Muscle pain

[Lou4star]

I am on 100mg of levothyroxine and have increasing muscle pain in both arms. Does anyone else experience this and if so how did they get a remedy to improve it?

[Marz]

How are your results looking - TSH FT4 FT3 etc. Are they optimal ? Also the following - B12 - VitD - Ferritin - Folate - Iron....

Do you have any gut issues ? Do you have Hashimotos ? Sorry lots of questions but it is difficult to help with so little information....

[greygoose in reply to Marz]

I agree - B12, vit D, zinc, mangnesium - all of those can cause muscle pain if they're deficient.

[Tweetypie28]

Hi Lou

As Marz says, more info is needed but for me personally, the majority of my muscle and bone pain stopped when my vitamin D was at a good level. Although that said, my iron levels were good too after being very low. Pop your results up and someone may be able to help x

[Pat1ence]

I'm experiencing the same having been on 100mcg for a little over a week. I have Hashi's. How long have you been taking it?

I'm hoping it's because things will get worse before they get better. I've seen people say that so fingers crossed.

[shaws Administrator]

When I was first diagnosed with a TSH of 100 I had felt very ill but had no pain.

When prescribed levo I had muscle/joint pain all over, I could only shuffle about it was so painful. You just don't know what's wrong with you. I also felt so unwell too.

When some T3 was added it made an overall difference to my wellbeing. I think that some of us cannot convert T4 to sufficient T3, which is the active hormone our Receptor Cells need in order for us to have normal health. That's when I began to look at the internet, found Thyroiduk.org and from then on each step/change I began to recover. It did take a few years but the T3 addition helped the pain. I now take T3 only and am well.

[loueldhen]

I was on levi 100mg/day for 8 years. For the last 18 months of that I had increasing muscle pain and decrease in activity as a result. I hit rock bottom went on a meat fish veg water diet and still felt rubbish. At this point i realised the only external influence on my body was the levi. I reduced to 50 for a few days and felt an improvement. Then stopped taking it completely and the muscle pain went away. Of course the hypothyroid symptoms then returned but at least I knew what they were! Had no treatment for a few months. Have since gone onto T3 only. No longer fall asleep by 2pm but other than that not much effect.