cold with overactive thyroid

[Helluvabella]

hi I finally heard back from my gp and the Endo has prescribed 20mg carbimazole daily. My concerns was yesterday I started this and if I’m remembering correctly I was sneezing before I even took the tablet with a tickle nose but has anyone had common cold symptoms blocked and runny nose and watery eyes while taking the drug?

[Fruitandnutcase]

I took 20mg carbimazole for a month then after some blood tests got a letter from my endo telling me to increase to 40mg a day because the 20mg hadn’t really made much difference.

It’s very important that you read the patient information leaflet that should come with your pills - if by any chance you haven’t got one then Google and you will find one online. There are things that you need to look out for a sore throat being (I think) the main one.

nhs.uk/medicines/carbimazole/

I had a bit of a bit of a sore throat not long after I started, I contacted my GP and had a WBC blood test. Everything was fine.

Next time I had a sore throat I spoke with the GP and we decided on a ‘wait and see’ approach. I’ve got a feeling it would have been a massive sore throat rather than what I had but read you definitely need to read the link above. I don’t remember hav8ng cold symptoms though - just the sore throat.

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