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What are these Dr.'s thinking?!?!?!??!! Hypo to Hyper!!!
So they tell you that you have a thyroid problem. They give you meds. But they WAY over guess the dose and send people in to hyper constantly! I've seen it day after day on this board! My pharmacist was shocked that my Dr. started me out at 75 mcg synthroid! When I called her feeling all crazy hyper, she said she doesn't know why these Dr.'s do it. She said that just that week she had 3 other people go hyper. So it's not just one Dr. that does it! And obviously by the board Endo's do it too! Why do Dr.'s just start REALLY low and work their way up??!?!?! Instead they send us ( already crazy people ) hyper! Not fun at all. Thanks for the vent! I feel for all you others, been there done that. UGH
hi I am going to start armour soon (going to new doc on june 10th).
My understanding with the armour is that you start off and up your dose each week,by 1/2 grain, until you reach 3 grains, then hold that dose for 4 weeks until you get labs. Oh and also I read that if you are having a hard time upping the armour it could be that you need adrenal support. Are you also taking selinium ? or any other supplements like iron or vitamin d to help the conversion of the t4?
My understanding with the armour is that you start off and up your dose each week,by 1/2 grain, until you reach 3 grains, then hold that dose for 4 weeks until you get labs. Oh and also I read that if you are having a hard time upping the armour it could be that you need adrenal support. Are you also taking selinium ? or any other supplements like iron or vitamin d to help the conversion of the t4?
MK
I told you about the temporary headaches with Armour - Didn't I...????
You have good and bad days -- just lijke "normal " people - Our bodies with or without a thyroid do not produce exactly the same hormones each and every day. So med induced levels ( that are always the same) will react differently sometimes.
I told you about the temporary headaches with Armour - Didn't I...????
You have good and bad days -- just lijke "normal " people - Our bodies with or without a thyroid do not produce exactly the same hormones each and every day. So med induced levels ( that are always the same) will react differently sometimes.
Dear Anree,
I dont have the answers but I do know that I still do this up and down buisness after six weeks on meds. Doc started me on 50mcg - tested bloods and increased to 100mcg. In some ways I feel better- not as cold and less joint pains - but they are still there! The fatigue eases of and then hits me again. As yet I have had no element of hyper (hoping not to!) - in fact still feel slightly hypo - but then I guess it may take a little longer for the increased meds to kick in.
They actually found some positive auto antibodies on my blood tests, and now that I have pushed a little with the doc he has referred me to the specialist. I do wonder if the left over syptoms are that with me? but I have to wait gawd knows how long to find out!!
Im sure we are not alone inhaving good days and bad- lets pray that lifts as we acclimatise to the meds!!
Love Manxie xx
I dont have the answers but I do know that I still do this up and down buisness after six weeks on meds. Doc started me on 50mcg - tested bloods and increased to 100mcg. In some ways I feel better- not as cold and less joint pains - but they are still there! The fatigue eases of and then hits me again. As yet I have had no element of hyper (hoping not to!) - in fact still feel slightly hypo - but then I guess it may take a little longer for the increased meds to kick in.
They actually found some positive auto antibodies on my blood tests, and now that I have pushed a little with the doc he has referred me to the specialist. I do wonder if the left over syptoms are that with me? but I have to wait gawd knows how long to find out!!
Im sure we are not alone inhaving good days and bad- lets pray that lifts as we acclimatise to the meds!!
Love Manxie xx
I have just decided to consider myself NUTS!!!!!!!!! Since Sat, I have felt AWESOME!!!!!! I mean fantastic. I mean what the HE//!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have no idea anymore and I sure am not going to tell my Dr that cause then he'll for sure not do anylabs or up the meds!!!! My headaches are gone and I have energy!!! I swear anree... I am just crazy!!!
I would like to know why we feel great one day and not the next. Shouldn't we feel crappy all the time if we are not at the right level? What I can't figure out is the headaches I've been getting! If it's not one thing it's the other!
You know my story just as well as I do....
I was hypo then hyper in the matter of a month and a half from just .100mcg of levothyroxine...in between that time anxiety and waking up with the shakes happened the whole entire time... I dont understand why we dont get started at like .25 or .50,,,, its very disappointing to be promised to feel better within a week and then feel like absolute S***
I was hypo then hyper in the matter of a month and a half from just .100mcg of levothyroxine...in between that time anxiety and waking up with the shakes happened the whole entire time... I dont understand why we dont get started at like .25 or .50,,,, its very disappointing to be promised to feel better within a week and then feel like absolute S***
Yeah... I swear my pharmacist knows more than my ENDO!! She gives me such good advice etc... They know more about these meds than our so called DR's!! I am a very low dose of Armour... I understand that this is protocol, but it sucks cuz I know I am going toward the HYPO!! So now by the time I see him the 9th, get the labs and then the results... it will be 3 weeks later and I will be even more HYPO than I already am!! Just lovely!!! Mine is weird... one day I feel great, like yesterday. I was able to be out from 10am-8pm feeling great!!!!! Went to a bball game, dinner and movie...Whats that about?? I mean if I were hypo, wouldnt it be consistent or getting worse everyday?? I had a cold sore this past week on the roof of my mouth and I was told that this can give you the achey, headache feeling. well the cold sore is gone and so is the hypo feelings. I am stumped!!
Because they're still practicing?
I don't know. Like you say, we see it all the time.
I had a med change a month ago. I was on 100mcg of Synthroid, and I SLOWLY went hyper. Instead of cutting me back to 88mcg, my Endo cut me back to 75mcg.
I'm pretty sure I will soon be Hypo, and then my Endo will probably skip right past 88mcg again and put me back on 100mcg. If she does, I will pitch a fit and the dose will be 88mcg.
But I shouldn't have to tell her how to do her job.
I think if they spent six months going hyper/hypo/hyper/hypo, they would be a little more attentive.
I don't know. Like you say, we see it all the time.
I had a med change a month ago. I was on 100mcg of Synthroid, and I SLOWLY went hyper. Instead of cutting me back to 88mcg, my Endo cut me back to 75mcg.
I'm pretty sure I will soon be Hypo, and then my Endo will probably skip right past 88mcg again and put me back on 100mcg. If she does, I will pitch a fit and the dose will be 88mcg.
But I shouldn't have to tell her how to do her job.
I think if they spent six months going hyper/hypo/hyper/hypo, they would be a little more attentive.
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