Swelling In Legs And Feet Levothyroxine (Page 3)

I just started taking Levothyroxine 2 wks ago my legs and feet are swollen so bad by nite I can barley walk. They go down a little at nite but swell back. I am taking 25mcg and I am afraid to continue taking this med. Has any one else had this problem?

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I have the same only not as bad - my doctor said it was my high blood pressure medicine - I'm calling her tomorrow

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I was initially told it was the amlodipine I was taking for blood pressure. NOT. The swelling didn't go away with a change of B/P medication. The swelling has gone away now that I have been back on dessicated thyroid for about 3 weeks. Now all gone and they don't swell at all anymore. I am a nurse and should know better. I had been off the thyroid meds before but never had my legs swell before now.

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I am on levothyroxine and began having foot, ankle, and lower leg swelling 3 weeks ago. Putting my feet up helped slightly. Boswellia, curcumin did not help but Bromelain gave significant relief. I have ordered Bromelain, but until it arrives I am eating fresh pineapple. The core has the most. I will also check with my doctor.

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It is called myxedema. It is more common for it to affect the face, eyes, tongue. I have had it where I bit the side of my tongue or the inside of my cheek while chewing. The leg swelling, pitting edema over my tibias aka "pretibial edema" is new to me. I actually had to look it up and I am a RN and hypothyroid for many years.

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That is what worries me about all of this thyroid stuff, and the posts, and medications, legs swelling, red, hot, on fire, half way up calves, dry dry skin, etc. etc. I have suffered with the swelling for a while now and Norvasc also causes it. Got off Norvasc and was getting better. Ran out of Levothiroxine for 6 days and my feet, and legs got even better. Took my first one again yesterday and I am back with my feet, ankles, calves, swollen, bright red, hot, searing hot pain, and I cant take it. Seriously over last weekend I had on tennis shoes and now I would never get them on again! This all got worse when I suffered my first bout of Cellulitis and was in the hospital for 4 days and it did not hurt this bad. So there is something between thyroid, cellultis, norvasc, and I have been on those meds for years, and have slowly then more rapidly been developing the feet, ankle swelling. I tell the doctors and they just ho and hum, but my one new doctor took me off the Norvasc and thank god my feet started to go down immediately. But now......I get back on that thyroid medication and I am on fire.........We are all in a bad way and it appears no one has any answers for us and this leads to thin skin, sores, oozing, and now I have like a bruise under a very thin strip of thin skin and I do not know if I hit something or it just appeared? We need to find someone specializing in thyroid medication, and the practice of.......the thyroid

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See if you can get changed to either bioidentical thyroid med or a dessicated product. Synthroid is only T4 and doesn't work for everyone. Many need the T4 and T3 found in both the dessicated and bioidentical products.

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I was also told it could be the Norvasc aka amlodipine and switched to lisinopril. It made no difference in the pretibial edema. The NP who saw me didn't recognize the swelling as a thyroid issue and thought it was from the B/P med. Big Pharma has most doctors duped into using the synthetic synthroid. As I said, it will make your labs look great, but frequently does not alleviate the actual physical condition and outward signs. Thyroid issues are not a simple cause and effect scenario as is something like strep throat. It is not unusual to also have adrenal involvement, especially if the thyroid issues are long standing. I carry a diagnosis of fibromyalgia. I am not so sure, after all these years that this is an accurate diagnosis. Fibromyalgia may be part of the issue, but I doubt it is the sole cause of my misery. This is a multifaceted disease process. There is a triad of glands involved: pituitary, thyroid and probably the adrenals in most people. A complex communication system exists between the three. I would suggest a book called "The Calcium Lie". Improperly treated this myriad of issues can, and often does lead to other maladies like Type 2 diabetes. The key to treatment lies in finding a good doctor who is willing to "think outside the box". You can sometimes find someone near you listed in a practitioners list on the internet. I have decided to pursue the strategy in the good doctor's book "The Calcium Lie". I think most who read it will find many of his observations resonate with thyroid patients. Lord knows that over the 12 years I have pursued a "cure" I have tried darn near everything. What's one more protocol? I believe that my issues are not as simple as "thyroid". I also believe this is the case for most sufferers of fibromyalgia. I think that the causes are multifaceted and include potential heavy metal exposure as in with our annual dose of mercury with flu shots, residue from roundup sprayed on our food. I have come to believe that the "cure" or even effective treatment will involve changes in medication, addition of a balanced mineral supplement, and most importantly changes in diet.

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i am on Levothyroxin 175 mcg my feet and ankles are so swallen and sore and gross looking have no shoes that fit cause my feet are so hughly swallen i no its the thyriod med cause thats when it started

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I posted earlier. Well, Bromelain relieved some of the foot and lower leg swelling but not all. I started taking Dandelion root tea daily and my feet are almost back to normal.

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Good info! Thanks. I was taking 150 mg of Tirosint for two years while suffering from swollen feet and ankles for a year and a half. Ironically after consulting with my endocrinologist, who offered no help, I switched to Armour just as a long shot. Less than two weeks later the swelling is finally gone and I feel much less depressed and have more motivation than I have had in years. Too bad I had to waste the time and money getting all that blood work and ultrasounds just to find out I was having a reaction to the thyroid med. For those of you having similar issues, don't give up. Insist your Dr. Give you options.

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Well my doctor suggested I remain off levothyroxine for now, added a combination herbal diuretic, kelp, and blue green algae. My feet are almost back to normal, my turkey neck is a third the size and I feel better. I am sure we will be doing blood tests soon. I had been on levothyroxine for several years before swelling started so it wouldn't be adjustment problems. It isn't just straight hypothyroidism since its improving off levothyroxine. The causality escapes me.

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My swelling has not gone away. I was 125 and now 150 mg. I was told my level was too low a month ago and I hadn't had it checked in almost a year. I personally don't know what the answer is except the med is no good.

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I am not surprised at all that your swelling issues have resolved. Armour is a glandular product and contains both T3 and T4 as well as T1 and T2. Glandular or compounded bioidentical products are far superior to Synthroid (levothyroxine) for treating hypothyroid conditions. Synthroid is a pure T4 product. Many with hypothyroid have plenty of T4, but have difficulty turning it into T3 which is the bioactive form. The body converts T4 to T3 as the body's energy requirements change.

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My feelings also. All of the symptoms I was having along with weight gain are all still there. Nothing has changed at all except maybe I SWEAT MORE all of the dang time and I hate it.

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I have been taking.88 mcg of synthroid for 8 yrs. Have hypo thyroidism. I was just changed to 100 mcg.last week. 7 days ago. Three days ago I started swelling in my feet, legs, both hands & am getting worse. Thought I would check here to see if its possibly my synthroid bc that's only change that was made w my health issues. Now that I know it could be this, my mother says Stop Taking! I took one synthroid already this morning. Darn! Thanks for sharing your experience bc I had no idea! Hoping you are better! Calling my Dr Monday morning!

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Thank you for all this info.! I will check about getting this book.

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Yep, and alot of other medications cause foot, ankle, calf swelling I have found out over the years. Blood pressure medicine, steroids ie prednisone, cortizone and the thyroid medications. In the beginning its not too bad but what it is doing in the long run is narrowing our blood vessels and thus the blood flow. Cuts off circulation worse with age. So its a catch 22 again that medications are bad for you too but what is worth? The medications or the diseases?

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My latest tsh test showed I was too low. I was raised to one fifty mg from one twenty five mg. I am also anemic and.was told.to take iron.I'm not sure about taking iron but I feel weak.

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I. also had a case of preorbital cellulitis and my face was swollen upnto my hair line and developed scabs and now I'm waiting for red marks to fade. Had to go to emergency rm and was given clindamycin and had a fever.

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I had the same problem in the past to the pint that I couldn't walk, or lift my leg, or climb the stairs. It got so bad that I quit taking it all together. It got back to normal after a while.
A new doctor put me on meds again few days ago. And the same problem started to happen again.

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