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: This manufacturer needs a class action law suit. This stuff need to be taken off the market and FDA INVESTIGATION. SW
swanee2009 9 Apr 2018
I stopped taking my thyroid meds and lost a few pounds. I’m not gonna take it anymore, I felt miserable with the weight o gained while taking it. AL
alex1105 1 Sep 2018
Hello,
Actually this is not as uncommon as you would imagine. 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.