I'm not going to try any over-the-counter stuff until the doctors have had a chance to figure it out. Otherwise, if lab results are awry, I won't know whether it's a result of a supplement or something else.
Same as before. I think it relates to the higher dose of levothyroxine, but maybe it's something else.
Are your "cold" symptoms getting worse too? If the severe headache is the main problem and that severe headache started around the same time as that big increase in your meds...I would definitely touch base with the Doctor who prescribed the meds. But then as smart as you are Ken...I am sure you already have thought of that and I didn't really need to bring it up to you. But I care....so I did.
Yeah, the headache started a few hours after taking my first larger dose but then, the cold began that same day too, so I don't know for sure yet.
Well report those findings to your Doc...and see what he thinks is going on. It can't hurt, and he just might want to "tweek" that med...or whatever.
I am still taking the high dose of levothyroxine but, for the past couple of days, I have been waking up without a headache. After taking my levothyroxine in the morning, the headache starts but I can get it to go away (mostly) with one Aleve, and it doesn't come back until about a half hour after I take my levothyroxine the next morning. So that's getting better.
It definitely sounds like that headache is related to the higher dose of levothyroxine. Hope this keeps getting better for you.
Glad it's getting better, eventually I guess it will disappear. I e never been on such a high dose, so don't feel any side effects but good to know that headache could be one.
I am doing a low iodide diet right now, in preparation for the radioactive iodine injections that I will be getting later this month. The idea, I guess, is for any remaining thyroid tissue that may be cancerous to be starving for iodide, so that it will take in the radioactive dose, helping to target it. The precautions after the radioactive dose is to spend most of my time in a room separate from my wife for a few days, and not an isolation recommendation, but since I have cats who like to sleep with me at night and spend most of their day near me, I will be staying in a hotel for a few days. I will have appointments in Bangor three days in a row and, since that's a seventy mile drive from here, I'll get a hotel in Bangor for a couple of nights. Then, after I get the radioactive dose, I'll stay for a few days at a hotel here in Millinocket. I won't have to be completely isolated, so I'm sure my wife will want me home to clean the litter boxes and do any snow blowing that might need to be done, but I don't want to expose my cats to anything that could be harmful.
@Ken Anderson Your abilities to accept these circumstances seem so much greater than would be mine. I can only attribute that to my "chicken" attitude. Apparently, the radiation intensity of the injections is higher than I would have thought. I know I tried an analysis of some of this earlier, which was actually rather heartless but instead clinical, and your response then was one of hurting. I apologize for that one. One can only pray the medicos know and understand the exact circumstances. Hoping and wishing for the best possible outcome for you, Ken. Frank
That's because it assumed a naiveté on my part that I found insulting. Not a big deal really, but that was the reason for the reaction.
@Ken Anderson You are the most-upfront forum leader I have encountered. That is most appreciated. Frank