Im very very extreamly mad... just got my doctor check today and he gave me my recipe to get my new dosis its a lower dosis thou... I had 150 and he encountered that it was ok..and low... so he took off 50m less.. now im 100.. then next.. when i got my dad to the pharmacy he took my medic insurance plan .... and he asked for a month tablets full of my pills... and i SWEAR i read Synthroid cuz its the ONLY pill i take since i was 2 months old... yeah... literaly.. ive been taking it since i was new born now im 20.. bout to be 21 and they gave me LEVOTROID and Im pretty mad cuz the pharmaceutic CHANGED MY RECIPE when I KNOW IM NOT SUPPOST TO CHANGE THE pill for anything Even generic... Bleh.. i hate generics.. always did and always will.........what should i do in this situation?
There is now an alternative med. It is called Tirosint. I got this from the Tirosint site.
"Tirosint is the first and only T4 in liquid gel cap form. This pure formulation consists only of T4, glycerin, gelatin, and water. Unlike some tablet formulations, Tirosint is free of dyes, gluten, lactose, sugar, and alcohol."
Of course if you also need T3 in your meds, there are the NDT types, like Armour, and Nature-Throid.
hi,
i know you posted this years ago, and i hope you have taken yourself off of the synthroid, because i just started taking it myself and it makes me nauseous about 4 hours after taking and that sick feeling would ruin my life i have tried the generic and the non generic and BOTH of them made me sick.
it is the fillers they use that are making us sick, not the medicine, and i am a little outraged that they dont put something more organic or natural in the pills or just make pill smaller and put the ingredient we need and forget the filler for gods sake.
so what are my choices? take a pill that makes me nauseous EVERY DAY OF MY LIFE or dont take a pill and be tired and lethargic EVERY DAY OF MY LIFE, gee, what to do???
They are the same thing. Synthroid is a brand name of levothyroid (same as Levoxyl). You didn't post what your lab values are so I can't tell if you might be hypo or hyper, either. I have only ever been on synthroid but I know there are a number of people on this board that can't tolerate synthroid or a specific generic brand and have had to make a switch until they find one that agrees with them. All brands of levothyroid have to have the same amount of thyroid hormone in it but vary when it comes to the binders, fillers, coatings, etc. which can bother some people. My surgeon said that they like to try a person on a specific brand for at least 6 months at a therapeutic dose and if the patient still feeds lousy to switch to another brand. So perhaps another brand would work better for you (assuming that your tsh, t3 & t4 are in a therapeutic range).