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Welcome To Jubilee Health ... Frequently Asked Questions
To function properly the body requires certain basic nutritional elements including vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes and antioxidants. Unfortunately our diets today do not always provide us with what we need in sufficient quantities. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture almost half of us are deficient in at least one significant nutrient. In order to maintain vibrant health we may need a nutritional supplement to meet our needs. LEVOXYL QUESTIONS Hi, I am taking Levoxyl. Can you please advise what the side effects to this drug are and if there is a homeopathic substitute for this drug. PC, Orange, CA Levoxyl is prescribed for thyroid hormone replacement or hypothroidism. Because drugs affect each person differently the side effects can be quite varied. The main side effects to this drug are: Decrease bone mineral density in post menopausal women. Try to avoid this drug if you have cardiovascular disease such as heart arrythmias, increased heart rate, coronary insufficienty. Also read about the various side effects that people have written to us about. I was diagnosed with a sluggish thyroid and the dr put me on 50 mcg of levoxyl. I had all of these symptoms of low thyroid hormones and didn't know it. I never put all the problems to the same culprit. I had very bad muscle aches, with or without exercise. I kept thinking I had bruised or torn something. I also had weight gain. Nothing, I mean nothing would help me lose weight. I've gained 20 pounds. Which also caused depression. Sometimes I would have low blood sugar, when I've never had problems with blood sugar before. I was very tired all the time. I felt like I couldn't make it in the evenings and some mornings. I would complain that I felt like I had just caught a cold - really drained and tired. I have really severe allergies and couldn't figure out why. After starting the meds I felt bad the first day - diarhea, nausea. Then for the next couple of days I felt great. Then the fourth day I couldn't sleep and felt shaky and had nausea only at night... I feel like levoxyl makes me retain fluid. Anyone else experience this? I have extreme fatigue, bordering on Narcolepsy- falling asleep while driving or at work sitting in my chair. Weight gain despite all efforts (working out and eating right). Rapid, pounding heartbeat. Can't concentrate -easily distracted. Period is irregular and very heavy during some days. I have told my doctor about these symptoms but she says there isn't much she can do. I have to wait until I see a specialist. It has taken me 3 months to get in to see one. If the specialist says that I have to keep taking this drug, I will stop taking it and find another doctor... I have been taking Levoxyl now for about 6 months, 75mcg and have developed pain in my hands and hips, I have also lost most of my sex drive and find it extremely frustrating at best. I plan to stop this medication and determine if the side effects are coming from this product. I was told I would feel much better with more "pep" and all I feel is tired and in pain. I have had episodes of lip swelling/tingling. Occasionally, I have swelling and pain in my finger joints. I have recently begun to have pain in my hip. The doctor seems to think it is not possible to have an adverse reaction to this drug. I was referred to an allergist. However, I believe the above problems are related to levoxyl. I have been taking it for 3 months. Since taking this drug I have experienced knee(s) problem. Going up or down stairs is becoming a great challenge for me. I suddenly have arthritic symptoms, that I never had before. When I wake up in the morning and after I sit for any length of time. My ankles, leg and now my back are stiff. When I start to walk, I have to slowly straighten myself before I can take the first step. What do you think? Any relationship to Levoxyl? Good God! What does all of this mean?! Is ANYBODY paying any attention to this, or do we all need to get together and petition the FDA? Just the fact that presumably all of these folk writing in were in enough pain and turmoil to seek answers through the internet speaks volumes, doesn't it? Anyhow, let me add my two cents' worth: I'm living in Greece so taking a European version of synthetic T4 (called, creatively enough, "T4"!) (Novartis is the manufacturer) and I'm finally so screwed up and concerned that I'm looking here there and everywhere else for answers. I was a pretty damned healthy 40-ish woman and suddenly I feel, as so many others have said, 100 years old ... FYI, I'm on the lowest dose available, i.e. 50 mg/day. In the beginning I felt better because my periodic feelings of extreme fatigue went away, but the heart problems are making me a nervous, frightened wreck! I begin to prefer just plain ol' Hashimoto's thyroiditis with a slow dip toward hypothyroidism rather than this nonsense. At least then I didn't feel like I was on death's door! The mail from the woman who woke up with pounding, racing heart struck me the most, as it's the pulsating and skipped beats and the rest that are driving me to distraction. I've worn a holter monitor for 24 hours and discovered that I "only" now have tachycardia, but suddenly I'm on TWO meds for the rest of my life (when I was never on any previously, short of a tylenol for an occasional headache ... quite a change, and not a very welcome one!) one for HEART problems! AND I'm still relatively young AND I now officially feel like s**t?! Amazing, all of this. Drug companies pleasing their stockholders while a huge number of us go slowly crazy? Would appreciate it if people who've succesfully gone off synthetic T4 would write and tell me their stories, particularly their experience with the Armour alternative (not that I know if it's available over here, but at this point, I'd happily fly over to the States a couple times a year to get it if it would end this misery!!) Thanks to all and COURAGE!
Naturopaths have long recognized that there are very effective herbs that can help to promote healthy thyroid functioning and restore thyroid health. Homeopathic remedies do not interfere with the natural healing process of the body. On the contrary, they stimulate the body organs to restore normal body function. With regard to hypothyroidism, this would mean that homeopathic treatments reactivate hormone secretions. The main aim of homeopathy and other alternative thyroid treatments is to aid in self-healing so that synthetic products can be avoided.
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