http://www.medications.com/effect/view/29112 I'd like to say that I think the Old version of Synthroid that existed before 1982-83 was MUCH better than what is produced today, I'd done quite well on Old Synthroid from 1975 to 1982 after RAI treatment for a bad case of Grave's disease when I was el Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:39:33 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/29112?item=6739 I just started taking levothyroxine (a version of synthroid) and gained 2 pounds in a week, while eating 1,200 calories a day. I'm eating this low calorie diet to lose weight for the summer. Right before I went on the drug, I was losing about two pounds pe http://www.medications.com/effect/view/29112?item=6739 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:43:00 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/29112?item=6740 I gained weight on synthroid / levothyroxine and absolutely hate it. I saw a better version of thyroid medication in an online Canadian pharmacy that contains T3 as well as T4. I think that the T4 variety of thyroid hormone (which is what's in typical thyr http://www.medications.com/effect/view/29112?item=6740 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:25:29 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/29112?item=9564 Sorry to read what you are going through. But I want to tell you that even what you call the old Synthroid was lousy. It's T4. T4 is simply a storage hormone and the body is NOT meant to live on a storage hormone alone. The thyroid makes not just T4, but http://www.medications.com/effect/view/29112?item=9564 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:38:38 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/29112?item=11802 I ran out of synthroid and I get it from PPA and Abbot was behind in getting it out. Being disabled I couldn't afford to get a prescription. I just put it in the Lords hands and was off it for a month; my dry skin disappeared and I felt better. I finall http://www.medications.com/effect/view/29112?item=11802 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:44:45 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/29112?item=21472 I have heard the same thing that the old Synthroid was great why di they change it MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!! http://www.medications.com/effect/view/29112?item=21472 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:45:30 -0400 http://www.medications.com/effect/view/29112?item=21473 I have heard this about the old Synthroid being great, why would they change it if it was working?? MONEY!!! http://www.medications.com/effect/view/29112?item=21473