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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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Liz
So glad to hear you will be back on a branded name. Generic is good for some medication but never for the thyroid. If your levels look good, then the weight gain might be from the Zoloft. That is a side affect of that drug. Make sure you are taking your thyroid med first thing in the morning and wait an hour before you eat. My endo said that if I get up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, to take my med so that way I can eat in the morning without having to wait. Let me know how the levoxyl works for you. I am on it an feel good.
thanks for confirming what I was saying. I actually learned that information in training for my pharmacutical sales rep job.
Thanks again,
Dyan :)
Hi My name is Ginger and I have graves disease which caused my thyroid to become hyperactive which we just found out back in Feb of this year as well as my liver levels keep going high. My G.I. doctor when I last saw him on the 12 of April had me on 40mg of protonix then he told me to stop taking them and my liver levels were normal and a week later when I saw my endo on the 20th of April my liver levels were high again. I don't know if it's my thyroid, the anti-thyroid meds that is doing this and if the protonix was helping to bring the liver levels back down to normal or not.
A couple of years ago I had they same symptoms as now but my thyroid levels and all then showed normal so I never saw anyone past my pcp doctor.
I am suppose to be seeing a surgeon sometime soon to have my thyroid totally removed and comman since tells me I will end up having to take the meds to give me the thyroid hormone since my body will no longer be able to produce it.
I must say it's all very confusing about the meds and with all the reading I've been doing of what others are going through is a scary thing too.
I'm not sure anymore than I want to have anything more done about my thyroid.
I'm already having enough problems with being hyperthyroid I don't know about it all turning around and me then being hypothryoid.
I want this all over with but my brain isn't working as well as it use to between the fibro and the thryoid giving me problems.
I'm already taking alprazolam for my anixity and it has helped the panic attacks I was having for the most part. I've been on it even before we found out that my thyroid was messed up and the fibro meds as well as having to take the Propylthiour 50mg 2 of them 4 times a day.
I saw where you work and know about prescription drugs and brand name versus generic. I'm on medicaid which a lot of times put me to having to take generics over brand names and have concerns about this and having to end up taking any other thyroid meds. Can medicaid be forced to pay of a name brand over a generic????
Does any of this get any better??????
What questions should I be asking all of my doctors????
At this time I don't feel in control of my own body anymore. I know a lot of that has to do with the thyroid messed up but it seems the more I research the less I'm understanding and the less sure of what I'm doing.
I'm sure other can relate that have already been though such.
Sorry this post is so long. The past few days have been rough and I'm just tyring to cope...
Hi Ginger,
I don't really know much about Graves, as I had Hashi's...but...Are you seeing a endo?? That is who you should be asking questions like, what is thyroid surgery going to help? Will it get my levels back to normal? If your thyroid is removed, you will be on thyroid meds forever but honestly it's no big deal. I take it every morning and get my tsh and t4 tested every 3 months. As far as medicaid having to pay for branded names, not sure about that but ask your dr for months worth of samples. The drug companies give them plenty to give them to patients like you. Just ask them, they will happy to give them to you if they have them in their samples closet.
It does get better with time and talking to your endo about your body and the way it is acting.
Stay positive and stay strong, it will get better but insist that a doctor get down to the root of the problem and stop prescribing so many different drugs to mask the problem.
Good luck to you...
Dyan :)
Hi Dyan,
Thanks for your response. I'm doing my best to keep an upbeat look on things. : )
Graves is an auto immune disease that attacks the thyroid as well as other things such as the eyes, ect...
Yes, I'm seeing and endo but he is in and out so fast that it's hard to get a question in even though he has done a great job of getting to the root of the problem with my thyroid and he is the one who told me I had graves disease. His nurse seems more apt to have the time to answer questions than the endo and he is very knowledgable as well. My endo did give me a paper when he sent me to the eye doctor about the graves and eye conditions.
The eye doctor doesn't think at this time my eye will get worse but it can say they will get any better.
Even though my endo is rather quick to be in and out he really seems to care and know what he is doing and always does the blood workup before he ever changes meds to make sure I am getting the correct amount and not to much or to little.
I have had so many test done that they have to file an extension with medicaid now to just get paid to do any more cause I'm over my limit for the year for lab work. In total I've had 3 cts as well as all the blood work one could think of ever having done and I have my lab work done before i see my endo every time i go.
I do need to see if i can get copies of all the lab work so i post them with those who understands such things and see be able to keep up and see where I'm at.
I didn't even think to ever ask to keep a copy of the lab work for myself as I don't really understand what it all means to begin with...lol
The first time I saw my endo he had me checked for everything under the sun before he even started me on any antithyroid meds. The first one was the cousin to the PTU and I had a bad reaction to it and I called the emergency number and they got me in the next day and did a lab workup and then he changed me over to the PTU and I seem to be able to tolerate the it but for the long term and with having medicaid surgery seems to be the better and cheaper option to put an end to this even though it don't mean the Graves is going away at least it can't continue with my thryoid.
I just found out today my appointment to go see the surgeon is May 7th so I will know more then if they will be taking out my whole thyroid or just part of it. I go back to see my endo May 16th. I planned on writing down all the questions I should be asking so I can ask them. My endo did ask me if I had any questions this last time but my brain just seemed to go blank and I couldn't think of a single one.
I know having my thyroid being hyper is adding to the anixity that I was already having cause I was doing a lot better till my pcp nurse wrote down the lower doseage from what I had been taking even though it should have been right there in my chart.
also having the fibro along with the problems the thryoid has been giving me has made the brain function harder for my memory otherwise i would have doubled checked the prescrition before i ever left the doctors office. I'm just on pain management for the fibromyalgia and do my best to only take those at bedtime.
My pcp doctor is the one who put me on the generic xanax as I have had problems with my nerves all my life and it was after I ended up with a bad panic attack and in the er that my doctor did so. I was doing good when I was on the 0.5's but this last trip in to see my pcp doctor to get a refill and I guess his nurse wrote down the wrong one cause I didn't even notice till after I had the prescription filled that it was the 0.25's so it's not helping as much with the anixity as it was before. I figured I would tough it out this month and go back to my pcp to get the dosage back to 0.5's if I'm not doing any better with the anixity.
There are days now that I do have more energy and I am not having the tremors since I have been on the PTU so it has to be helping.
I'm just so ready for all of this to be over with but it is a scary though of going from being hyper to hypo and hearing how so many still have so much trouble with the hypo symptoms and medications.
I am glad to hear that it does get better with time. I just have to make it through all the rough spot first. : )
Thanks,
Ginger
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