What are the possible side effects of Synthroid medication used for Thyroid Treatments?

Curious that you exhibit the signs and symptoms of HYPERthyroidism but that your thyroid hormone levels have returned normal after testing. But even more curious is the fact that you are exhibiting HYPERthyroid symptoms at all: Hashimoto's thyroiditis (or, autoimmune thyroiditis) can sometimes manifest as hyper thyroid function in the very acute stage of inflammation (auto-immune antibodies attacking the thyroid and the thyroid releasing much of it's pre-made thyroid hormone) but once the indolent stage of the disease sets in it typically results in a HYPO thyroid state, that may or may not be accompanied by goiterous enlargement of the gland itself. Unusual.

Endocrinologists are pretty smart peeps so maybe give it a try. I'm not personally aware of Synthroid being able to shrink the thyroid gland itself. I do know that radioactive Iodine (either the costly I-123 or cheaper and more abundant I-131 radio-isotopes) can effectively shrink an enlarged thyroid, but the long term effect of this is almost always a hypo thyroid state (that is to say, after taking the radio active Iodine then you will need Synthroid for life in the future in order to stave off symptoms of having too little thyroid hormone).

It's a very cheap treatment and comes in a pill form. You go visit the doctor and he gives you the radioactive pill to swallow, you go home, and he follows your thyroid levels for life and eventually places you on Synthroid medication to take for life. Surgical treatment of thyroid goiter is not ideal in most people, especially since it can be treated medically.

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