I have been taking Armour (60mg) for quite some time now and every time I try to increase the dose I feel terrible.
I seem to have enough energy on 60 mg but still have other issues such as dry skin (hands and arms) and weak and burning muscles to name a couple. I was on levethyroxine for about four-teen months and really felt it was making me sick, that’s when I asked my doctor to switch me to Armour. I was really excited to get on the Armour and truly felt it would make me feel better because I had read it just works better. I found out later it does work better, it works better on me in that it makes me feel even worse than the other meds.
The biggest reason I am asking now is that for the last couple of weeks my legs have been KILLING me. My leg bones feel like they are on fire and the more I have to walk or move around the worse the pain. My leg muscles feel weak and kind of burn when I do something as simple as get up and walk to the other room. If I have to hold a tool or do some work with my hands the base of my thumbs and fingers start to ache and I can barely use them. The muscles in my lower back stiffen up and start to hurt at the first hint of any lifting or stress. I have been is so much pain for the last few weeks that this can not be good and it seems to be getting worse rather than better.
The more thyroid medication I take the worse I feel and if I don’t take ANY thyroid medication I feel GOOD for a little while but that catches up with me and I start to feel bad again so I just take the minimum I can tolerate, but that doesn’t seem to be enough.
Can someone offer some insight? Am I allergic to the meds? Does any of this sound like extreme lack of thyroid meds? What gives, I don’t think I can live another twenty years feeling this bad.