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Weight gain "mystery"
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<blockquote data-quote="Litehiker" data-source="post: 1565795" data-attributes="member: 54178"><p>LB,</p><p>I would ask your doc to change your thyroxin prescription from Synthoid to NP Thyroid, which is a <em>natural</em> form of thyroxin. I was on Levothyroxin and it was useless but that's the only drug Medicare paid for. Now I pay ALL of my thyroid medicine cost. Used to be Medicare would pay the difference between approved generics and other meds but Obamacare savings cuts in Medicare screwed that when the drug formulary was drastically changed to pay for Obamacare sometime around 2015 or '16.</p><p></p><p>Yes, you will have to have your TSH blood level (Thyroid Stimulating Hormone - from your pituitary master gland) tested every 30 days for a while until your TSH level is once again within normal range. After that it's once-a-year TSH test.</p><p></p><p>* It is essential to not get too much thyroxin dosage as it can have negative effects. Thus the 30 day monitoring.</p><p></p><p>Eric B.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Litehiker, post: 1565795, member: 54178"] LB, I would ask your doc to change your thyroxin prescription from Synthoid to NP Thyroid, which is a [I]natural[/I] form of thyroxin. I was on Levothyroxin and it was useless but that's the only drug Medicare paid for. Now I pay ALL of my thyroid medicine cost. Used to be Medicare would pay the difference between approved generics and other meds but Obamacare savings cuts in Medicare screwed that when the drug formulary was drastically changed to pay for Obamacare sometime around 2015 or '16. Yes, you will have to have your TSH blood level (Thyroid Stimulating Hormone - from your pituitary master gland) tested every 30 days for a while until your TSH level is once again within normal range. After that it's once-a-year TSH test. * It is essential to not get too much thyroxin dosage as it can have negative effects. Thus the 30 day monitoring. Eric B. [/QUOTE]
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