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11 patient evaluations for Levothyroxine

  • Impy Ann1
    Sensation: Moderate
    Overall: Mild
    Cognition: moderate
    Vision: moderate
    Speech: mild
    Swallowing: mild
    Upper limb: mild
    Walking: moderate
  • Impy Ann1
  • by Impy Ann1
    Dec 01, 2008
dosage:
0.1mg daily
time on dosage:
about 31 years
purpose:
General health
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  • EfficacyMajor
  • Side-effectsNone
  • AdherenceAlways
  • BurdenSlight
  • General health
Advice/Tips
Take this as your blood work shows you need it, the problems of low thyroid can slip up on you and it takes the medication a long time to become effective. Never increase without proper blood work. NEVER decrease without same and never let a thyroid test done while you are in the hospital under stress be used as a basis for treatment level. This happened to me last year and it took all year for my family doctor to get my levels correct again.
Burden
Cost. I cannot use generic as it is not recommended that anyone use generic on thyroid medication.
Cost
$25-49 monthly
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  • josie-jojo
    Depression: 1
    Emotional: 1
    Compulsion: 0
    Anxiety: 1
    Mania: 0
    Physical: 1
    External Stress: Severe
    40 F
    Function: High
    Distress: Low
  • by josie-jojo
    Nov 27, 2008
dosage:
0.1mg daily
time on dosage:
about 5 years
purpose:
Under-active thyroid (hypothyroidism)
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  • EfficacyMajor
  • Side-effectsNone
  • AdherenceUsually
  • BurdenSlight
  • Under-active thyroid (hypothyroidism)
Burden
remembering to take first thing in the morning. waiting 1 hour before eating or drinking anything but water after taking synthroid.
Cost
less than $25 monthly
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  • ShannonandJohn
    Mental Symptoms: severe
    Physical Symptoms: moderate
    Advanced Symptoms/Infections/Cancers: severe
    377
    VL 91k
  • ShannonandJohn
  • by ShannonandJohn
    Nov 16, 2008
dosage:
0.125mg daily
time on dosage:
about 2 months
purpose:
General health
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  • EfficacyNone
  • Side-effectsNone
  • AdherenceAlways
  • BurdenNone
  • General health
Advice/Tips
Necessary for Hypothyroidism
Cost
less than $25 monthly
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  • HopeLives
    Sensation: None
    Overall: None
    Cognition: mild
    Vision: moderate
    Speech: none
    Swallowing: none
    Upper limb: mild
    Walking: mild
  • HopeLives
  • by HopeLives
    Nov 12, 2008
dosage:
0.05mg daily
time on dosage:
about 2 months
purpose:
Under-active thyroid (hypothyroidism)
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  • EfficacyNone
  • Side-effectsMild
  • AdherenceAlways
  • BurdenSlight
  • Under-active thyroid (hypothyroidism)
Advice/Tips
My internist did not know how to treat me with taking tysabri so he just gave me this rx to see if it would work. My tsh level was 3. After trying it for a couple of months he said that I did not need it.
Specific side-effects
dry mouth
Fatigue
Burden
Had to take it every morning before breakfast which I did take it daily but I was not hungry for breakfast or lunch. I had to make myself eat dinner at night.
Cost
less than $25 monthly
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