Witts end symptoms and conditions

I've been on the same dose of Levoxyl (118 mcg) for 11 years and I have none of the side effects that have been described. My mother and grandmother also have hypothyroidism, but my mom take 110 mg of synthroid, also prescribed by the same doctor that prescribed me. When I was in the 4th grade my thyroids swelled to the size of golfballs, so much so that you could see them when my head was up, and I was extremely tired and had hot and cold flashes- scary for a 10 year old! My doctor recognized it immediately, and put me on Levoxyl. About a year ago, I gained 15lbs for seemingly no reason, but then this summer I lost about 20lbs. The only difference was taking the medicine 1 hr before I ate anything. I saw someone said that after taking the medication she would get hungry, which I also have, but this makes sense, because Levoxyl is in essence trying to up your metabolism and by doing this you are burning more calories and thus become hungry. If you let this hunger pass, about 20 min later you are no longer hungry and feel great! I still get slight hot flashes, but not too noticeable. I would recommend just as other on here have, that the dose that your doctor may give you may not be 'your' number, and to give it time. If you change your dose, give it 3 months, not 5 days like I saw above! If you have to wait 6 months for 2 dose changes isn't that better than hurting your whole life? GOOD LUCK!

Thank you for the support. My Regular Dr. and I talked last month and just thought we would give getting off yasmin a chance. I went to see my Dr yesterday. I took some of the responces from this site to him. He was shocked, asked to keep them and was going to have all of his nurses read them as well. He was so glad that getting of the medication helped. I even got a woo whoo out of him. I think he was at his witts end. He was not the one that perscribed Yasmin to me. That was my gyno. I did see her during all of this and told her what my Doc had me on and his ideas. She never once said anything about yasmin. I think that I am going to send some of what I have found here. As well as the website. If she doesn't know about these side effects she needs to. And if she does then I may be finding a new gyno! I know for a fact that this was not a pre-existing condition. I just erge everyone to listen to your body and if you feel these symptoms keep in mind that it may be the yasmin. I know that medications effect everyone differently, I just find it odd that there are so many of us here with the same problems!!! My Dr did also!