Newly Diagnosed With Hypothyroidism. So many symptoms.....Scared

[ZakiAli]

Hello. I was just recently diagnosed with hypothyroidism. I am have been taking Levo 50 for two weeks now. My symptoms are fatigue, muscle aches, dry eyes (vision changes), muscle twitches and vibrations, and ear ringing. Also a strange, crawling hot-cold feeling on my scalp. What really scares me is the twitching and vibrating is on mostly one side of my body. I was just wondering if anyone else had experienced this. I went to ER and the doctor did some labs, which came back normal with the exception of my TSH which was 12. I expressed my concerns about the one sided twitching and buzzing, which made me think MS or Parkinson’s. The ER doctor disagreed.

[Judithdalston]

So was it your Gp who started you off on a 50 mcg dose of levothyroxin? After 6 weeks on this dose you should have a blood test, and have the dose increased by 25 mcg for another 6 weeks etc. Until your TSH is 1 or under ( lower end of range). Did your Gp do any other tests:thyroid autoimmune antibodies, VitD, B12, folate and ferritin? Ask if he/she will test them, if might be worth considering getting these plus full thyroid test (TSH, FT4, FT3 and total T4) done privately ( Medichecks or Blue Horizon labs). A lot of symptoms you describe can be a result of hypothyroidism, but they do overlap with other conditions, but hypothyroidism often goes with low vitamin levels that similar cause some of these symptoms.

[Baobabs in reply to Judithdalston]

Just wondering if long term low levels of the building blocks often discussed here i.e. D3, Ferritin, Folate and B12 actually instigate thyroid disease? There certainly appears to be some kind of pattern or correlation. A great research topic for interested parties?

[Judithdalston in reply to Baobabs]

Has a correlation that low levels of these Vit/ mins makes for poor thyroid health/ limited conversion etc, but not the other way round ie you can't develop hypothyroidism from having low levels of them. Are you Hashimoto's?

[Baobabs in reply to Judithdalston]

How do you know? Yes I am Hashi's.