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in reply to: nausea, loss of appetite, other symptoms on synthroid #1065681

I talked with my endo and he doesn’t believe that my symptoms are directly related to my thryoid and he didn’t recommend lowering my dosage since my tsh was 15 in my previous labs. I decided to see my GP to get another opinion on why I wasn’t feeling good. Basically had blood tested and everything was normal (except for thryoid levels) and she decided to give me a prescription to xanax. I have been taking 0.5mg for 3 days and now feel much better. I believe that my condition (hypothryoid) and struggling with this disease has just created some uneasy feelings that eventually piled up and let to more serious symptoms (nausea, loss of appetite, and metal confusion). I never had any emotional issues before being diagnosed with graves so I believe that they will go away once my levels are normal, but until then I’m going to take a xanax as needed.

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in reply to: nausea, loss of appetite, other symptoms on synthroid #1065678

ewmb,

Thanks for your reply. I will ask my doctor about that. Do you still have any of the other hypo feelings? I’m still experiencing tiredness, and now seem to have this slight confusion, nausea, and loss of appetite. So I’m not sure if I’m going hyper or if my body is adjusting or if it is something else.

Ski,

I know that you mentioned that the body can go through ups and downs while adjusting to a dosage. But does it seem common that I was feeling much better around week 3 on 112 of Synthroid and at week 4 I’m having new symptoms? It is becoming difficult for me to work with the confusion (not feeling all there). I have also experienced a rapid heart rate (120-140 bmp) for about 15 mins twice in the last week. My potassium was slighly low (3.3) so I’m on a potassium supplement (prescribed by my doctor) that I started 3 days ago, so hopefully that will help the potassium levels. But I don’t understand why my symptoms (low appetite, nausea, slight confusion, rapid HR) are showing up now. I want to become regulated ASAP so I don’t know if it’s best to "stick it out" or try to lower the dosage. Again, it’s becoming difficult to work with these new symptoms so that’s why I’m concerned.

Thanks

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in reply to: Eye Floaters #1066308

Update: The opthamologist that I went to didn’t believe that there was any connection between the floaters and my thyroid disease. She believes that I might have minor eye disease since she can see the white of my eyes between my bottom eye lid and eye. My levels are still out of range (TSH = 15) so I’m now on snthyroid 112 (previously on levo 100). I just have been able to ignore the floaters and can just hope that they improve over time. I recently purchased some polarized ray ban sunglasses that have helped when outdoors.

Thanks.

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in reply to: Too much levothyroxine #1066066

One of the symptoms that I experienced about 2 months after RAI (still hyper at that time) and yesterday was delirium. I just have this weird feeling that I’m disconnected and confused. If I drink water, oj, and eat a healthy salad that normally fixes the short term problem. Has anyone else experience this side effect while your levels were "off"? And if so, what do you do about it?

Thanks.

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in reply to: Allergic to methimazole and PTU? …RAI? #1067962

Hi. Thanks for the responses. One quick question…I posted that after the 1st day on PTU 3rd pill I drank 2 beers 45 mins before taking the medication. About an hour and a half I had small hives on my hand. Is there any chance that the beer and medication together produced the hives and there is a chance I wouldn’t be allergic without the beer? I’m probably second guessing myself and probably am allergic to the PTU but is there a chance that if I didn’t drink that I wouldn’t be allergic and is that chance high enough that I should try PTU for a few more days before scheduling RAI?

Thanks.

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