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> From: Marsha L. Jackson
> Now, for my question. Two weeks ago I started on Synthroid (0.05 mg). I
> want to know if I'm imagining things, or is it really possible to feel
the
> effects of the Synthroid almost immediately?
> Now, however, after just a couple of weeks, I feel the fatigue creeping
> back in. Sometimes I think I've read too much.
Good for you in requesting the test!
I was first dx'd six years ago.  The day that I took my first dose ( a
small fraction of the dose that I wound up on) I felt as if I had been
given the greatest drug in the world.  That feeling only lasted a short
while before I again felt hypo.  It took eight months to get my meds right
(@ .2 synthroid).  That worked ok but not great until two years ago when I
got really sick.  My T4 and TSH levels looked good, but I was getting
sicker every month. It wasn't until I started reading this list that I
found how to be well again. (for me the answer was switching to armour
thyroid 3gr.)  So... keep a good eye on your symptoms, insist that the docs
listen to you, and trust your instincts.  What the docs say about thyroid
replacement doesn't always turn out that way in real life.  There  is no
such thing as reading too much!  If I had listened only to my doc I would
still be living in pain, unable to care for my family.
The best of fortune to you!
Alice Shawyer