I've just been diagnosed with Underactive Thyroid. I'm getting aching joints and feeling tired all the time. Is this normal with UT?

[Steve38]

[shaws Administrator]

Welcome to our forum.

Unfortunately, the answer is yes - aching joints and tiredness are just two of the clinical symptoms. Hopefully, as you increase your medication you will begin to feel better.

Always get a print-out of your thyroid gland blood tests for your own records and, if you have a query, you have them ready to post them too. It enables members to answer more fully and you must also put the ranges as labs differ throughout the UK.

If you haven't already had a Vitamin B12, Vitamin D, iron, ferritin and folate blood test ask for these to be done as the first two in particular are usually deficient.

This is a link re the role of vitamins and if you do supplement always have them 4 hours apart from your levothyroxine.

You can either take your levo first thing with a full glass of water and breakfast one hour later. Or, you can take it last thing at night, not having eaten for two hours beforehand. When you get your next blood test, miss out your morning dose till after your test. If taken at night miss out the night's dose and take after test.

[Steve38 in reply to shaws]

Thanks.

[greenginger]

Hi this needs to be moved to another category. You are underactive so hypo not hyper.

[Steve38 in reply to greenginger]

Ah ok, thanks, i don't know the difference yet.

[greenginger in reply to Steve38]

no probs hope it helps x