Osteoperosis! Now I have a dilemma...

[charliecooper]

I have been on as much as 120 T3 at one point , currently been taking 60 for a long time.

When I initilly took T3, I felt WOW!!! This is how I am meant to feel. But since then, the feeling has dwindled. And because I have been left to get on with it on my own, I have played around with dosage. Even though I've not been 100% on any amount of T3, I still think its the one I should be on due to that first europa feeling and now trying to up my iron in case that's the missing piece ?

Anyhow now I have been diagnosed with osteoporosis. Been thinking maybe I've been taking too much .

Dilemma - Do I own up to the gp about probably taking too much? I get them on nhs prescription which I have been so grateful for but how would it look that I've been getting an expensive drug ( which some people would kill for ) that I may not have needed?

Do these occasional symptoms sound like I am over medicating-

1. Getting jerky leg at night, my leg feels it has to jerk and shoot up a bit to get rid of a kind of tension energy (hard to describe )

2. Sat shaking my leg while watching tv

3. Getting cramps in one of my toes

Not sure if its all the same leg and how long these have been happening. But they are tremors ain't they?

[mrsm49]

The night thing sounds like the Restless Leg Syndrome my sister had, hers resolved after taking a cocktail of B vits n minerals so sadly she's not sure what exactly her deficiencies were but restless legs have gone.

Re osteoporosis sorry i haven't looked at yr profile and not sure if yr a female or male Charlie, if female could the osteo be menopause related?

Over medication also raises your heart rate and basal temperature so I'd check them although its possible that you were over medicated on previous doses. I believe that an over range blood t3 level can be a culprit in bone turnover changes causing osteoporisis in long term.

[fibrolinda]

When was the last time you had blood tests? Would. Be good to see them, with ranges🙂 The leg at night thing? My hubbie has had that since I met him (30years) and he doesn't take any thyroid meds (took NDT last year for a while but that's a long story)

[Finola]

Hi Charlie,

The symptoms you mention sound to me like little muscular spasms and it may be that you need magnesium. We are generally low in mag due to modern farming practices and stress causes further mag depletion. Having to negotiate a medical system which pathologises patients who ‘don’t get better’ is very stressful on top of the problems we all have as part of life.

I suggest you try magnesium glycinate or mag malate as they are easier on the stomach. I have also found a product called Remag very good indeed but it is expensive.

Also you might check your b12levels as low levels of this can also cause weird neuro/physical symptoms like pins and needles in the extremities and muscular spasms.

I had severe muscular problems some years ago which the neurologist I consulted thought were the early stages of motor neurone disease and in fact were caused by a combination of very low iron, very low b12, low magnesium on top of very poorly treated hypothyroid. I was told to go home and see how the motor neurone developed. At that stage I started educating myself and self treating.

Don’t underestimate the health value of optimal mineral and vitamin levels. I am always amazed at how little the medical profession know or care about basic human chemistry.

Best wishes to you, but please do google effects of low mag and b12.

Finola

[charliecooper]

Thanks all for replying. mrsm49 I am female with family history of early menopause but not osteoporosis. Interesting about magnesium, I have had a quick Google search on it. Mmm. GP I'd going to do a few blood tests, may ask to include this one, is GPs willing to do magnesium? I am trying to up my iron.

Funny enough, I hadnt thought about these symptoms all being leg based until I posted, doh!!!