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| Mon, 04-09-2007 - 5:37pm |
hello everyone anybody take levothyroxine for underactive thyroid..just started the drug it will be a week today did any of you feel hot alot and also sweaty? i ache all over and i am tired dont feel like doing nothing sleepy most of the day too..please reply soon..
hugs sherry

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Hello!!
The med you are taking is generic..I would call your Dr and tell them you want a script for a branded name thyroid medicine. Generic meds do not have the same amount of medicine in each pill. The FDA allows some variance in their drugs. The pharmacy might have changed your med to generic without asking because they get a bonus if they give generic. Ask for either Levoxyl or Synthroid. It might help.
Good Luck
Dyan :)
I will agree with the tiredness, boy do I agree! I have slept the better part of the past several weekends and I tire very easily. I work 10 hour shifts at work that wipe me out. They don't seem to understand that the 10 hour shifts EXHAUST me right me now. Wish I didn't want to curl up and sleep at the drop of a hat....LOL...
i read your reply thanks for letting me know that the generic is just as good as the name brand..so you have the tiredness too hah do you also ache all over in your mucles and joints because i have that too..iwill be glad when the meds kick in so i will fill better and i hope that for you too..this is awful to feel like this..well again thanks..write me anytime i have only been on the med for a little over a week now no change yet but i was told it takes 3 to 6 weeks to c a difference..well gotta go for now..
hugs to ya sherry
hello dyan2006
i read your post i have been on the generic and i went back to the docotr and now i am on the name brand starting tommrow morning synthroid i have questions for you when you first started taking meds for your thyroid how di you fill at first?because i am feeling really bad at this point i am aching all over sweating all the time and the last 2 or 3 days i have been sick at my stomach and my allergys are really kicking into high gear is this from the medicine? and how long before the med really starts to work to show an inprovement...i also fell like i have somthing in my throat all the time almost like indigestion..please reply soon as you possiably can..
thanks sherry
hello dyan
read your reply my age is 42..well since i posted i called my doctors office and he has taken me back of synthroid buy the way my phyicitrist well i can not spell tonight i hope you understand what i mean he is the onewho put me on it my pc doctor done the blood work but my other doctor put me on the meds but anyways i am going to get me a appointment with a specialist who knows what they are doing i think he put me on to high of a dose to start me out with 100mcg my mom and motherinlaw said he shouldnt have started me out on the high of a dose..well i guess i have bored you enough thanks again for your reply..
sherry
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