To Graves Lady

[pjgovitz]

Hi,
A while back you answered my post synthroid vs levoxyl, and gave me the ingredients in synthroid, today on the phone I asked the nurse to have him change me or lower my dose of synthroid, and he wants me to stay where I'm at until my app't next week. I know a week after taking 137 synthroid I have bloating and some other issues that are uncomfortable. whaty happens when you take synthroid. I'm thinking of insistng he change me or put me on generics to see if I tolerate them better. I have to go for a two hour glucola test this week also. somehow this all ties in to autoimmune. RAI 5/18 for hashitoxicosis, resumed 1/2 dose of synthroid (137) May 25 June 3 resumed full dose. Iwas on 250 last year from Feb-June..was overdosed, and I think I've gotten a sensitivity to it now. I would've preferred him to start me back on slowly but he does not seem open to listening to me, he's the best endo around the area and I would have trouble changing, he's very respected, but man it's hard to trust someone you see every few months and has HIS own ideas on how you feel...If it's just my body adusting to the meds any idea how long this should take?

Thanks!
Pam

[GravesLady]

Next weeks see if doctor will switch you from Synthroid to Levoxyl, if that is your wish.  They are both the same except in ingredients.  Synthroid has lactose where Levoxyl doesn't.  Two of the symptoms of Lactose intolerance/malabsorption  are bloating and diarrhea.

Secondary Lactose intolerance/malabsorption  occurs when the small intestine decreases lactose production after an illness, surgery or injury to the small intestine, as well as from other intestinal diseases. And I would certainly conserder thyroid disease as an illness,  permanent illness. This type of lactose intolerance may last only a few weeks and can be completely reversible. However, it it's caused by a long term illness, it may be permanent.

Thyroid disease affects most bodily functions including food uptake and processing. The rates of absorption, processing and waste removal are all affected in different ways from of any number of things can get out of line. There may be a relationship between lactose absorption states and changes in intestinal motility in patients with Graves' disease. So, you may not be able to tolerate the lactoes from Synthroid in which just might be the cause of your problems.

However if Lactose intolerance/malabsorption to one, probably Lactose intolerance/malabsorption to another,  like food and other drugs. Many other conditions, including stomach flu and irritable bowel syndrome can have similar symptoms, as well as some foods and drugs.

So switching from Synthroid to Levoxyl may not solve a 100% of the problems, but it should help ease some, that is, if it is from Synthroid.  Hey worth a try!

Hope this helps.

Thank you for your faith and confidence.

GL

[pjgovitz]

Thanks for your reply, that makes sense to me, there are alot of foods and other meds I avoid...and then after a while it gets better.  I am going to ask him to try changing it. I have a two hour glucola test later in the week then I see him next week. You said it had sugar in it before, I seem pretty sensitive to sugar right now too.I wonder why they need to put that stuff in?
Makes you wonder..

God Bless,
Pam