I have never related my aches and pains to thyroid problems, (I also have Hashimoto's) but I guess it could be. I get up in the mornings and my usual comment is "I feel like I've been run over by a truck." I don't feel as bad when I can sleep in and wake up when I'm ready, but when waking up to get ready for work, I ache all over for a couple of hours. I take a couple of Tylenol or something when I get to work and after that I'm okay, but still tired. No energy at all.

I was on Synthroid for fifteen yrs, it worked some at first, but never really very well, turns out I was not converting it, the T4 to the T3 properly, I was tired and sore in the morning and had symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome when I would wake up. All of that went away after I went on Natural thyroid (used to take Armour, now I just get compounded dessicated thyroid because I can choose my own filler). Well this yr, my doctor was concerned about me having a low free T4 level, and had me try a small dose (50 mcg) of levothyroxine in addition to my natural thyroid. Well after about a month I had severe aching joints in my hands similar to what I would think arthritis would feel like every morning and I also had a return of fatigue so bad I thought I must be getting fibromyalgia. Well I got blood work done to rule out arthritis, it wasnt that, and told the doctor I suspected it must be the levothyroxine dose, I quit taking it and she upped my natural thyroid dose instead. It took another month but my hands quit hurting and my energy returned. I no longer felt like I had the flu every morning. Doing much better now, will never go back to the synthetics again.

I also have Hashimoto's as well as carpal tunnel. What vitamin's are you taking? I know for me I get severe leg cramps and ache all over when my calcium and Vit D are off. My doc has me on Caltrate + D, Vit D, fish oil, and Biotin. They seem to help (although the achyness is never totally gone). I do notice a bigger difference when I do NOT take them. Hope this helps!

When I was on Levothyroxine, for about a week, I would wake up with serious muscle aches. When I massaged my shoulders I was cringing, felt like I had worked out all night or something. Also, like Bloom, I did have carpal Tunnel issues on Levo, but that went away when I started taking Armour instead. Not that the Levo is necessarily causing these problems, but it did for me. My severe muscle aches went away within a day or two of quitting Levo.

Well, I only began levothyroxine about a week ago, but these aches and pains come and go in severety even before I began the meds. I take a multivitamin every night as well as calcium/magnesium, vitamin D, evening primrose oil, vitamin c and garlic.

OhSoTired: When my levels went hypo and i found myself in hypo hell, my body ached and my joints ached. I felt like a mixture between someone who had just worked out for hours and someone with bad arthritis.... perhaps your levels are low and you are too hypo for your body. The levothyroxine should help bring your levels up if that is the case and you should feel a difference in about 3 or so weeks.... patience is a virture... its seems like a long time from now... hope you find some relief sooner than later. Try taking some ibuprofen to releive the aches for now.

No way to know, but have they checked your vitamin D level , lack of vitamin d causes aches and pains all over. Many people are deficient these days. I think it is from all the sun screen we wear.

I'd definitely recommend checking your Vit D levels. Also, one of levothyroxine's side effects is fatigue and muscle weakness/aches. I was on Levo for about 10 years and always woke up feeling exhausted, achey and sore. About a month ago I switched to Armour and no longer have the aches and pains in the morning. I'm not sure if its due to switching meds or if my thyriod levels are finally starting to be better controlled (I have a blood test scheduled for next week), but I definitely feel so much better on Armour.

I would definitely talk to your doctor about your symptoms and inquire as to whether a different med would work or if he/she could recommend morning stretching exercises that might help with your achy muscles.

I had really bad aches all over -- all the time. I finally convinced my doctor that I needed a total work-up. That's when the hypothyroidism was found. Now that I've been on levothyroxin for 2 1/2 months the body aches have gone away except to nighttime and mornings. In the evening my legs hurt and in the morning my body hurts until I get up and get moving. I was thinking this might be a circulation problem. I don't know. The last few months I've decided that I'm doing search's and posts on all my medical issues. I want to feel as good I can. I have a good repor with my doctor. She calls me a cyberchondriac and tell her to stop complaining I'm making her rich. It's all in good fun.

I did have my vitamin D levels checked. They are not optimal as my doctor says. It was 54 and optimal is 70 to one hundred and somthing, sorry I cannot remember. Anyway, she told me to start supplimenting my vitamin D. So I've been on those for about a month now.
As regards the aches and pains, they seem to fluctuate in severity. Some days I don't notice any pain then I go thru bouts where I can barely move in the morning. Once I am up and moving about, it usually goes away or at least lessens.

my body aches too like i been in a bad accident. right now im on nothing cuz they did an ablation on my thyrtoid but they will put me on levothyroxine i sure hope it works after reading all these negative things about levo im pretty nervous. I asked the dr why levo why not armour or synthyroid he said armour, they dont measure the pigs thyroid just mush it all togrther and everty morning is a guessing game plus they keep changing whaty is in it, syn he said is ok but noy as close to our own bodies hormone as levo is. sigh guess i just try one thing snd another til we get it right lol. been living undiagnosed for over 20 years i think few more months wont hurt lol hugs to all my thoughts and prayers are with you

this is good that we're sharing all of this -- I recently started waking up so so sore that it felt like i was hit by a truck. My shoulders have ached for years, so badly that a small touch adds extra pain. I also have a carpel Tunnel problem in the morning and my finger joints ache something badly too.

I never once thought to relate this to -- THIS DISEASE!! OH, SO MADE. THIS DAMN DISEASE CAUSES SO MUCH TROUBLE!!!!!

I related this to stress of school, instead. I never know how much stress school causes. I've been told this court reporting is the hardest thing to take that students go home crying EVERY DAY. I feel it's been a breeze for me until I got -- this crappy disease!!

SO, AGAIN, it's probably related to not getting -- T3, DAH!!

Also, if you are on both t4 and t3 meds and you're still having these problems, I suggest checking for Iodine deficiency. Apparently if you are iodine deficient, your body can't convert the hormones correctly even if you're getting it in pill form. I guess that's why i was prescribed it? Haven't gotten it yet, waiting for this stupid chest infection to fade out first.

Before I knew that I had this condition, I'd have the worst leg aches - I couldn't walk up the stairs without cringing. And my arms hurt even just trying to wash my hair.

The medication that I'm taking has helped some, but not resolving this issue entirely.

Feliciaro from what I've read on the internet, and from my doctor, Levothyroxin is the recommended treatment according to the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologist, and most people do very well with just that. You need to give it about 2 months for it to be totally effective, and if the doctor changes your dose or adds cytomel to it, you need to give that treatment 2 months to judge it's effectiveness. It's best to listen to your doctor, but if you don't get better or have side effects to the drugs you need make your doctor listen to you too. Too many doctors are too use to one way conversations and ignore what the patient has to say about their own body.

My doctor said close to the same thing as yours -- here's your quote -- "he said armour, they dont measure the pigs thyroid just mush it all togrther and everty morning is a guessing game plus they keep changing whaty is in it,"

Since I'm still hurting some days (not all) and have been on levothyroxin for a few months I've decided I want to give Armor a try even though my doctor does not like the idea, so I'm preparing in my mind some of the come backs for my doctor's objections. I was thinking that in answer to the above statement I would say --> they take the thyroids from pigs that have been slaughtered for food. Pigs that are slaughtered for food are young healthy pigs -- which would have young healthy thyroids -- so wouldn't the variances be minimal? In response to " plus they keep changing whaty is in it," I would say --> they had an unannounced change in the filler which was the wrong thing to do. The public was outraged by this and I doubt they would do it again. The CEO of Forest Labs has apologized for it.

I'm also planning to bring up the fact that the thyroid makes more than just T4 (levothyroxine) so if the thyroid isn't functioning it makes sense to attempt to replace all the things the thyroid makes.
Armor does this. Plus if it doesn't work for me I can go back to what I was doing, it's not irreversible.

I'm really playing Devils Advocate in this post. I'm mentally preparing myself for my doctor visit tomorrow.