Why can't I take this drug???
Diagnosed with hypo, doc gave me .050 synthroid but I got horrible headaches, shaky, shortness of breath, chest pain, couldn't sleep...........doc reduced me to .025 but same thing......started taking 1/4 of the .025 pill a day and felt ok, enough to - 53% more...
Synthroid Side Effects
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First off, blood tests are a waste of time, if the lab finds your TSH is OK then they don't do any more tests! You should always go with your SYMPTOMS not your blood tests, after all what may be the right levels for you could be very different from t - 66% more...
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Lvothyroxin and foot pain
My father-in-law has been taking Levothyroxine for about 3 years. He has noticed and increase in foot pain and aching. When he has accidentally forgotten to take his levothyroxine, he reports and decrease in foot pain and aching. He has now since sto - 35% more... -
I have been taking Synthroid for several months now and I also have developed sharp, shocking, unbearable, tortuous pain in my fourth toe of left foot. The pain is so unbelievably strong that I have to SCREAM on top of my lungs and then when it FINAL - 78% more...
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Same thing happens to me but the stinging pain is in my toe. I say YES it's due to the medicine. I have stopped taking my thyroid med and feel WAY better already. What a difference
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Synthroid brain fog, eye sight, chest pain, fluttering heart, medical journal
Hello To All, I too am on this med, I have been on it for 1 year as of July 2008- 35 pounds, brain fog, headaches, eye sight for reading, chest pain and fluttering heart beat. My doctor who is my friend has told me that he will up my dose... "De - 48% more... -
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I love my Synthroid. I've been on it for 15 years after brief times taking Armour and Levo (generic). I feel absolutely Hypothyroid without my daily Synthroid. I take 175 mcgs. I've been on 150 mcgs for at least 7 years and loving every minute. Recen - 65% more...
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I was OVER MEDICATED for 10 years! My symptoms were same as yours! You need less thyroid NOT MORE. Find a different doctor! I trusted mine for many years. I thought my weight gain was do to LOW THYROID when it was in fact, DO TO HIGH THYROID MEDS!
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Synthroid pimples, low thyroid, natural hormones, adolescence, thyroid
3 weeks of taking synthroid pills, now im breaking out in pimples on the face and chest.IS THIS NORMAL????? -
It may not be "normal" but as your body transitions from low thyroid to a more appropriate level, the natural hormones in your body will be changing and this can cause pimples. Think of the process of returning to proper clinical levels of - 51% more...
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Synthroid bone and joint pain, heel spur, arm weakness, leg weakness, foot pain
Foot pain, to the extent that I cannot touch the bones in my feet. I had moderate heel spur pain which became extreme when I tried to resume the synthroid, even a minor 25mcg dose of synthroid. Bone and joint pain in the past made me stop taking the - 52% more... -
u need to take calcium pills and iodine. I know this for sure.
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Synthroid low thyroid symptoms, thyroid drugs, thyroid medicine, swelling in legs, thyroid gland
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 - 91% more... -
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I have heard this about the old Synthroid being great, why would they change it if it was working?? MONEY!!!
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I have heard the same thing that the old Synthroid was great why di they change it MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Synthroid and no iodine?
My friend recently had her thyroid removed along with a rather large pre-cancerous tumor. She was told to cut ALL iodine out of her diet and as even stopped using iodized salt and to take any other minerals hours apart from her Synthroid. I know iron - 37% more... -
Synthroid side effects
I was on Synthroid for about 8 years, and found it was giving me severe pain in my hip. My doctor was uninterested and said this was impossible, so I found another doctor who listened (even though he didn't believe me either) and he switched me to El - 55% more... -
HI, I have been having hip/leg pain for more then a year now and i take synthroid. i had no idea this medication could cause anything like this but now I'm reading all this side effects online, i can not believe it. i will go to my doctor and talk ab - 49% more...
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Synthroid meds, thyroid
I was diagnoised with thyroidism 3 months ago and have been on synthroid. My throat is still very sore as it was before I was diagnoised. Why, I thought thyroid meds was supposed to correct the problem?? -
Synthroid rapid weight gain, stress symptoms, adrenal gland, hormones, anxiety
I have been on Synthroid .2 for 31 years. Recently I had to add 3 half doses to what I already take. About 10 years ago I experienced rapid weight gain, 40 pounds, in two months. The doctor's reply, "I highly doubt that!" I literally got up - 62% more... -
Synthroid low thyroid, perimenopause, whack, thyroid, paxil
Synthroid saved my mental well being and my life. When you first go on this medication, you can absolutely feel out of whack. First of all your body has to increase it's metabolism and is too tired to do it. It takes time for the hormone to be absorb - 74% more... -
Synthroid thyroid support, healthfood store, gaining weight, tsh, thyroid
I have only been on Synthroid for 2 months, but my appetite is out of control. I read that gaining weight might be a side effect of Synthroid. You would think that you would lose weight with it since it makes your thyroid run more efficiently. My TSH - 37% more... -
I don't trust Synthroid, and it doesn't take care of T-3, or the adrenals. Thyodine, by greenwillowtree.com, has helped normalize my thyroid, I was hypo. It also helps the adrenals at the same time and it's natural. I've been on it 10 years. I also t - 66% more...
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What was your t4 or t3 before you started the medicine? I was 0.44 for my t4 and 3.7 on my tsh, so that makes me HYPOthyroidism. but they just tested me again since ive been on the medicine for 3 weeks now and im at 0.45 tsh and 1.1 on my t4 so now i - 9% more...
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Tongue and mouth tingling
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Go to your doctor and ask him/her to put you on Armour thyroid. The last few months that I took synthroid I was a mess. I was so irritable, stayed hot all the time, could cry at the drop of a pen, no energy, had a mental tag that no matter how hard I - 41% more...
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hello ive been on this medicine for 3 weeks (but the 75mcg) and ive lost 5lbs. I had the hardest time losing weight but now Im doing good. Do you have hypo or hyper thyroidism?
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Will Synthroid make you gain weight?
My TSH is 4.03. From everything I've read, that is in the normal range, but still shows that my thyroid is slowing down. I've always thought I may have a thyroid problem. My father has a thyroid problem too. Anyway, I talked my doctor into prescribin - 66% more... -
Synthroid muscle and joint pain, endocrinologist
I started taking synthroid in November and have experienced severe muscle and joint pain. I took myself off of it! I can't wait to see my new endocrinologist on March 3rd. By the way, I haven't taken it for two weeks and I still feel absolutely awful - 1% more...
