May 7th
2008
2:04 AM
I have been on Synthroid for 12 weeks now. I have been experience extreme leg pain and knee pain on one side. Now my ankles ache in the morning and my elbow is starting to hurt. My doctor thinks there is no relationship of the synthroid and my joint pain.
-- By nel16 | Reply | (1) replies | Private Message me
March 4th
2005
7:49 AM
Those of you that are feeling terrible side effects with synthroid, check out (with you doctor of course) adding T3 (cytomel) to your medications. Synthroid is T4 which some doctors claim that's all you need but often that is not the case. With sythroid alone I get very sick.
-- By jah4377 | Reply | Private Message me
October 29th
2004
9:04 AM
I have already entered side effects but I forgot to mention that I am taking a pill with two medications in it one is called levothyroxine and I am also taking 50 mcg of this medication.
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June 30th
2008
5:05 PM
I was diagnosed with graves disease last year, I had a really acute case that turned me into a total nut job.
-- By mostrovsky06 | Reply | (2) replies | Private Message meIn 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...