Iwas diagnosed with an under active thyroid six weeks ago. I started off on 25 mg of levothyroxine increasing to 50, 75 and now onto 100mg.
I am constantly tired have no energy, i feel light headed as if am in a dream world and unable to concentrate. I am also very moody with the ones i love most. This diagnosis was a shock to say the least, I am 40 years old and i have a fifteen month old son. I was wondering if these symptons are normal for this condition especially the light headidness?.
I understand i will be on this medication for the rest of my life which i will have to live with but can anyone give me some insight as to when i will start to feel better in myself? I really dont feel any better on 100mg so i am summising my dosage isn't right yet would i be right in thinking this? :roll:
It is exactly a year since i was diagnosed. I have just realised to day that i feel better than i have been. In the summer school holidays i had three weeks off work then went back for a week then had another three weeks off. It still get tired but found not quite so bad.
My head also seems less fuzzy than it has been. With regards to the light headness are you eating enough. It could be your blood sugar going down which also makes you moody.
I found that if i sat down i would go to sleep but not for a cat nap but for two or three hours and still sleep on the night. I have nt done this for a couple of weeks so maybe i might be starting to go back to normal.
I am on 75mg levothyroxine and will be 46 on the 17th. Also gone through menopause which i personally think has something to do with thyroid.
Keep your chin up and take care of yourself.
Hi
All your symptoms seem within the boundaries of underactive thyroid in my experience. I was diagnosed in my early 20's and i am now 40. When i was first diagnosed i thought my life was over TABLETS FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE!!!! UNTHINKABLE but i eventually got over that and i am glad of those little tablets now.
I was first diagnosed with overactive thyroid after constantly going to my doctor with various ailments but basically feeling like my life was slowly dripping from me, sleeping all the time, feeling exhausted, shaking uncontrolably, bulging eyes, goitre (as i now know it) lack of concentration, and i could go on and on. I was put on carbimazole tablets and later on in life when i wanted to have children my doctor told me as there had been no decrease in my symptoms that it would be better to have radioactive iodine before i had children. I did this twice, which was painless in itself but i was not prepared for or told about the after effects which were again instantly sleeping the clock around, having no life in me, feeling exhausted all the time etc (these periods took a toll on my work life and i spend long periods of time at home on sick leave) Once my thyroid slowly rectified itself (also with help of levothyroxine now as my thyroid had gone to underactive) i started to feel more human again. I had repeated blood tests to keep an eye on my thyroid and it took a good 12 months to stabilise and feel \"normal\". I was told that i couldnt try for children for 12 months because of the radioactive iodine but after 12 months we tried and i now have 2 healthy happy children. My thyroid was again closely watched through pregnancy and after but now i only have to have blood tests every 12 months unless i feel any symptoms myself that i feel are not right in which case i can go back to my doctor who will run a test straight away. The conclusion to it all is this is a disease that we have to live with and which so many people do not understand and at some point in my life stopped trying to explain to people as it started to sound like an excuse all the time eg: forgetfulness..... its my thyroid, tiredness...... oh its my thyroid, feeling low..... its prob just my thyroid, being overly cold and intolerant to it......... thats because of my thyroid.....People just dont know how many symptoms there can actually be to this disease because its not as commonly spoken about as say diabetes etc. I am led to believe it will be something i will have to live with for the rest of my life but a ray of hope came just a month ago when a routine check concluded that i needed to come down from 175mg of levothyroxine to 150mg. To my mind that meant that my body was producing more hormone than it was but my doctor didnt seem to be too overly excited about it so it would be interesting to see if anyone out there has experienced the same as me and what exactly this new turn in my life means..... am i getting better? or not????
Good luck XBEVX
You are never free of this disease especially after radioactive treament as that usually wipes the thyroid out completely.
Having to reduce your dose just means you are over medicated although I have to be to feel anywhere near well. I was on 150 then went down to 125, within a few weeks I was feeling ghastly so I am now back up to 150 which means my next test will come back as over medicated but we won't take any notice of that as it's only numbers and we are all different and need different amounts.
So I wouldn't get excited about it if i was you.
Good luck anyway :D