Synthroid to Levoxyl switch-opinions please

[kitty9309]

I am switching from Synthroid to Levoxyl because:

A.) I am hoping my big, fat tongue is due to something in the Synthroid and

B.) It is cheaper and I have no Rx insurance.

I saw another thread about a Medication Rant and was curious. I saw at least a couple of people say they like Lexoyxl better.

What about it did you like better?

Is your dose of Levoxyl equivalent to the dose of Synthroid you were taking? I read on another forum that Levoxyl is better absorbed and I wonder if this means a dose adjustment.

[kitty9309]

I was just able to get on the Armour site.I typed Armour thyroid in as a search and it came right up. I don't know why it wouldn't come up for you . Try it as a search.

I think the hotdog thing is a joke. Armour is a brand that is known for it's hot dogs.

Pernicious anemia is also an autoimmune disease and is more common in autoimmune thyroid disease.

[Thypatient]

The one on the list I wonder about is pernicious anemia.  Based on what I’ve read, anemia is something to think about when dealing with thyroid disease.

Holding down the ‘Alt’ key and pressing ‘1’ on the number keypad to the right of your keyboard will give you the smiley (make sure the ‘Num Lock’ is off). The rest of the keys, ‘2-9’, are: ☻ ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ • ◘ ○.  They don’t always reproduce though.  I recently used the heart one on an on-line obit to express how much I loved a past co-worker who died.  It was suppose to say, ‘I ♥ ed Abby’, but came up as a ‘?’ of all things.  In other words, it was like reading, ‘I questioned Abby.’  Can you imagine?  I had to write and ask to redo it.

Does anyone know why when I try to bring up the Armour Thyroid website it never works?  I’m still into seeing if they talk about the hot dog connection.

[shauneegirl]

Sorry about that, he is really rude to me, and I am just trying to ask you a question.  UGH!

Well anyways - thanks for the info.  I really appreciate you looking that up.  I am going to try the synthetic t3 and t4 together, maybe that will work alittle better.  I cant imagine how they could really control desicated pig thyriod and I wonder if its making me fluctuate to much.  I have been studying this for years, its really confusing and there is so much conflicting info.

[kitty9309]

Found the site. Thanks again!

[kitty9309]

Thanks for looking that up!!

What is the website you found this on?

I am certain I don't have most of them, but some remain a possibility.

My endo actually ADMITS that there is much that is unknown in the thyroid world, as well as medicine as a whole. He is an out of the box thinker, without coming off as whacky.

[Squirley777]

I got this from the health line web site.  This hypothyroidism business is so confusing and  know from asking my endo questions even they aren't sure of the effects it has on us. They are the so called experts and we are their lab rats. Thanks to others here I have learned more about this thing than my endo knows.


Possible causes of tongue swelling:

Acromegaly
Allergic reaction to food or medicine
Amyloidosis
Angioedema
Beckwith syndrome
Cancer of the tongue
Congenital micrognathia
Down syndrome
Hypothyroidism
Infection
Leukemia
Lymphangioma
Neurofibromatosis
Pellagra
Pernicious anemia
Strep infection
Tumor of the pituitary gland