Hypothyroidism Support Group
Hypothyroidism is the disease state caused by insufficient production of thyrohormone by the thyroid gland. There are several distinct causes for chronic hypothyroidism, the most common being Hashimoto's thyroiditis and hypothyroidism following radioiodine therapy for hyperthyroidism. Advanced hypothyroidism may cause severe complications, the most serious one of which is...
December 6th doctor moved me up to 75mcg from 50mcg. I am into about the 3rd week but this last few days i have felt crappy and down. It has been bad weather here in philly rainy and dreary but I am hoping the hormone will kick in soon. Did anyone else go through this type of thing? thanks for your replies.
It's common when you first start meds, and subsequent dose increases, to feel worse before better, it's also strange, but true, that you may develop new crappy symptoms along the way. It gets better when your body adjusts to the dose, and will go away when you are on the right dose.
Hope you feel better soon!
Sometimes when I increase my dosage, my hands will hurt like they have been run over by a truck. There's no medication that will help. Should this occur you will just had to ride it out and live with it, until it finally goes away.
StillListing - wow, I've never heard anyone else list that symptom. I get that too!
Ironically, the first time I had it was after a T3 dose increase earlier this year and to a mild extent after a T4 dose increase later this year.
I've been taking thyroid hormone replacement since March 2010 so it just goes to show you that we stand the chance of developing new symptoms after dose adjustments.
@MButterfly
This might be TMI but I find the evolution of symptoms after dose adjustments to be quite the weird experience.
I just checked my symptoms journal.....I developed the vice-grip pain the day before I was scheduled for my regular labs in mid-May of this year.
The labs before *that* had showed the need for a T3 dose increase and my doctor didn't want to give me a "full" 2.5mcg dose increase because I "just had a T3 dose increase" (um, Feb?)
Instead, she had me taking alternating doses of 7.5/10mcg T3 that I KNEW would be problematic.
So, this hand thing happened 1 day shy of 4 wks. on the inadequate and horrible-to-be-alternating T3 dose she had me taking.
I started on 10mcg daily after those labs and the symptom was gone within 10 days. My next labs showed optimal :)
The next time I had the hand pain was 2 wks. after labs showed that my FT4 tanked and I started a small T4 dose increase. The pain lasted 4 days and was by no means as bad as it was the first time I had it. The next labs showed optimal.
I remember my doctor first telling me that she didn't think the hand pain was related to my thyroid and she ran bloodwork to check for Lyme, RA and OA - all of which came back negative.
Ironically, I found that bone pain is listed as a systemic manifestation of hypothyroidism in www.thyroidmanager.org.
Sure hope hand pain is a thing of the past for you!!