Title: Can Levothyroxine make you gain weight? - Thyroid UK
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Can Levothyroxine make you gain weight?
Feeling alone with a thyroid condition?
Feeling alone with a thyroid condition?
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Content: Remember also that your T4 is a storage hormone and it may well take several weeks before your body is depleted and you once again feel unwell....also less to convert into the ACTIVE T 3.....
Julia187 8 years ago
I continued to gain weight when I first started on Levo, it took 18 months and calorie counting to get rid of 6st, I still have 1st to go but I had to be very disciplined with my diet and would often go for weeks and weeks with no weight loss which I'm sure is due to my thyroid. Hidden 8 years ago
Similar experience here - I put on 5 stone in a year when they zapped my thyroid and put me on levo 5 years ago. Glib doctors advised dieting, but dieting didn't make an ounce of difference. Very upsetting. At least my weight reached a plateau and I could start buying clothes again without growing out of them in a few months - even if they did have to be 4 sizes bigger! Now I'm using thyroid S and have lost half a stone this year. Fingers x-ed this slow weight loss is going to continue. If I can reach a lower, plateau a stone or so lower I might try dieting again. The killer is trying to keep weight off, of course. I'm not recommending thyroid S - each one of us has a different reaction to the different meds available, as this site demonstrates in Spades.