Night sweat remedies and levoxthyrine

[LinMid]

Hello. I am a 52 year old female suffering from horrendous hot flushes by day and night sweats. Just this week my doctor increased my levoxthyrine dose from 50mg to 75mg after receiving back my blood tests. She said that she couldn't give me anything for my menopausal hot flushes as I have a history of breast cancer in my family she said that I couldn't take anything containing soy.

I live in Spain but can order things through Holland and Barrett so wondering if you have any recommendations that a) don't contain soy and b) that I can take with levoxthyrine?

I am sure that this has been asked a million times before so apologies....

Thanks

[Clutter]

LinMid,

Ask GP to check B12 and folate. Low B12 can cause night sweats and folic acid may help hot flushes.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/252...

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[LinMid in reply to Clutter]

Thank you. That's interesting reading.

[SlowDragon Administrator]

Also get vitamin D and ferritin checked. Don't assume because your in Spain that vitamin D will be good

[shaws]

Do you have results of your most recent blood test results, with the ranges, that you can post in order to make helpful comments? 75mcg is quite a low dose and you may not yet be on sufficient to relieve your clinical symptoms. Tick off the ones in the link below.

thyroiduk.org.uk/tuk/about_...

When were you diagnosed? Blood tests should be at the very earliest possible, fasting (you can drink water) and allow a gap of 24 hours between last dose of levo and test and take afterwards. This helps keep the TSH at its highest as that's all doctors seem to look at. Always get a print-out of your results and make sure ranges are shown. Members cannot comment properly unless ranges are state. Labs have different ranges and it makes it easier to comment.

Your doctor should test TSH, T4, T3, Free T4, Free T3 and antibodies. Also you need B12, Vit D, iron, ferritin and folate.

You will see from the list of symptoms that there is such a wide variety and I doubt any doctor will know one of them.

[cleo26]

Do you have any labs for estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, etc.? If you are suffering from menopause and can’t take any reproductive hormone replacement (and it's not thyroid-related), have you considered any natural remedies? Black cohosh, for instance? Not sure if you said you couldn't take (b)hrt or if you couldn't take soy because there are other hormones as well as those that can be derived from wild yam.

Finally some doctors prescribe SNRI anti-depressants off label for hot flashes/ night sweats.

[LinMid]

I was diagnosed Nov 2016. Tiropina which I think is TSH was 12.264 (range 0.38 - 5.33 UI/ml). Tiroxina (free) was 0.63 (range 0.58 - 1.64). Estrogen was 16. I was put on 50mg of thyroxine. A retest this Mar showed TSH of 1.786 (same range as above). Dr didn’t change my thyroxine dose. This week results showed TSH of 6.694 and tiroxina (free) of 0.63. Estrogen was 25, again same ranges as above. Dr increased thyroxine to 75mg.