Synthroid withdrawal
Common Questions and Answers about Synthroid withdrawal
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I had the same affects you mention while on Synthroid and now have been off it for about 10 days and feeling so much better, my anxiety is considerably reduced, I was on 50mcg also but it was enough to mess me up in 3 months!
Eltroxin has changed its formula and more people are suffering side effects. Have you heard of Armor? Apparantly that is supposed to be better.
Keep us posted.
Hi,
I am pretty sure that he was testing his TSH, T3 AND T4 and that the labs showed he was overdosing. He was taking Synthroid, Armour AND Cytomel for years. For a while he was on a VERY high dose which made him sweat profusely at night and gave other clear symptoms that he was overdosing. He sort of put himself on that high a dosage because he was convinced he needed it.
Then after experiencing these side effects and losing weight profoundly, he realized he needed to cut back.
During triple with incivek, it got worse and they increased my synthroid from 100 ug to 150 ug daily. From what I have gathered, this is not uncommon and synthroid, when needed, has got to be one of the most benign drugs there is...
For the first five or six years I took synthroid only. After reading an article about Cytomel and speaking with my endocrinologist, he added Cytomel to my treatment. Recently he decided to reduce my Cytomel dosage by 1/2. Since that change, I have less energy and can't seem to stay awake. Could the lower dosage be the cause?
My mother is an 83 year old woman who is taking Synthroid plus T3 to help with her low thryroid levels. But her endocrinologist just suggested that she get off the T3, since she has recently started experienceing angioedema events (9 events since Jan.1). Is it okay for her to just stop taking the T3 cold-turkey, or better to taper her off it slowly?
If your T3 hormone - only measured by getting the Free T3 thyroid lab done - in blood work - is up in the 3/4 range of the reference range the withdrawal of any antidepressant is not as harsh as doing it when that hormone is not set correctly.
I am off synthroid in preparation for a second round of RAI for papillary thyroid cancer. This time my eyes are giving me a terrible time: light hurts, my glasses are no longer in focus, sight "off" and cloudy at times....Anyone else have eye problems during withdrawal? Thanks.
I have a friend that is in complete denial about her drinking. She lives out of town now and came to visit me a couple of months ago. She stayed with me for 4 days. I didnt know until then she was in such terrible shape. She has times that she can hardly have a conversation and one day she could not walk with out help. It seemed to me more of a neurological issue that day, because I don't think she was drunk.
She went to the doctor about 4 weeks ago to have her yearly labs drawn.
It helped but I tried to get off and felt like a steamroller ran over me until I told doctor after a mo and he put me back on it and the aches stopped. I also am on Synthroid for hypothyroidism. This started in 2000 with the depression or vice-versa...both at same time.
I tried several meds until Zoloft was the answer. I was my old self in no time and weight stayed normal just as it had my entire life into my 50s. Never had weight prob at all in my life until the thyroid and depression hit.
Okay, I can't take it anymore. I'm so hungry all the time and I don't know what the deal is. I had a TT in December of 2007 so I'm 6 months out now on Synthroid 150 mcg. Just had bloodwork last week and TSH is .096. Doc is fine with it and says all my other levels are "normal." (I am having a copy sent to me.) I am a runner but I'm not running anymore than I was before and nothing in my diet has changed. But I feel famished all the time for the past few weeks.
I woke up this morning with a lot of indigestion and not as great of an appetite. We have thought these symptoms could be withdrawal from Mirtzapine, as I had stopped it completely about two weeks ago. I am on anxiety medicine and a new anti-anxiety to make up for the Mirtzapine and see no negative side effects from it. What could this be?
t need to be off medication (which we usually do for 3 weeks prior to I-131 if withdrawal from meds needed). But to answer your question....it will effect flow and duration of cycles.
The Doc has you taking 822mcg weekly which can be adjusted without any ill effects by dividing this into 7 (days) if you feel that by taking no meds on the sunday is affecting you.
This amounts to 117.4 mcg daily so the best avenue to take would be to take 125mcg x 6 days (750mcg) and 75mcg on Sunday (totalling 825mcg)...this would make you a fraction over (3mcg weekly) what you are taking now but really this would be the only way to do it.
Run it by your Doc and see what he/she says.
Hi I'm Megan, I have been on Methadone for 4 & 1/2 years now, in my first year I gained 100pounds, crazy! After spending the next year doing everything in my power to lose weight my doctor diagnosed me with hypothyroidism, he gave my synthroid and told me I'd lose all the weight. How exciting! Yayyyy! Yea right! Never happened. Anyway this past June I started tapering down started at 120mg and now I'm at 55mg. During my taper so far I've gone from 224 pounds to 175pounds.
People get headaches from caffeine withdrawal. Synthroid has a half life of 6 days meaning 50 mcg in your body becomes 25 the next week, then 12.5 the next week, then 6.25, 3.12, 1.5. .50, .25. so it can take a long time to get out of the system.
I went from hyper to hypo. My endocrine had made the mistake of putting me on Tapazole and I became severely hypo. Now to rectify it, I've been on 125 ml of synthroid. I've been on syntroid for a 6 weeks and started noticing excessive hair loss within the past week. I've been tested a week ago and my levels are on the higher side of the normal range. I do feel great, but still losing so much hair. My doctor calls it Telogen effluvium? Is that possible? Or is it the medication?
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