Re: what are alternatives to levothyroxine apart from armour?

[Guest guest]

Hi Carole

If you feel you have bowel problems that you feel might be

associated with taking synthetic levothyroxine, do mention this to your GP.

Some people are allergic to the fillers in levothyroxine and if this is the

case, your GP can prescribe you the pure version that is available from

dales Pharmaceuticals. This is pure T4 in a jelly capsule. Your GP should

be able to give you a prescription for this. However, if you feel it could be

undiagnosed IBS, then talk to your GP about this. Diagnosis is usually made via

symptoms. Look at this link http://www.webmd.com/ibs/guide/irritable-bowel-syndrome-ibs-exams-and-tests

Luv - Sheila

I made an app for GP on 11th and would like to

go there knowing my alternatives to taking levothyroxine if I can.

I think lev is causing my very unwanted bowel problem because the date I

started noting it down is a few days after I started to take it.

[Guest guest]

Could the pill fillers, eg- maize flour and lactose, be the culprit? If they are

then you will need to avoid taking any pills with such things in. Is there a way

of finding out if you are lactose intolerant?

Tracey

[Guest guest]

Carole, my IBS symptoms are definitely to do with being UNDER medicated - regardless of blood tests in normal range.

When under medicated (which for me means no T3) just thyroxine I get the symptoms.

When getting T3 (even if not the optimal amount) I have NO IBS symptoms at all. They went exactly one month after getting T3 again and it comes back within a few days of T3 being stopped.

As over the years I have been on thyroxine alone, and on T3, then stopped, then on it again and EVERY time this happens, so to me there is no doubt whatsoever what it is in my case.

Lilian

[Guest guest]

-Carole please see the message I 'bumped' about IBS and digestive problems.

That I only came across this just a few days is just too much of a coincidence

not to bump it for you to at least have a look at - doesnt matter if it doesnt

apply. I would rather you review and discard than not have the chance to

reserarch this. Especially when it was so very easily fixed.

Freeman

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> Maybe its the hypo or undiagnosed IBS and not the pills at all, but Id still

like to make sure so Im not suffering needlessly, hence asking about

alternatives that are not armour because she wont give that.

>

> sorry for the unpleasant part of topic.

>

> Carole

>

[Guest guest]

Hi Sheila,

I told my GP right after starting it but she said it wasnt connected and didnt

do anything, now I probably have a bit more oomph to push and find out. If I can

keep that thought in my head till I see her. I was bought up not to disagree

with Drs so it comes harder to do it now. I expect many older (54) people are

same.

thanks for link

Carole

" Sheila " <sheila@...> wrote:

>

> Hi Carole

>

> If you feel you have bowel problems that you feel might be associated with

> taking synthetic levothyroxine, do mention this to your GP.

if you feel it could be

> undiagnosed IBS, then talk to your GP about this. Diagnosis is usually made

> via symptoms. Look at this link

> http://www.webmd.com/ibs/guide/irritable-bowel-syndrome-ibs-exams-and-tests

>

>

>

> Luv - Sheila

>

>

>

> I made an app for GP on 11th and would like to go there knowing my

> alternatives to taking levothyroxine if I can.

>

> I think lev is causing my very unwanted bowel problem because the date I

> started noting it down is a few days after I started to take it.

>

[Guest guest]

I did an expensive home blood test for allergies twice, apparantly I react to

rye (never have that!) but not wheat and not milk so presume not lactose

either. Will mention it though. Thanks for idea.

Carole

>

> Could the pill fillers, eg- maize flour and lactose, be the culprit? If they

are then you will need to avoid taking any pills with such things in. Is there a

way of finding out if you are lactose intolerant?

>

> Tracey

>

[Guest guest]

Hi lilian

thanks for that info, thats helpful to know.

Will see soon hopefully

thanks

Carole

>

> Carole, my IBS symptoms are definitely to do with being UNDER medicated -

regardless of blood tests in normal range.

>>

[Guest guest]

>>>> I was bought up not to disagree with Drs so it comes harder to do it now. I expect many older (54) people are same.<<<<<Not any more, since my parents relied on what the GP told them when my father should have taken my mother straight to hospital. This caused her eventual death.

Not any more since the A & E sent my father home saying there was nothing wrong when he was having a heart attack - and he told them he was. This caused his eventual death.

Not any more when I saw my best friend die of cancer when the GP told her there was nothing wrong with her, and even asked her husband if she was faking not being well and losing weight. If you saw her anybody could see she was extremely ill.

Not any more when a friend of my husband's was similarly thrown out of his doctor's surgery for wasting his time - and who died of bowel cancer.

Not any more since it took the medical profession 4 years to diagnose my sister with hypothyroidism, after she lost a lot of her hair, instrumental in her divorce, and her losing all the lovely years of her daughter because she was too tired to look after her.

Not any more since I was feeling so ill, with all the hypothyroid symptoms, but because TSH was in range was completely IGNORED.

Not even attempting to see if symptoms were caused by something else. Maybe GP knew they weren't.

Not any more since it was me who found out I had pernicious anaemia and other things wrong with me. I should not have had to do a private blood test to find this out, it is serious and the GP should have done something and not ignored my symptoms (as paragraph above).

Lilian

[Guest guest]

I'm afraid we often have to learn the hard way that we can't rely on the NHS,

particularly as they can be most insistent that you should.

My older son was immunised against whooping cough, and shortly afterwards went

down with it - so much for immunisations! After a few weeks he was quite ill so

I took him to the doctor who gave antibiotics. When that course ran out I could

see he was deteriorating again, but the second doctor I saw refused to give more

antibiotics. So I took my son home and he suffered a febrile convulsion. I

called an ambulance and he was rushed to hospital where - guess what - they gave

him antibiotics. He had pneumonia for a while, but recovered. He nearly died

because the second GP had refused the antibiotics.

I think the problem is that doctors pick up the idea in medical school

(perpetuated by drug company hype) that modern medicine is at the pinnacle of

knowledge, when in fact it is still in the dark ages.

Miriam

> >>>> I was bought up not to disagree with Drs so it comes harder to do it now.

I expect many older (54) people are same.<<<<<

>

> Not any more, since my parents relied on what the GP told them when my father

should have taken my mother straight to hospital. This caused her eventual

death. . . .