trying to get to the bottom of an unsolved problem.

[seanto]

what i am about to post might seem quite random but i am trying to get to the bottom of an unsolved problem that has been going on for about almost three weeks. I have been backwards and forwards to out of hours, gp and my pharmacist, that i am starting to get a bit feed up.

so it all started about three weeks when i woke up one day feeling nauseous. So I just assumed that i was hungry as my body way of telling me its hungry is to make nauseous. So I ate lots that day hopping i would feel better and nothing really changed. So off i went to out of hours after phoning 111. I was given some meds that made me feel worse. Which lead me back to down to out of hours almost a week later. I was then told i needed to have a urine sample done but not knowing that i went a wee before i left. So they gave me some different meds to take and told me to take a sample to my gp the following day. Just in case it was in my urine i decied not to get the meds from the pharmacist just in case i would have to take it back and collect another set of meds. 3 days later i found out nothing was wrong with my urine, so i took my prescription to down to the pharmacist who told me to go see a gp as out of hours has given a me a prescription worth £253 which would take 3 days to come in. Popped into the gp surgery and asked for the lquid alternative as i struggle to take pills which turned out the only alternative was the one that was making me feel worse. So I had no choice but to have the pills as it was that or nothing as my gp was not letting me have the meds worth £253 as they are not licensed. I have now been on these pills for about a week. I meant to be taking three a day but my sleeping schedule only allows for me to have two a day as they have to be taken 8 hours apart. Yet despite taking pills that are meant to stop me feeling nauseous i still don't feel much better.

I am going round in circles as i dont know what to do any more and its getting to the point that I have felt nauseous for so long that its starting to feel normal. I also haven't thrown up once the whole time I have felt this way. I also don't have any other symptoms other than always feeling nauseous. However if it makes any difference i have hypothyroidism so i have to take levothyroxine 50 mg and i was told on my last blood test that I was one up. However they chose to not take my dosage down as I was down on the blood test i had the time before that one which meant that I could go back down. I wish i could just get to the bottom of this as i dont like feeling the way i do.

[Aurealis]

I had nausea on one pack of Wockhardt thyroxine, I don't suppose you're on that are you?

[seanto in reply to Aurealis]

no i am on levothyroxine 50 mg

[Pink_Bear in reply to seanto]

Aurealis makes a good point here - 2 brands of levo make me nauseous. Which brand do you take and have you changed brand recently?

[seanto in reply to Pink_Bear]

i am on the actavis brand which i have been on for like 5 to 6 months as before that i was on 25 mg instead.

[MidnightBlue]

Could you be pregnant?

[seanto in reply to MidnightBlue]

I havent had intercourse since like last September

[Angel_of_the_North]

If my cortisol is very low, I get sick in the morning.

[Clutter]

Seanto, can you post your recent thyroid blood results with the lab ref ranges (the figures in brackets after your results) so we can see whether you are optimally medicated on Levothyroxine.

[seanto in reply to Clutter]

i dont have the results as I was given them over the phone as thats how my gp clinic works. I just remember being told that I was one up and that they where not going to worry about as I was down the time before. However as they where slightly concerned they told me at the time to get my bloods checked in 3 months time. I have the blood test next Wednesday as that will be around the three month mark.

[Clutter in reply to seanto]

Ask for a printout of the results with the lab ref ranges. Patients are entitled to see their test results under the Data Protection Act.