Title: Has anyone experienced major weight gain after starting Levothyroxine?
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Has anyone experienced major weight gain after starting Levothyroxine?
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Content: Sometimes the issue is conversion. You may be converting the T4 to reverse T3 and this Reverse T3 is docking in the T3 receptor sites and disabling them form being activated by actual T3. Ask your doctor to check a RT3 and if its >10%, decrease the T4 and add T3 . you may want to do a 2 week washout period from the levo ( refrain from taking it altogether) to lower your RT3 and T4
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Oceanlady 14 Sep 2018
If you're a health care professional and you haven't heard that Synthroid or Levothyroxine will cause weight gain, you're completely out of touch. I was 50 yrs old when diagnosed, had already had three children and had only weighed 107 9 mos. pregnant. Absolutely nothing made me gain weight. I weighed 98 at age 50 and within five mos., I had gained 17 lbs. This is a very common complaint, and nobody seems to be able to explain it or care.