Toothloss and Thyroid Meds? Help please.
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Hi everyone,
I recently was switch from Levo to Armour thyroid about a month or so ago and recently, probably going on 2 weeks ago, I've noticed a big sudden change in transparentcy of my two front teeth. I'm not talking about just the edges of my teeth, I'm talking about like it's going up mid-center of my two front teeth, something I never had. I went to my dentist and was thinking it was from grinding my teeth, but after inspecting my grinding movement of my jaw, he says that the front teeth do not touch each other, indicating it's probably not the teeth grinding that is causing it to become that badly transparent. I asked him what else could be the cause and he said it could be from the Radio active iodine treatment I had months ago or from the meds I was taking.
I'm very scared and wondering if it's from the Armour thyroid meds, from the levothyroxine, from just having hypothyroidism itself, or from a serious vitamin D problem. I have heard both Levo and Armour can cause toothloss, tho the reports of Armour causing tooth loss seems very very low. I really want to stop this right away and cause atleast damage as possible to my teeth. Please help.
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shellyC19 PRthyroid
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I would say as an educated guess, you have a low Vit D level. Many women back in the olden times had tooth loss after pregnancy and they did not have good vitamins then. Both my grandmothers lost teeth because the baby needs calcium as it grows and will pull it from the teeth if it has to.
As we age our bodies stop being able to take Sunlight and diet and make Vit D. They can test you by a blood draw for that level, so you may tell a GP or Endo doc that about your tooth. The test is not normally done and takes about a week to do. It has to be ordered by a doctor.
Please get the best VIT D tablets you can afford and see if it helps. I hope I helped you.
barbara98940 shellyC19
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PRthyroid shouls get a blood test first, if able to see GP or Endo, soon. From what I have been hearing it can take months to see a doctor in the NHS system.
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