Ok so 3 years ago after the birth of my first son I was diagnosed with hypothyroid. [Underactive]
As soon as I got put on medication for it, I lost 15 lbs immediately after trying several months to lose weight with strict diet and exercise and not shedding a single pound.
SO now, I just had my daughter 2 months ago and am trying to lose weight for my wedding that is fast aproaching. I’ve been on a very strict diet and exercising 3 times a week. I am not losing weight at all (only lost the babys weight) so I went to get my levels checked to make sure my hormones n all that good stuff are ok.
TURNS out, my bloodwork says my levels are over and my docs lowering my perscription dose! How is this if I’m not losing weight and have no energy!?
Well I just renewed my old perscription of levothroid .125 mcg and am considering not giving the pharamacy my new perscription .1 mcg …what’s happens if I do that? Will keeping my old larger dose perscription help me lose this weight faster??!!
Please help!
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Are you crazy?
Is weight more important then health??
Your body got used to the drug.
Excess thyroxin:
* Increases cardiac output
* Increases heart rate
* Increases ventilation rate
* Increases basal metabolic rate
* Potentiates the effects of catecholamines (i.e increases sympathetic activity)
* Potentiates brain development
* Thickens endometrium in females
Get a copy of your labs and see what is being checked and what your levels are.
You want to be sure that your thyroid hormone levels are being checked, and are at the correct levels within their ranges, and in relation to each other. If the are simply ‘in normal range’ but at the low end.. you are actually still hypo, with insufficient hormone.
Have you even been given a diagnosis? Or just been told that you are hypo? Depending your diagnosis, your REASON for being hypothyroid you may actually need your thyroid levels to be higher and your TSH level to be very low… If, for example, you have Hashi’s, and your TSH level has remained high enough to allow your thyroid gland to continue to function and that activity has stimulated another antibody attack… as that attack subsides, a gland that has not been too greatly damaged may go into over drive, elevating thyroid hormone levels.
There are many factors that have to be considered when determining the proper dosage and a very important one is symptoms….
You could be dealing with improper conversion, causing an excess of Reverse T3 to be produced, Reverse T3 blocks T3 hormone receptors, preventing Free T3 from attaching to those hormone receptors. So the labs are going to show excess hormone levels in the blood, not because you have an actual surplus of hormone, but bebecauseour body is unable to use it and so the hormone is still in the blood stream, showing as elevated numbers when the labs are run.
Excess dieting can cause an increase in Reverse T3 hormone production. So it’s not inconceivable, if the changes in your caloric intake has been restricted too much, that your body has shifted how it’s converting the hormone that you have been taking…
So instead of the T4 (Levo) that you are taking is getting converted to a higher percentage of Reverse T3 rather than Free T3…. there is your imbalance.
On the other hand… you don’t mess around with your dose, either. you need to be sure of what is going on.. just as too little hormone is bad for you, so is too much.
My first step would be to get copies of those labs and see what the numbers show..
Excessive thyroid medication can cause death. Do not expect to lose more than 1 or 2 pounds per week.