Levo increase effects?

[Obsdian]

I have been ill with low thyroid symptoms since the start of April. Thereabouts April 24 ish I started an increase of levothyroxine from 50 to 75.

I've been starting to feel better extremely slowly from feeling ill but I can't tell if that's the meds increase or just what would have happened anyway.

I have started to feel a bit hungry, as I haven't really felt hungry in many months that is quite new so must be a sign the increase is having an effect.

I am also having a lot more dreams. Is that a sign levothyroxine is working? I'm not exactly findkng more dreams helpful as I feel less rested with more dreams.

My mood is slightly better as well.

[SlowDragon Administrator]

sounds like you are moving in right direction

Retest after 6- 8 weeks on current dose

[Jingley]

Before I was diagnosed my appetite was zero, I had constant backache and had to sit down and have a rest after I'd crawled downstairs every morning. (Hardly surprising as at diagnosis my TSH was 120 and T4 below 4 )I ate because it was mealtimes, not because I was hungry. The amount I was eating was really small and I felt like I'd eaten a banquet after a couple of mouthfuls.

Just a couple of months after starting Levo, just after my first increase, we went away for a few days and ordered a takeaway pizza one night. That was the best tasting pizza ever and I scoffed the lot and thoroughly enjoyed it.

So I would say, from my own experience, your Levo is beginning to have some positive effects.🙂

Onwards and upwards.

[Obsdian in reply to Jingley]

Up to just over a week ago breakfast was still making me gag. Like you said eating felt like a banquet evenif it was eating on an empty stomach.

[FallingInReverse]

yes! I knew it was “starting to work” when my husband noted - wow, you ate everything on your plate!!!!

I was like - wow, I did!

For years my family would remark that I ate like a bird… I would just say - I’m never hungry! Now I have probably an even amount of not hungry vs. hungry days : )

Never a straight line, but yes, going in the right direction!!! Congrats!