Link between Levo & Ovaries

Since joining the forum not too long ago, after reading numerous posts I realised that I wasn't taking my Levothyroxine at the appropriate time, I was taking it when I got up and then having breakfast almost immediately. For the last couple of months or so I've been taking it about 7am and then having breakfast well over an hour later. My question is, since I've been doing this I invariably get terrible "period" pains (shocking at my age!) and lower back pain. Does anyone know if this is a "thing", I ask because its particularly bad today and hasn't eased off at all and its 11:13am now. I had blood and urine tests a couple of weeks ago and there was blood in my urine but surgery has not called to say there was any kind of infection. Feels totally different from a urine infection anyway. Feel I've morphed into a great moaner since discovering this forum, but it does at least give one sound advice so I'm just asking.......

[SeasideSusie Remembering]

MiyaMoo

there was blood in my urine but surgery has not called to say there was any kind of infection

If they've not contacted you, then you should ring the surgery to find out what was tested and the result.

Personally, I doubt it's connected to Levo. I've been taking it for 43 years, different brands over the years, incorrect timing and correct timing (when I realised) and I've never experienced anything like you describe.

[Hidden in reply to SeasideSusie]

Thanks SeasideSusie, yes it did seem odd. I've got an appointment next week with the quack, that was initially set up to chat through my low vitamin / blood results which you and I discussed recently (again thanks), so I'll bring this up with her then.

[SeasideSusie Remembering in reply to Hidden]

MiyaMoo

Is your surgery one where the doctors only allow you to discuss one thing per appointment? If so, then prior to your appointment I would pop along and ask at reception for a print out of the results of that test (and any others you might have had done), then pop it on the desk during your appointment so the doctor can see it and then bring it up before you leave.

They vary at my surgery, we had one GP who kept quoting the "one thing only", another who, when I said could I just ask about xxxx while I'm here, replied with a rather curt "only if you're quick", yet the Advanced Nurse Practioner lets me prattle on about anything

[Hidden in reply to SeasideSusie]

I'm very new to this surgery, had one appointment with one doctor (the one who cut my Levo down from 125mg to 100mg because he said my TSH was too high on last testing in Jan and I was now "hyper"!), the other two appointments were with the Practice Nurse, she's the one who did a "dip test" of my pee and said there was blood in it, went to see the doctor and came back and said "the results will take a week, but if we hear anything we'll get you back asap". I didn't hear anything. I got a call back to say they wanted me to take the Vitamin D so when I went to pick up that prescription I took the opportunity of getting my blood results printed off and since your advice on those results I am going to bring up the low B12 and D with her, try to do very quickly, before I leap into the pains in my nether regions. BTW I had ovarian cysts when I was in my 20s and it feels just like that. So in answer, I'm not sure if its a one thing per appointment just yet.

[annnsandell]

I have had something very like this, pain where it hurts when you are desperate to pass urine and difficulty passing urine. Is it like that. I had my urine tested but I wasn't convinced it was a uti as it was different. It happened again about two weeks later. About four days at a time. As I was on a no carb diet, I stopped that because I thought I wasn't having enough bulk coupled with fruit. I'll just see if it happens again.

[Hidden in reply to annnsandell]

Hi annnsandell, no I didn't hurt when I passed urine at all, it is definitely the sort of pain when you get a period, but since I'm 62 I obviously no longer have that. I don't follow a gluten free diet, I do try to give up bread, but I love it so much its really hard. Again, I don't think that makes any difference. Like I said I had ovarian cysts when I was younger and it may be fibroids or something. I just thought I'd ask about the Levo as it seemed to come on after I'd taken that so was just checking....

[bantam12 in reply to Hidden]

Could be either a prolapse or vaginal atrophy, both cause the pains you are getting.