Fatigues symptoms and conditions

I am taking Levaquin one time a day, 500 mg. for diverticultis. I have fibromyalgia so attributed symptoms of EXTREME FATIGUE to that but this is fatigue like I've never known. I can't do much of anything. I don't work outside the home so will just deal with it if it cures my infection. I'm using sleep meds too...but that could be fibromyalgia kicking in too. But fatigue is much worse. I hope it kills those bad bacteria!

Wow! So glad and sad to find other sufferers. I wish our doctors would listen to us and take us seriously! Why are they stuck on forcing Synthroid on us? At this point, I think I'd rather not take any Synthroid. I stumbled upon this site while looking for something I might take to counteract the effects of Synthroid. I had to halve my 112 mg pills because of the side effects: frequents headaches, bloating, weight gain, irritability and anxiety, dry mucus membranes (eyes, nose, throat, etc.), allergies, muscle fatigue, achy joints. Of course, my doctor is slowly upping the dosage again, because my TSH is chronically high, but I feel like sh*t, physically and mentally. I used to feel so much more normal and like myself before I was diagnosed and "forced" to take Synthroid.

Dear Linzi,

Firstly throw away your pill packet, i too was just like you i went to the er three times thought i was having a heart attack and it was just full blown anxiety attack and the other lovely numbness side effects of this poison.
I too couold not work, thought i was going to die in the middle of the night, had constant death thoughts, could not cpe etc.
THERE IS HOPE, this week i am 10 weeks off this poison they call yasmin and i am feeling sooo much better. The anxiety is a lot better, the paranoia is all but gone and when ifirst was off yasmin i could not even walk past my letter box i was so fatigues and could never work out why. It took me weeks of just waslking slowly each day ( to help my anxiety) and then this past week i have managed a 5kilometer walk each day with my children (CHRISSY you would be s proud) and i am feeling like i am getting my life back. IT IS SLOW and that first two months if it were not for the girls here i dont think i could have done it, but think of it this way you stop the pill, and then you just let your body recover. If you continue taking this pill then its just another day, week month that you continue to let this hell control your body.
antidepressants are not the answer , try something natural, are you living in australia, if so i will give you some names of the things that i took, i understand you feel you need something but trust me give yourself a few months and you wont be 100% but you will be on the way to being you again.

Good Luck
Lisa
p.s all symtoms are worse at ovulation time and te week of your period remember that.

and thanks to all the girls that have constantly been there for me i could not have come this far ( and i have a way to go) without you all.......

I have been on Levoxyl for several years, and it is the only medication I can't live without. I can give up my oral diabetes meds by going low carb, my allergy meds and suffer the hay fever, but Levoxyl is my friend. My levels are low normal, borderline if you will, but I have had muscle fatigue since I was a teenager. When I started the med, I could climb stairs without aching, style my hair without my arms trembling. My thin hair filled in and though it is fine, it is full of volume. The pharmacy switched me to the new generic and within three months, I was aching, my hair was thinning, I was 35 and felt 88. Switched back to the brand name, and am well again. The only negative is I have to drink a LOT of water to stayhydrated, but have to do that w/ the diabetes anyway. Alot of the sideeffects I'm reading here sound like dehydration problems. The anxieties, the fatigues. If you aren't drinking your 64oz of water a day, try it and see if it helps.