What happens if I stop taking synthroid if I’m not supposed to?
hopie q
I had been taking synthroid for a little over a year. A couple of months ago I went off all meds to clean out my system. I wasn’t aware of any contraindications for abruptly discontinuing synthroid. Since then I started to lose my hair, I have tremors and my skin is very dry. Can these symptoms be connected?
u are in a stage of hypothyroidism now u need to get back on them
part of the reason you are takin them is becouse your thyroid isn’t releasing the hormone that your body needs. So your doctor prescribed synthroid which is providing them. The symptoms that you are experiencing isn’t a side effect of stopping the medication it is indeed the disease process which required you to start taking them in the first place…this is all part of the treatment for Hypothyroidism, a disease where antibodies effect the thryroid and decrease the release of its hormones.
Your really need to go back on your medication dear.
You will have increased constipation, you will experience fatigue, weakness, coarse dry hair, hair loss, dry rough pale skin, cold intolerance, other people around you will be comfortable and you will be shivering, and you will have depression and memory loss. Decreased libido also.
I did this and it is just not worth it, I was dragging myself around, and I would fall asleep every time I sat down. Could never see a television program all the way through, I would wake up and say “What happened”. And the symptoms will get worse.
Connected? I’d say so. Those symptoms are directly caused by a lack of thyroid hormones in your body.