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219609 tn?1210348114

Test show normal

Ga7
My latest test show normal,,I had TT 20 years ago,,been not taking medication for 18 of those years,nedd doctor insisted I get back on it..Well i did and have felt terriable ever since..Taking brand synthroid 175 now..My test have shown TSH of 1.0,,free T4 1.9,which think is little high..needs to be 1.8 or lower..my tsh has been below 3 for months now..I feeling very tired,,sleeping 10-12 hours at a time. come 5pm every night very light headed on standing,,or walking.Lot of muscle pains in my feet..I showed a small cist on my Adreanel glad last year and saposed to get scan again next week,to ckeck to see if it had died off..Im changing to Levoxyl,for this seems to ease muscle pain,but cant bet the fatique. B-12 at 310,little low,but shots and pills dont help. Im at wits end here.
Im about to stop taking meds again for I always felt better with out. Any words here..other then keep with it,it will get better,,
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259041 tn?1206482847
I'm so sorry you  feel so bad. Like the doc said, if you've had a total thyroidectomy, it means you aren't making hormone anymore,how could you go on all those years without it? Unless your thyroid grew back? The meds do have side effects though, that's the problem.I think my pinced nerve pain is made worse by the Tapazole I take for Graves. Whenever my dose is increased, it hurts more or starts hurting again. It doesn't happen to everybody but if you read the side effects of  all of these meds, muscle pain and or nerve irritation is one of them. I don't know what the solution is.
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97953 tn?1440865392
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
If you have no thyroid, you need some medication - -sometimes too much medication can make you feel poorly, so a dose decrease may be worth a try.  Without a thyroid, stopping the medication altogether can be life-threatening.

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219609 tn?1210348114
Ga7
Just wanted to add, I have never had any of the hypo symtoms,,weight gain,,hair loss,or really any fatigue,to speak of,,matter of fact my finger nails and head hair grow pretty fast ,but less now since i been taking meds,,felt fine with high tsh,and no meds,,terriable now with normal tsh and meds,,like i said before i have tried them all,natural,and T4 only.
All my life seems ive been oposite to things,,uppers bring me down,,downer bring me up..










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219609 tn?1210348114
Ga7
I have no thyroid,,my labs at the beginning were TSH of 118 over a year ago,,18 years ago it was 300,still did not take meds then,,felt fine,Doc told me your felt ok then because you were young,,29 then,,now im 46,and my ths had come down on its own with out meds,but he said the readings are different because the lab standards were different back then..Im having worse problems now on lyvoxyl..tiredness is worse,but no muscle pains,,have to take synthroid to get at least some energy,,but put up with pains..tried armour,,puts me through the roof..even by breaking it up..
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259041 tn?1206482847
Hi! it seems according to your labs you should be feeling hyper symptoms. Your free t-4 is at the top of my lab ranges. The fact that you feel hypo symptoms is strange, unless you are feeling the effects of what your labs WERE when you started on meds. What were they then when the doc said to start taking meds? Maybe it will take a few weeks to stabilize. That's a pretty high dose, isn't it? Your labs are more hyper but your symptoms hypo, unless it's side effects of the med. I would think a doctor wouldn't medicate you unless your labs were out of range.I'll be curious to see what Dr. Lupo says about it. Good luck hon!
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