Warnings
You will be unable to utilize levothyroxine on the off chance that you have specific ailments. Let your primary care physician know if you have an untreated or uncontrolled adrenal organ issue or any heart issues, for example, a new coronary episode.
Levothyroxine ought not be utilized to treat heftiness or weight issues. Hazardous secondary effects or demise can happen from the abuse of this medication, particularly assuming you are assuming some other weight reduction meds or hunger suppressants.
Taking more than your suggested portion won’t make this medication more powerful, and may cause serious secondary effects.
Side effects
Like all prescriptions, levothyroxine can cause aftereffects, albeit not every person gets them. When you are on the right portion of levothyroxine, incidental effects ought to disappear.
Converse with your primary care physician or drug specialist in the event that you have changed to an alternate brand of levothyroxine and begin to get:
side effects of an underactive thyroid including feeling tired, weight gain or feeling discouraged
side effects of an overactive thyroid (like the normal aftereffects beneath)
You might be delicate to the new brand of levothyroxine you have been endorsed and may have to remain on the one you were taking previously.
Common side effects
The common side effects of levothyroxine usually happen because the dose you’re taking is more than you need. These side effects usually go away after you go on to a lower dose of levothyroxine or stop treatment.
Common side effects are the same as the symptoms of an overactive thyroid. There are things you can do to help cope with them.
Levothyroxine and pregnancy
Levothyroxine is protected to take in pregnancy.
It’s essential to continue taking levothyroxine all through your pregnancy. Having too low or too elevated degrees of thyroid chemical in pregnancy can bring on some issues for yourself as well as your child.
You’ll have to have ordinary blood tests during pregnancy to ensure you’re on the right portion of levothyroxine. Your PCP might have to expand your portion of levothyroxine while you’re pregnant.
Levothyroxine and breastfeeding
It’s alright to breastfeed while you’re on levothyroxine. Thyroid chemicals are an ordinary piece of bosom milk. At the point when taken as an enhancement they just pass into bosom milk in minuscule sums that are excessively little to influence your child.
On the off chance that you’re breastfeeding, you must keep on taking levothyroxine, as this is supplanting what your body would regularly be making. Your body needs great degrees of thyroid chemicals to make sufficient bosom milk for your child.
In the event that you notice that your child isn’t taking care of as well not surprisingly, or on the other hand on the off chance that you have some other worries about your child, converse with your maternity specialist, wellbeing guest, drug specialist or specialist straightaway.
