Hi everyone ❤️
I'm hoping someone can help me as I'm just about done with these thyroid meds,
Quick history, thyroidectomy in 2019 (graves thyrotoxicosis) (lactose intolerant and have colitis)
Put on T4 after thyroidectomy unfortunately it contained lactose and after gp told me to stick with them as side effects would lesson, my bloods were awful after 2 and a half months I then found out they contained lactose and got moved on to another T4 which were teva, these were worse but again gp told me to stick with them, again 3 month blood tests showed absorbtion problems.
OK I'm not going to go right through the medication history only to say I got put on T3 teva 😠 you can guess the out come of that, then put back on T4 then back on T3 (Roma) ... My surgery have been swapping my thyroid medication hoping to have a different out come in my symptoms, which are always stomach /bowle related, cramping, diarrhea bloating, inflammation, nauseated, sweating, really bad pain in bowles.
I recently had 2 camera procedures one showed a hiatus hernia and my colonosocopy showed nothing no cancer.
But still I'm having bad diarrhoea, cramping and bad inflammation in bowles with sickly feeling sweating I honestly look 7 months pregnant, I'm 61 with no womb so it's no that😄 I know it's the thyroid meds as I have done an experiment of coming off both T4 and T3 to see if the symptoms subside they always do, no diarrhoea, cramps or inflammation, sicky feeling, sweating and inflammation goes in that my stomach goes a bit flat I don't look pregnant.
I'm writing this as I've had another bad weekend of diarrhea, bowle inflammation, pain sicky feeling, and sitting on the toilet in pain and in this weather its hell on earth 😣 I'm sweating buckets, (Roma) i take 20mg at 8am 5mg at 6.30) I've tried several ways of taking these meds.. At bedtime, afternoon, trying to keep several hours between a meal but it's the same outcome as soon as I eat it comes right through me (I keep way more than the recommended hour after taking my meds before eating or drinking it's getting to the point of me not wanting to eat, either that or don't take the meds, which I know I can't do, but I'm very tempted just to get some relief, also I'm due for my blood test after trilating from 20mg to 25mg the more I up the meds the worse the bowles /stomach become.
I feel I just can't win, I'm stuck like this🤷♀️ gp will no doubt have my colonosocopy results as I had the procedure on June 2nd and because nothing was found I'm sure no further action will be implemented, I have around 7 photos of my bowle movements😩 add to that yesterday's which look like runny cow pats.
Is this my life now? Do I just have to suck this up? What the hell can I do next, I've tried just about every thyroid medication from tablet, capsules, liquid with the same results (also with the Roma which are capsules i take the powder out, I thought that might work as maby the capsules were the cause, but I'm still suffering 😣