mdwagI have been taking levothyroxine.075 for over a year, have not had any trouble until about 2 months ago they took me off of Lyrica. After the lyrica was out of my system, I started to feel terrible. It started in my feet, they put 3 sets of shots in my feet, then I noticed I was tired, my legs felt like they would not carry me. I ached all over. The last straw was I was sooo hot, sweaty and then the headache and nausea. Just felt like I was dying a slow death. Finally I called my doctor, he said we needed to check it. Does anyone have any advice about different kinds of medicine or why it started acting up? Sure wish I would have thought of this a month ago. It has been a long couple of months. Any advise?
I have thyroid problems. Is it hard to regulate?
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- 12 Sep 2012 by mdwag
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- lyrica, thyroid disease, levothyroxine, thyroid
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endlessPred12 Sep 2012
Hello. How quickly did they take you off the lyrica? Was this carefully done with a physician?
Thyroid levels turning hypo can cause the fatigue, mood changes, and even temperature sensitivity.
However the other symptoms sound like the lyrica. The heavy legs, nausea, headaches are symptoms of medication withdrawal for Lyrica or some other medication. Your doctor may not have taken you off slowly enough.
please dont suffer any longer and see the doctor right away. Get your TSH labs and any other tests he suggests. Get an appointment with an endocrinogist to manage your thyroid condition. They do a better job than a general physician, I have found. Be sure to have a long talk with your doctor to better understand thyroid symptoms.
Stay in touch and let me know how this works out for you. Karen
meyati13 Sep 2012
There are lots of rumor and misinformation in here about Armour thyroid extract. Armour thyroid is made from American grown hogs and processed in the US. www.armourthyroid.com. For years Armour thyroid was produced in Phoenix, AZ, then the plant was closed down by the FDA and EPA in 2009. That's the main Armour slaughterhouse. Dried hog extract was imported from Canada, and you had to take a script to a compound pharmacy. I slowly became ill. My doctor told me it was pork extract, as I was worried about mad cow. No beef products come from Canada, especially for medical purposes.
meyati
13 Sep 2012
Before 2009- Armour thyroid was from beef. Forest laboratories, Inc now produce the thyroid. Their thyroid site does say that a person with thyroid problems should be very careful with anticoagulants, and it causes symptoms of diabetes. This answers some of my questions.
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Managing thyroid levels are very slow and when adjusting thyroid med doses, a new TSH is taken about every six weeks. Never, ever stop taking the medication as the body does not function without it and it can be deadly. Be sure to take exactly as your doctor says.
Always see a physician when you experience changes in how you feel. Be sure to let your doctor know all medications you are taking.
Finally, you did not state if you are taking any other medications, your general age, and/or other health problems you may be having. Do you still have a thyroid or have had surgery on it? These all contribute to the main picture and help with understanding what is going on with you.
Visit the thyroid site on the web for more information on thyroid. Or ask away. Or look up past questions on this site that will have interesting discussions. This is an open forum and plenty of information here. Many supportive people. Would love to help you more but need more information about you to be more helpful. Karen
No I have not had surgery on my thyroid. It took about a month and a half to come down off the lyrica. I have been off it for over a month. All the things that were going wrong I should have none it was my thyroid.
Is this the best medicine for thyroid problems? Some people talk about natural medicine, is it better? My doctor puts me on and takes me off my medicine, I have never been one to try and fix myself with something over the counter or natural. Not saying that some of that stuff may not work, I just take to much to mix it together.
My doctor called and told me to stop taking my thyroid medicine. They said my blood test showed I was being given too much. Can it cause the same problems if you get too much of the thyroid medicine in your system? I just do not want to feel like this. This is miserable, I ache all over, tired, headaches, nausea the worst thing is the sweating.
Thanks for the info. about you. More Natural products exist. They mostly come from Canada and the brand is Armour. My doctors say that each batch is slightly different than the last and there is always a potential for contamination like mad cow disease. This comes from cattle or hogs. My docs do not recommend it because of the variability of each batch causing the dosing to keep changing. We do have a few people who use it and think it is fine. Some endocrinologists will let a patient try it. Mine see it as high risk choice.
However, synthroid (levoxyl) has been used for decades and almost everyone uses it. There is the brand name and the generic. I have found that I have more problems with the generic because of batch variability so I get the brand only. The animal version is very similar to what we produce.
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There are no herbs or anything in the plant world to take, no matter what you might see on the web. The reason is that this is a hormone produced by animals only. The medication is a replica of the body produced hormone.
For unknown reasons one can take levoxyl for a year or more and all goes well. Then one day the body reacts differently. I have asked my docs and they say it is due to a metabolic shift. Could be an infection, stress, or completely unknown. Anyhow, that is why we see the doc when having symptoms and we get the lab tests and adjust the dose. and always get tested every six months or sooner. The TSH should be between .5 and 3.0 for you to feel well. Older tests used to have a higher range but has proven to not be right for a lot of Poole. Mainly if you feel good the dose is the right one for you.
Just be sure you take it half an hour before you eat every morning with only a glass of water. After that you can eat. Taking anything else with it changes the absorption and you will bounce up and down with how you feel because the dose is off. Food prevents full absorption.
The nausea, headaches and leaden legs are not typical results. There may be something else going on as well. Hope you get some encouraging news from the doc soon. Karen
When too much medicine you have very little TSH in your body. This makes you hyperthyroid. Sweating is a symptom. And feeling ill.
I am starting to wonder why you have a thyroid and he keeps taking you on and off the drug. Please see an endocrinologist. It does not sound as if you your condition is well understood by this physician.
Going off the med will return a higher amount of TSH and you will feel better. Is this for a week or so? Past that you may start going hypothyroid and then you will be exhausted and in danger of too much TSH. Trust how you feel and advocate for yourself to work with some other physician.
Thank you Karen, that helps me understand what is going on. I think he feels that I have gotten off some of my medicine and maybe that has made a difference in my thyroid. I have to go in on the 18th we will see what he says.