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synthroid and lackof sexual desire

Does synthroid contribute to a lack of sexual drive
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541234 tn?1266675097
i sent you the links to the soap humor read bottom up  hope the soap on the rope holds haha
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I do hope the recommendation on changing the med works.  It can be so crazy-making, can't it?

I do have some water retention, but honestly, nothing more or less than what was.

I definitely don't have a shelf but always wish I did.  All my food mishaps hit my lap!

Keep giving those drs a laugh, goodness knows they need it.
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541234 tn?1266675097
palpatations Got my most inopportune call from my ENDO after 5 hrs  battry almost dead she calls me in heavy traffic so i had to re GPS my route  first she said i don't see any messsage from the ENDO and i said well i called him at 6 pm and he said he gave you the message he could only remember to have me stop the 100mcg so here it is 24 hrs later and i was calling since 9 am and its now 4 ;30 pm in heavy traffic  she said did you start the trial protocal and i said yes i was on 100mcg for 2 days and my heart is tripping feelin faint sooo she said ok well let me look some more and i will call you back and finally she said ohhh here it is on my desk  stop your rx for 3 days and restart on  50 mcg and if you keep having heart palp its not your thryoid its your heart  sooo far my palp stopped  well ,..btw are you havin  water wt gain? it seems like  as soon as summer comes i feel terrible,  in the fall i'm fine the dr said  i have summer retention? but i swear my boobs are getting bigger along with everything else,, no wonder men say nice WATER BALLOONS well  at least now i know mines ol natural no silcon for me
so i don't bother wearing a bra can't find my size must be it  common size hahah so i wear those stretch fit shirt with the bra tube in them with a blouse ...WELL here she comes just walking down the street ... don't hit that tree !!  my ex inlaws joke with me still and when we go out to eat they said your napkin is in your SOUP  better in my soup then on the floor  they said you have another shelf on the table now i know how those woman ended up with soo many food stains on there boobs here i thought it was a hole in my chin  hope i made your day never a dull moment in my life if i don't make you laugh i'll make myself cry  oh i seen SSD drs tues during this most inopportune time to have palpatations so  and they sent me to the GP first  and the psychologist  so of course i din't have my muscle relzxer in me having palp getting lost with my GPS my stress was high and i started crying with the GP and then when i saw the psychologiist she asked me to remember 3 things ball blue table  well i rememvered BLUE BALLS and forgot the table so i guess i failed that test, she said do you feel suicidal and i said no  do you thinking about dying and  i said well dying sounds bettter then living with the price of GAS and food and  my limited pay check cause of my MVA injury i'm getting now wheres fast.. then i started crying and said here i am single injured in an mva dr wants to take me out of work and i can't do it so i am doing the bests i can and running myself ragged to this dr and that dr and this therapy and that therpy so i guess i am depressed wouldn't you be? she said do you dream and i said yes i'm always arrguing with my first husband  about the kids i should of stayed married and been free to come and go but i wanted more i guess i am depressed  is there mental illness in the family and i said yes grandma schitzo and hung herself my cousin has a lithium imbalamce spends money she said shes bi polor and i said i guess and ADHA  yes both of my sons and i guess i'm ADD i'm impulsive and will talk your ear off  or repeat myself 100 times to get it out of my system then i can relax so she said ok that will be all and i said you wanna give me prozac so i can learn to fly? she was shocked and i said what do you do? you have problems at home listen to ours and go home  feeling relaxed or more depressed cause you can't help? she tried not to smile and said i will write my report up and i have no way of known if you will be eligible and i saidi tks   wanna trade places?
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I'll search that one; it sounds like a funny.

I do hope what you're experiencing gets resolved.  It sounds frightening.

Make sure you drink plenty of clear water too.  I'm trying to do that myself because for some reason I'm leaning more dehydration this summer.

Keep an eye on those symptoms, continue to contact the dr if they seem too much.

Take care.
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541234 tn?1266675097
you take the cake with that one, i liked the soap dispenser one but you will have to google that one sorry father knows best pretend your a saint , thats my clue to you
well now to my serious stuff i started having palpations upon waking yesterday and today and they continued all day when i started day 2 of 100 mcg of synthyroid so i called my endo an played phone tag so i called at 6pm cause i was trying to eat dinner and my heart felt like it was speeding and if i stood up i would feel faint or something so i stayed sitting drinking propel like gatoraid hoping i was dehydrated like due to my stress of driving in big cities i have terrible anxiety and no sense of direction and even my GPS was HYPO today it took me to the wrong street  they said there are two streets with the same name so GPS did not work with me and with the price of gas i ws hoping my GPs would of helped me instead of making me a saint of words so i had to see the SDD MD and a Psychologist well i dint' take my muscle relaxer so i broke out in tears from this muscle pain and then i had to talk to a psychologist for SSD so i cried again when she said how are you doing and i just poured out my guts and said well if you were single and injured and no answers and battling pt chiro massage and working but you can't do your job i guess i'm depressed now so i said give me prozac and i will fly and be free and i said thats a joke but i reaaly need some sleep  cause i din't take my muscle pill so stay tuned for my updated  
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ummmmm, hmmmmmm, Are you SURE you are depressed?!
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Oh, what laughs!!!!  All the way through!!!!  (And this one almost pasted me by.)

Guess you need some Asian porn-star references.  Wouldn’t it have been hilarious if you had and he actually knew whom you were talking about?

Keep them blushing.  Then please report back here.  I need more laughs.

Hope the batteries can come off the charger soon!  On a serious note - I do hope things get resolved.

Here’s one for you:


It’s Catholic school and the nun has an audience of all the girls assembled in front of her.  She starts lecturing on the sins of you-know-what, as they sit frozen.

“… you must wait until marriage and it will be a mortal sin if you don’t…you’ll be plagued with guilt, have to do penance then straight to hell.  Now tell me, do you think all that pain’s worth ten minutes of pleasure?!!!…”

On and on she goes.  Then she snaps, “Do you have any questions about what I’ve said?”

With that one hand slowly goes up from the audience.

“…Sister?  How do you make it last ten minutes?”
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541234 tn?1266675097
more humor  Hmm my gyno called  both phones he must love me hahah and he said  your FSH and LH are very good dear you gotta along way to go before  men o pause  hits isaid good no sex tonite tks doc i needed that he said what you say dear i laughed and said men o pause he leaves me alone right he said very funny dear you   have a follicular cyst functioning cyst the size of a grape my ca 125 neg 2007 u/s said it appears to be unchanged, we can do another transvaginal US in 3 mos or 6 mos and I said why so soon if my ca125 is normal he said ok 6 mos then i said my mammo is aug and he said good we do it 3 mos make sure you are still ok i said  i really don't want john holmes that soon he said what you say dear i said my porn star he said i don't know who does you i'm only here 1 x week on monday  i said well john boy was a big boy and i am a nun  he never got it , so i said then my hotflashes and NUNISM is thyroid related  hes a chinese dr persae and he said nunism i said yea Do'nt want NUN don't ask for nun  so you get nun and he said haha you very funny lady you don't worry you  still have time and i said for what i'm a nun  oh sorry i thought you were single  and i said i am but my boytoy keeps trying to charge my batteries and they are on my recharger   he said you be ok dear soo my nunism has nothing to do with the gyno dept, so now i seen my gastro dr today hes ready to do a colonoscopy on the 15th cause i have pain in my left side and i told him about this gyno dr and my gastro is east india n so he said you do fine  i said well I guess i'm your personal pain   in your butt   he said no i put you out you not feel nothing and i said i bet you say that to all the girls look how we just bow to you and you have your way and we cna't say DO"NT stop  he said it takes 10 min you won't have time to say stop i said ok then give me an attends cause my IBS don't listen to me he said no you be fine and i said ok sure i will send you the bill when i clean my car seats its 45 min ride so i gotta laugh or  i would cry i get soooooooooooosick with these procedures! so i cn't blame it on my FSH hormones ,  i guess the thyroidians win. now if i could just loose some of this  hypo or hippo wt maybe i would be back to being a nyphno instead of a NUN  now whose depressed , good thing my BF is legally blind NOT BLOND cause i'm sure he would run if he could see where he was going  , its good we  are both HYPO together cause now hes gaining  on me! hope i made you laugh my other gyno and i were together 20 yrs so he knows me inside and out and  he stopped taking my insurence so i just met this new Gyno so i guess i can still make a man blush since they make me blush and more!
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393685 tn?1425812522
I was never a "swinging from the chandler " kinda gal even in my younger years. BUT since thyroid disease it is rediculous.

I feel like I have taken my nun vows.

Hopefully - it will get better.

I must add - I gained 40 pounds during the time I was so ill and unbalanced - Mentally I don't like what I see in the mirror anymore either - so for me I think it may be a little mind related too.
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jmbirds:  LOL!  ...sure hope that doesn't become a HABIT.  Thanks for the chuckle this morning, I needed that!

AR-10:  I didn't miss your laughs either!  And I know what you mean about those hormone panels.  I recently saw lab results my husband had done and at first thought it was something I had had done.

I too get the impression the issue is coming from the disease more so than the med.
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213044 tn?1236527460
I peaked at 18. :-/

LOL!!!

Maybe when we get our hormones in line and other deficiencies taken care of, it will change. It should, don't you think?

I mean...if you had that problem...

I was sitting in my Endo's exam room with my wife and the doc, having the initial consult, I think. The question of sex came up and I looked at my wife, and she looked at me...and the Endo said "OK" and started scribbling. :-/

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Well now I know why when I hit 30 and my husband kept telling me I was supposed to be at my "peak" it wasn't happening. Then I hit 40 and he said that maybe THAT was my peak. And we waited and waited AND waited.......STILL WAITING FOR THE PEAK PEOPLE!  I'm 41........maybe I'll hit it when I'm 70 and he'll be too tired to care anymore.
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277535 tn?1218136198
Ha!  What is sex??  I could care less if I ever had sex again....poor hubby.  

Darn stupid Hashimoto's....wouldn't it be nice to go back to my younger years when I had a sex drive!!

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541234 tn?1266675097
well my BF is on levathoxin 100 mcg and cytomel for graves diease he doesn't need no viagra to be fair, so is it becuz he's on a generic one?  or 34 yrs? compared to me  43 yrs on synthyroid .75 mcg and i am  trying to practice catholocism  smile Don't want NUN  Don't  Need nun sorry for my pun but i say that all the time so i can live  in this nunnery  but not  with those hypo symptoms  smile  . my gyno is checking my hormones since i could be peri-meno now  GREAT   never a dull moment ...
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479481 tn?1219708409
I agree with peggy64, it's definitley the disease.  Seems that everyone I know with this problem has the same issue with the sex drive, including myself.
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458072 tn?1291415186


not mincing words, just being polite and considerate....with such a delicate subject.

I take armour, so, Its not the synthroid...its the disease.
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213044 tn?1236527460
LOL!! Liz beat me to it.

And isn't it odd the way we mince our words. LOL!!
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213044 tn?1236527460
I notice nobody jumped on this one right away...

Hypothyroidism can contribute to a lack of desire.
I had my testosterone checked, and some hormones I thought were "female" hormones. Ya learn something new every day...    
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I don't know but, boy, if it did that would explain a lot in my life!!!!
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