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I was diagnosed with graves disease last year, I had a really acu...

Posted at 5: 5 PM on Jun 30, 2008 by mostrovsky06, #31933
I was diagnosed with graves disease last year, I had a really acute case that turned me into a total nut job. In October after going through several thyroid storms and the doctors not being able to keep me stable with medications, I had a full thyroidectomy in October. I started on .100 mcg of levothyroxine and then the dosage was gradually decreased, I started having a lot of random body aches, mood swings, lots of muscular pains and no energy. They ended up raising my dosage and detected that I had a large vitamin D deficiency, after several treatments of taking 50,000 units of vitamin D, and also adding my levothyroxine dosage I started feeling better. I still have mood swings here and there, and feel sad periodically, but the last month or so I've been feeling more fine than I have in a long time. They have me on .170 mcg of levothyroxine for two months now. Last week I started getting headaches more frequently, and one of the times I got this nose bleed. This past weekend I got a headache, and then later that night I had another nose bleed. I don't usually get nose bleeds or this many headaches so I'm a little concerned. Also the last time I was getting headaches and constant nosebleeds was when I was really hyperthyroid. As far as the doctors go, I'm in between insurances and quite honestly I've been frustrated with both my pcp and endocrinologist...
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Reply about 1 month ago on Jul 04, 2008 by mayan2012, #9780

I have been on synthroid for 14 years. Never made the connection to why I felt so bad. Until I stumbled on this site. I will give the link and you can read for yourself, some very intersting info. Sythroid is the highest prescribe thyroid drug of all.

http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/?PHPSESSID=35e661206ff86a057d30b5c09ade0995

Put it into the address bar not the google bar....

cheers

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Reply about 1 month ago on Jul 14, 2008 by nancyadams, #10050

My mother also had Graves, and they later put her on levothyroxine, and she had problems the entire time. It was Armour that changed her life and mine. We found out that not only did we have problems on levothyroxine and Synthroid, so did practically everyone else we questioned. We found the site stop the thyroid madness and it changed our outlook on what medication to get from now on, and what labs to stop letting the doctor use on us!!

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