I PRAY THAT IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE IN YOUR LIFE, SOMETHING THAT SIMPLE. OMG HOW BLESSED YOU ARE....LOVE.....HELEN

I sure hope it makes a difference! My sister is still taking that same drug for her goiter and has had very good results thus far.

Do you have hashimoto's. That is when your immune system thinks your thyroid is foreign and attacks it, eventurally shutting it down. Is that what you have? I have that plus fibro and lupus. They are all auto immune diseases

I hope like crazy that this works for you. I have a very progressive doctor and even though the standard thyroid test shows that I'm fine, she put me on cytomel. It specifically targets the t3 hormone which is many times low in fibro patients, but not tested for in the regular test. I've been on it for 3 weeks now and the debilitating fatigue is gone!!! I still have lots of pain, but hey, this is a big thing too.

Good luck with your new meds. I'll be rooting for you.

I hope this helps. I'll keep my fingers crossed, Hugs, Keleee :)

I wish u all the luck maybe u will have renewed engery,I have a goiter and some nodules growing on my thyroid,had fine neddle asp.ILL HAVE TO BE WATCHED FOE ANY CHANGES EVER SIX MONTHS,FOR ANY CHANCE OF CANCER,BUMMER,I THINK SOME TIMES I HAVE NO ENGERY BECAUSE OF THIS AND ITS JUST BEING MISSED.HOPE U DO WELL ON MED.HUGS BeckyPLS forgive miss spelled words,i just can't think well tonight.

I've been on thyroid replacement meds for 37 years. Believe me, if I run out, in about 2 or 3 days, I can tell the difference! Totally exhausted, just drained, horrible. The funny thing is, when I started taking them, I didn't think they made any difference, so I quit taking them. Then I realized how much they had helped. Apparently it takes awhile to make a difference, and the improvment is so gradual you don't really realize it. So stay with it, it will help. This is a life-time med., According to the many doctors I've seen in all those years, if your thyroid isn't working the way it should, it never will. On the plus side, apparently it doesn't get worse either, or at least in my case. My dosage never had changed until about 4 years ago, and it had to be increased. After the fibro hit, of course. You do have to get your levels checked regularly (every 6-12 months, simple blood test). Also, it's one of the cheaper meds, so if you don't have good insurance, it's not a killer. Hope you feel better. hugs

Gonna tell you hypothyroidism was my first disease. *sigh*

Unfortunately, to doctors, Sythroid (synthetic thyroid) is ALWAYS the answer, but it probably won't help with the fatigue. IT didn't me. I ended up so bad after 9 yrs. my kids were pushing me up the stairs after only being up for 1 hour a day and having to be pushed back into the bed. It was ridiculous.

I made a switch to NATURAL supplemental thyroid and adrenal gland supplement. Within 3 weeks I was completely normal. Just my experience. I wouldn't get back on Synthroid if you paid me. Just my two cents.

I've read some reputible websites that increasing Vitamin D may be effective. Talk to your doctor. As a matter of fact I was recently told that many people with FMS have an unknown Vit D deficiency, even when the levels are "within range." Whose range? We don't get enough sun exposure (best source of Vitamin D) since most of us know that sun exposure causes skin cancer. This is new research so your doctor may not be aware. Make sure that your vitamin D levels have been checked. You probably know that Vitamin D helps calcium absorption. We would have to drink gallons of milk to receive the equivalent of the amount that is being discussed. I don't wish to be liable for telling amounts since I have a license to protect.
This is a website about women's bone health. Low Vitamin D levels may contribute to muscle pain. http://science.education.nih.gov/Supplements/NIH6/Bone/guide/nih_looking-good.pdf

Good luck! I'm continuing to research this and I will make a post with websites when I discover more.

Hypothyroid was my "first" disease also. I usually was the one to mow the lawn. That summer I never mowed it once, I came home from work so exhausted, I slept as soon as I came home from work (hubby had to wake me up or wait until I woke up to eat supper. then, I would fall asleep right after supper and woke up at 10 or 11 pm to go to bed. I didn't want to see anyone, talk to anyone or do anything. I thought this is what happens when you turn 40 LOL Finally, I went to my dr and my TSH level was double what it should have been! NO WONDER!! I slept more that summer than a newborn baby. Hang in there, it will take awhile for them to slowly increase your meds to get it to the right levell. One thing I found out...about a month ago, my nails were growing so nice, then all of a sudden they all got so brittle and broke. It just so happened, it was time for a new thyroid test, and I needed to increase my meds. So now, if that happens again, I will ask the dr to check my levels again.

After that I got mono and fibro..sigh.. I haven't mowed the lawn since.

TC N Hugs Judy

Well, I haven't felt much of a difference yet since starting the medicine. The pharmacy gave me the generic synthroid. My MIL told me though that the generic is not as good as the name brand, that this is one drug where there is a difference between the generic & the name brand. So, guess I'll try the name brand next month & see if it makes a difference.

Now, as far as the question about hashimoto's. If I had that, wouldn't my thyroid levels be way out of line? From the way the dr talked, my levels were only slightly out of line. I don't know, it's one more thing to ask my doctor about.

I've always thought that I must have had an auto-immune issue, because I've always had problems with getting sick with everything, and I've had so many health issues. It'd be nice if there was some good reason, some name I could put to it, some excuse I could trot out for the critics, skeptics & unsympathetic folks who gossip about why I'm never involved at my son's school anymore. Why I don't make most field trips, why I don't volunteer, etc, etc. *Especially* since I'm a stay at home mom, I should have all kinds of free time & be involved in everything, yadda, yadda, yadda. No, nobody ever says anything to my face about it. I see the looks occasionally; my SIL told me last year when my son was playing basketball for Upward Bound, that she had been asked by one or two people if my husband & I had separated or divorced, because they never saw ME at the practices or games. Nope, that doesn't put any pressure on me, not at all. Just what I need to worry about on top of everything else, huh? Anyways, I went off on a rant there. Don't know what brought that all up.

i was on meds for thryoid and my hair started falling out bad . my nails are briddle to . used to have great nails . i quit the meds and . had rumy appt this week . she took blood work all came back normal.