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~~~ Simple POLL~~~~ What THYROID medication are you on?

Just trying to get a tally on our members on what medication they are on?  
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499534 tn?1328704178
Bumped for newbies! lol  
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393419 tn?1228447393
oops, I voted twice. . .I didn't realize that I voted back in november.
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698356 tn?1240150727
Just started Levoxyl
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Synthroid 100 mcg daily, changed from Synthroid 125 mcg every other day.
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My mother and niece are both on levthyroxine for different reasons but this is perhaps one of the areas I have to profess extreme ignorance.

What are they differences other than name brands?
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I have only been on Armour for the last few months after trying what seemed like every other thyroid medicine out there with no success.  I was on Synthroid for at least a year and my level would fluctuate crazily up and down like I wasn't even taking it sometimes.  Levoxyl was the worst for me because my body just would not absorb it for some reason.  It was the last medicine that I was on before Armour and I was taking it regularly when I was supposed to and my level was over 50!  I have no thyroid after a total thyroidectomy in 2003, so I always wondered how I was supposed to get the T3 to be T4 on my own.  Armour has been a God-send!  I am feeling excellent since I have been on it.  I have also started losing some of the weight that I have gained over the last four years of fluctuating levels of thyroid hormones.  I really like that I take two doses per day - one in the morning and one at night.  I really feel like I wake up easier in the morning and sleep better at night when I am taking two doses versus taking the one big dosage.  Armour all the way!!  
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665587 tn?1265946924
PS to my last post.
I never had any thyroid issues b4 this goiter thing. So I have no starting point or experience to share.
Don't know yet if I need radiation or not.
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665587 tn?1265946924
Just had tt on 11/18 and was sent home with : Synthroid 0.125 mg//     /then under that it says: Levothyroxine_125 mcq.

I was diagnosed on the partial thyroid surgery that I had papillary carcinoma (fully contained in the thyroid), now after this one he said we have to wait and see it this side invaded the blood
vessels. He said the lympth nodes looked good.

So the above is what I'm taking....don't know why or how they determine the amount.

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Armour smells like roadkill.
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561964 tn?1283798616
synthroid-- 25mcg
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523918 tn?1244549831
Waiting, no meds (I have Hashi)
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150mcg of levothyroxine.  feeling hyper over the past few days.  appt. thursday morning.
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534785 tn?1329592208
I can't respond to this poll (not on thyroid medication even though I probably should be on Synthroid), but I couldn't resist commenting on how even the numbers are, at least right now...33% Synthroid, 33% Levothyroxine, 16% Armour, 16% other. Pretty neat!
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390388 tn?1279636213
Levothyroxine 25 mcg.  Started in April but not totally sure yet that I need it.  LOL  Grrrr.
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neo-mercazole or carbimazole - just started though
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Just raised dosage of Levothyroxine to 125 mcg from 100 & 112 mcg (alternating days.)
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Levothyroxine 100mcg started today
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TT back in 1994.

200mcg Levothroid for 12yrs.
175mcg 1yr
150
125
100 currently, don't like the way I feel at the moment on this dosage.
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479581 tn?1317757488
50mg levothyroxine.  
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Levothyroxin 75mcg and estradiol 1mg.Don't think i will ever be able to try armour. I am allergic to mammal.
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112 synthroid
of course, that'll probably change again after my endo appointment on friday.
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200220 tn?1361951554
synthroid 37.5
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synthroid 125, finally seeing an endo tomorrow, very excited but nervous he is my last hope!
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231441 tn?1333892766
I'm in philippines.

Only T4 officially available here.

I'm on a combination of thyroxine and dessicated thyroid (from Canada c/- a friend).  I use both because I can't easily get the dessicated or change the dose (one bottle has 500 pcs), so I have the dessicated as the base and then adjust based on TSH, FT3 and FT4 using the thyroxine.
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