So Im on 100mg of levothyroxine (teva) first few weeks I felt amazing but now I’m nearly 3 months in and waiting for my first check up blood test which is Thursday.
I have been feeling all sorts of things, so starters I’ve been short of breathe for a couple of months and had a sore/achy throat but doctors put it down to post covid!
lately the last few weeks I’ve been having palpitations, headaches, dizziness, muscle aches and anxiety. I can’t sit still, I hate relaxing,can’t sleep much and it’s like I’ve gone polar opposite to my sluggish ways!
I am wondering if I am taking too much, seeing as they started me on 100, plus I’ve lost half a stone aswell from dieting and exercise and have heard that can change your dose too.
When I went to the doctors they didn’t even bring my blood test forward or anything, they just put me on beta blockers for the palpitations and high pulse. I only took these for two days because they made me so extremely dizzy.
Thinking of changing doctors.
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You can't tell really, without a blood test, but the good thing is that you only have 2 more days to wait for it. When the results are back, ask them to email you a copy. Keep it in a file. Chances are they only test TSH, perhaps T4, but it will be a start.
Prepare for your test as recommended on this forum. Arrange your blood test first thing in the morning as early as possible and don't take your thyroid meds until after the blood draw. You want a 24hr gap between last meds and test. If your blood test is booked for later in the day, phone up and make an excuse and ask to rearrange it for first thing as soon as possible. TSH is highest in the morning.
Don't eat or drink anything other than water before your blood test. I take my dose with me and a bottle of water and take it as soon as I get back in the car.
My test is in the afternoon, I struggle to get there for the morning as I start work at 8 and they open at 8. I don’t know what the best thing would be to do.
“According to the current TSH reference interval, hypothyroidism was not diagnosed in about 50% of the cases in the afternoon.”
“Further analysis demonstrated inadequate compensation of hypothyroidism, which was defined in 45.5% of the morning samples and in 9% of the afternoon samples”
If delaying taking levothyroxine until after blood test, you likely want to not eat or drink anything apart from water before taking levothyroxine
It may (or may not) make a difference to TSH if fasting ….opinions differ
So my results came back all fine, I am just waiting for a copy of them, the only thing that was low was vitamin D. Now my palpitations and headaches have gone and the only thing I’m struggling with now is dizziness. Are these two things linked?
As SlowDragon said above, you need to get permission to start work late for a medical test and rearrange that appointment for between 8-9am. I tend to manage to get them around 8.30 without too much trouble. You will be doing yourself no favours going in the afternoon. Thyroid hormones have a circadian cycle and for optimal treatment you need to be tested at the lowest practical point for TSH, which is first thing.
I have managed after trying to persuade the doctors that I had to have it earlier 😂 I got in for 8:50, I usually take my tablet at 6:30 so will that be ok to wait until after blood test?
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