my case, so if they gang up on me maybe they can break me down. We have a bad situation in the USA plenty of people paying for crap tests and lab work they don't need and having no coverage for what they may need leading to plenty of suffering and dying! People need to stop trusting doctors like they were God and start trusting themselves. LISTEN TO YOUR BODY, USE YOUR HEAD, TRUST YOUR SELF. YOU WANT TO FEEL WELL, DOCTORS WANT TO STAY EMPLOYED.! I have had a front row seat to all this for decades now. I don't have a lot of answers, but seeing people abused by people they should be able to trust is stomach churning.