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

[stella5349]

Just trying to get a tally on our members on what medication they are on?  

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33%

 (39) 

Synthroid ONLY - not generic but BRAND NAME

32%

 (37) 

Generic Levothyroxine

18%

 (21) 

Armour Thyroid

15%

 (18) 

Other ( List name on post)

115 Members voted

[redheadaussie]

Aussie thyroxine named Oroxine. (Also made by the same company and the exact same   tablet is Eutroxsig)

[Thypatient]

Levoxyl - another brand named levothyroxine, like Synthroid.

[stella5349]

Yes Thy - I forgot to add that to Synthroid. Please also include Levoxyl on the Synthroid poll please.

[RavingMad]

Hmmm - had 2 vote 'other' as I'm currently weaning off thyroxine/oroxine/eutroxsig while I'm introducing natural thyroid extract (similar to Armour).  Feel heaps better already!!!

[anca77]

Synthroid and Armour

[lilypad300]

Synthroid. . . . .137

[BB8911]

Synthroid

[laura1967]

Armour here............and liking it....hehe!  I had my doubts because I thought it was too good to be true, but I honestly can say it has helped tremendously. I am still working on fine tuning the dosage even though I am at optimal levels pretty much.

[MKlacza]

Armour.. still trying to get that dose, but almost there I believe..

[mirabella45]

Methimazole

[pep88]

Levothyroxine + Cytomel

[LoriD1966]

I envy you. I just started my journey last month with Armour. How long did it take you to get to your optimal level?

[kitty9309]

Levoxyl

[Cynnieb4]

Synthroid

[Red2008]

Levothyroxine 100 mcg daily here for me.

[selmaS]

waiting game...no meds.....

[Barb135]

Synthroid only, waiting for optimal dosage.  Started @ 100 mcg, dropped to 88.  

[Smilerdeb]

Thyroxin (aussie name Eutroxsig, Oroxine)
Started at .25mcg
then up to .50mcg
then up to .75mcg
then down to .50mcg (hyper)
then back up to .75mcg doing well.

[bizwiz12751]

Synthroid 175 mcg & Cytomel 10 mcg

[t63]

Nature-throid 1.5 gr

[mudkme83]

Levothyroxine .050 for now. Second time on it. Had been on armour once as well. Never been optimal yet.Still awaiting labs.

[stella5349]

Armour thyroid

[blksapphire]

Synthroid 100/112

[Rite760]

Still on nothing!!! But living in hope that 1 day I will finally  get something!

[bharrod]

Synthroid doesn't work and I have a ton of proof to back that up, or I wouldn't say it. Ask me for the proof. And if Armour doesn't work for you, then you are not dosing it properly or you have adrenal insufficiency.
Mia

[bharrod]

I have a normal TSH, and was diagnosed with hypothyroidism, you must find a doctor who doesn't go by TSH and instead goes my your symptoms alone.
MIa

[AR-10]

bharrod, you are totally uninformed on the merits of levothyroxine.

Post this ton of proof you have, or quit posting BAD info.
Many of us here take a levo product and are living proof that you are WRONG.

You have been brainwashed by one website, that is full of cr*p, and your assertions regarding levothyroxine are untrue and without merit.

[AR-10]

I take Levoxyl, a form of levothyroxine, as is Synthroid and several other name brand T4 products.

[AR-10]

bharrod, please start a seperate thread and post this ton of proof you have. I'm tired of hearing the erroneous info you post.

You have proof, post it. Start your own thread. there is no reason to drag this thread further off course with your broken record assertions that are false.

[laura1967]

Saying that Synthroid never works is an incorrect statement and shouldn't be made. I am on Armour, but would never say that synthroid "never" works. It works just fine for some.....and not so well for others. I tell you what though.....if synthroid was the only thyroid med available, it would save your life. When synthetics don't work, it is because that person has conversion issues....thus they need both T3 and T4 med. The bashing of these other meds is not ethically correct here at this forum.....we are here to encourage each other not to fight each other. Everyone has an opinion and is different. Just like everyones bodies and treatments are different.
Remember the golden rule....EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT....so their treatments are different.

[5thave]

Armour thyroid 2.5 grain plus 15 drops of iodine daily.

[bharrod]

I have tried to post the documented proof that I do have, but the moderator keeps deleting it and sending me emails telling me not to post web links on here. The articles and studies are much too long to copy and paste on here, and they are copyright materials. I will gladly give any of you the information I have, just contact me.
Hypothyroidism is almost always the body's inability to convert T-4 to T-3. so when you give a patient T-4 they do not get "fully" better. Yes you may feel somewhat better yes, but I will bet my right leg that you still have some residual symptoms on T-4 only meds like Synthroid. The only way to get fully better is to fix what is broken, and what is broken is that our bodies CAN NOT and WILL NOT be able to convert T-4 to T-3, so the treatments will not work. So we skip the T-4 and go directly to the T-3 treatments, with amazing results. Armour is only one drug that works, there are others, I say Armour for information purposes only. ANY desiccated natural thyroid hormone will work, but not man made ones like Synthroid. I have a ton of family and friends that have their healthy skin back now, their healthy hair is back, no more constipation, so more mood swings, depression anything. All healed up thanks to a natural hormone.
Ask anyone who is on a desiccated natural thyroid hormone, like Armour, how they feel, they are the living proof and they even lose weight and lots of it, with little to no effort too :-)
I am not going to argue over this, the proof is out there, you must search to find the best treatment for you. If you are doing WONDERFUL on Synthroid, then keep taking it. But if you are taking Synthroid and it's not helping ALL of your symptoms, then why not try a natural hormone like Armour? What do you have to lose at this point?

If you have tried Armour and it didn't work, then either the dose was ramped up way too fast, or you have adrenal insufficiency, you can read about adrenal insufficiency any where online, but I have found that Johns Hopkins Hospital as the best information on that.

Take what you want, and throw the rest out.

Mia

[ChitChatNine]

The poll is merely a poll .. asking what med we are on .. not which works better.  Let's refocus and get some more voters out here!

C~

[graveswoman]

PTU

[Jillybeen222]

(Just started Armour so far so good 60mg.) from 100mcg levothyroxine for 11 yrs.

[kipland]

Levoxyl

[shasana]

Daughter, 15-
Methimazole

[underinformed35]

synthyroid and cytomel

[Super_sally888]

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.

[spouse40]

synthroid 125, finally seeing an endo tomorrow, very excited but nervous he is my last hope!

[Applecore]

synthroid 37.5

[mtkst13]

112 synthroid
of course, that'll probably change again after my endo appointment on friday.

[LittleMarie]

Levothyroxin 75mcg and estradiol 1mg.Don't think i will ever be able to try armour. I am allergic to mammal.

[dai3symae]

50mg levothyroxine.  

[Totie]

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.

[Charline181]

Levothyroxine 100mcg started today

[scarlett39]

Just raised dosage of Levothyroxine to 125 mcg from 100 & 112 mcg (alternating days.)

[Kipp44]

neo-mercazole or carbimazole - just started though

[Me967]

Levothyroxine 25 mcg.  Started in April but not totally sure yet that I need it.  LOL  Grrrr.

[Jules77733]

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!

[johncp]

150mcg of levothyroxine.  feeling hyper over the past few days.  appt. thursday morning.

[estrelinha]

Waiting, no meds (I have Hashi)

[Linda1068]

synthroid-- 25mcg

[Avallon]

Armour smells like roadkill.

[huncher]

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.

[huncher]

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.

[saradcreecy]

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!!  

[SeriousSam]

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?

[Lala1969]

Synthroid 100 mcg daily, changed from Synthroid 125 mcg every other day.

[Rachel4]

Just started Levoxyl

[lilypad300]

oops, I voted twice. . .I didn't realize that I voted back in november.

[laura1967]

Bumped for newbies! lol