Title: Is it safe to take levothyroxine to lose weight?
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Is it safe to take levothyroxine to lose weight?
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Marvell 27 Nov 2012
Who prescribed you levothyroxine to lose weight? Votes: +3
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nickki 116 27 Nov 2012
no one perscribe it to me a friend had a few left over so i been taking them i am aware that i should not take someone else drugs but i tried it even though i dont have a thyroid problem currently i am taking 0.50MG before breakfast what can this do to my body if i have a normal thyroid function
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Marvell 27 Nov 2012
It is definitely not right to introduce extra hormones into your body, if you don't need it. Too much of something can cause problems and as thyroid hormones can also affect the production of other hormones... your body could be doing things which are not ideal. If you want to lose weight, see you doctor and get a weight loss medicine. https://www.drugs.com/condition/weight-loss.html
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TheBerg1964 13 Aug 2013
I took thyroid medication for the same reasons years ago. I ended up with no loss of weight but I developed an actual underactive thyroid problem. Is that what caused it? Who knows but if I had it to do over again I wouldn't have done that.