I have been on Levothyroxine for about 6 months. The first few days on this medication I had terrible constipation and difficulty to sleep at night. I also experienced these whenever I increase my dosage. I have not noticed much improvement with symptoms. I still feel cold and hair fall so bad. I also started to develop lower back pain and the pain just seem to get worse as the days went by. Levothyroxine which I was taking contains lactose as a filler. I started breaking out as well especially around my neck due to me being intolerant to dairy. I feel like quiting the pill but I want to do it safely. My last blood test reveal that my TSH was slightly elevated than the previous result.This was due to happen when you start with a starter dose of levo. So I have increased my dosage from 25 mcg to50 mcg to 75mcg to final increase of 100mcg and I was still not feeling any better. At this point I really started asking myself if this medication really suits me. I was also supplementing on selenium to help my body to convert T4 to T3 but still I am not seeing any results. I was getting frustrated. I feel like I was just going round and around the same circle without any answers and improvement. But I never stopped reading and educating myself on this topic. Thanks to all the functional Doctors and Scientist who have worked so hard researching on thyroid problems, because of their dedication and hard work, today we can feel better and learn so much from them. I feel that we should be the advocate of our own health.doctors are only there to do what they have been thought to do. You must listen to your body, listen to every symptoms your body is trying to tell you.
So when I changed my medication to Natural dessicated thyroid (NDT), here is when I start to notice improvement in my symptoms. I started on low dosage and I split it two times a day. I take one in the morning, an hour before food and the second dose at 2 pm around 4 hours after my breakfast. On the first day itself I start to notice a good raise in my resting heart rate, my hands were warmer and the best part was that my back pain almost fully gone. Wow!!!! all of that just on one day of taking NDT. I was just shocked at the improvement. I wish that I have started with NDT sooner but hey Its better late than never right?....
Why did NDT helped a lot? why Levothyroxine was not helping at all?
Levothyroxine - Synthetic, contain only T4, some brand contain gluten or lactose
Natural Dessicated Thyroid - Natural, contains T4/T3/T2/T1/calcitonin, allergen free
So now we all understand why Levothyroxine fails in every aspect and NDT won my vote. NDT was feeding my body direct T3. My body was seeing the benefits on NDT. I have Increased energy, my back pain gone almost fully, acne around my neck vanished. my resting heart rate is raised to healthy levels. I thank to god for making my journey easier. Its been only 2 weeks since I'm on NDT so lets see what else will NDT bring to my life. I'm really looking forward to go for my next blood test to see what my throid panel test reads. I will update this post again after I get the results, Tchuss and till we meet again in my next blog.
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