reading the package leaflet: information for the medication user

[Pedy]

hello I've only been a member for a short while. I am still amazed at finding so many fellow thyroid sufferers. I,ve had an underactive thyroid for nearly 20 years. I have been suffering with what the doctor thought was labyrinthitis. I lost my hearing temporarily on Monday and became very unsteady today. I had an appointment today to see the nurse practitioner she prescribed believe it or not, Prochlorperazine 5mg tablets. which happen to be one of the Warnings and precautions for underactive thyroids. I am also an elderly woman at risk of an extreme fall in body temperature in very cold weather. What am I supposed to do? I will go back to my doctor I think and not take the Proochlorperzine.

[shaws Administrator]

Diziness etc is also a clinical symptom and if you've not had a recent blood test I'd request one from the doctor. It should be at the very earliest possible, fasting (you can drink water) and allow a gap of 24 hours between dose of levo and test and take afterwards. Nowadays I wouldn't take any prescriptions without investigating as they are so poorly trained in hypothyroidism.

Ideally you need TSH, T4, T3, Free T4, Free T3 and thyroid antibodies. (FT4 and FT3 are the most informative as it tells us if we're producing sufficient T3 from T4 (levothyoxine).

There would be not problem getting these at the same time as deficiences can also cause problems. You need:

B12, Vit D, iron, ferritin and folate and deficiencies can also cause clinical symptoms.

If you have any of the following symptoms you may be on sufficient dose.

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

Let us know how you get on.

Also get a print-out from the surgery of your results with the ranges and post them for comments. Deficiencies in vitamins/hormones can also cause symptoms.

[Pinkpeony]

B12 is a .must check , Lack of it caused my vertigo . Also vit d . Be wary of Prochlorperazine . Pp

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Just a point - the PIL doesn't say that it's contra-indicated Pedy , only that you should discuss it with your medical prescriber before taking, which presumably (hopefully) the nurse practitioner took account of when deciding it would be okay to prescribe to you. I think each of my various meds has similar "discuss it first" warnings for one or other of my other conditions.