Comments | ruchel: Thyroid

ruchel

Thyroid

Aug 25, 2009 20:00

Blood test exams are back. Everything is fine on paper. BUT. BUT. Last time I had my thyroid levels checked, they were at 1 something. Now they're at 3 something... while it's good up to 5 (and some say up to 7/10) it's still a higher level, basically doubled... just when my mom told me my cuz is on daily thyroid treatment blah blah. I thought ( Read more... )

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my_fair_kadie August 25 2009, 18:19:12 UTC

How long were you on the Levothyrox for?

ruchel August 25 2009, 18:26:35 UTC

1 or 2 weeks. Gosh it was horrible.

my_fair_kadie August 26 2009, 00:28:55 UTC

Probably. Those medications need 6 weeks in your system before they work properly. It sounds like you weren't on the right dosage though. I am on Synthroid, which is like Levothyrox, and every time I get blood tests done, they increase my medication. It always sucks for the 1st few weeks but after that I feel normal again.

sophiaah August 26 2009, 01:05:58 UTC

I'm guessing you have a thyroid problem. Do you have underactive or overactive?

ruchel August 26 2009, 18:48:12 UTC

My thyroid became underactive after my daughter's birth, and took about a year to be normal again.

sophiaah August 26 2009, 22:56:31 UTC

I have an underactive thyroid too! Haha I don't know what the exclamation mark was for, it's not really anything to be excited about.
I've had it for about 4 years are so.

Do you still have to take levothyroxine? And how many mcg's?

ruchel August 27 2009, 12:09:13 UTC

I only took it for a week or so, I was even more tired! The stuff basically went away on its own with some homeopathy to... apparently it's common after a baby to have a sucky thyroid for a year or so...
LOL for the exclamation mark stuff!!