PLEASE HELP!!!!

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Registered: 09-06-2004
PLEASE HELP!!!!
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Mon, 09-06-2004 - 10:08pm
Hi I am Amy and I am 25 years old, just newly diagnosed with Hashimotos thyroiditis and I am on levothyroxine 125mcg and I have tried taking this every different way possible. I work in the health care field and I ask my nurse co workers all kinds of different questions, but none of them could quite answer me, and my question is what is the difference between the med that I am taking verses this Armour drug? I feel really cloudy in my head and I am unsure about my TSH level, I go to the dr on the 10th of Sept, cause I feel anxious and can't sit still, but I have no energy to get up and move. Does that make sense? I can't concentrate on anything, and I get real sleep towards the afternoon, but when I feel sleepy and grogy in the afternoon its like another person has taken over my body, I get real mean and grouchy, I hate feeling this way cause my kids are the ones that I am mean and grouchy with. I yell alot at them and anything sets me off. I take my med at night before bed cause it makes me nauseated. I can't eat during the day if I take it in the morning. I have tried taking it with food and first thing in the morning. I don't know what to do, or the questions to ask my doc. Please help me for the sake of my 4year old and 1 1/2 year old!!!!

With much thanks!!

Amy


Edited 9/6/2004 10:38 pm ET ET by sweetexan

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iVillage Member
Registered: 09-06-2004
In reply to: sweetexan
Sun, 09-12-2004 - 1:02pm
Thanks but never got the article. I went to the dr and he said that I am going to stay on the same meds, but go down to 100mcgs. He is taking more blood and checking my t3 level and cortisol along with my t4. he is having the results mailed to me. He never told me the levels of the last results.He wants me back in a month. I do feel better now that he decreased the level from 125 to 100. But I still feel real anxious, sometimes, but not all the time, I mainly feel it in the mornings when I get up, he said that this might not be the med for me, but he is going to check the levels.
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Registered: 11-09-2001
In reply to: sweetexan
Sun, 09-12-2004 - 10:02pm
Hi - I'm sorry you never saw the post!! When you get the results back from your new blood tests, be sure to ask what they are. That way you can come here and we can see what they really mean!! :) It's good that your doctor is doing more extensive tests. I hope you let us know when you get your results. Cathy :)

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