What would happen if I did not take my medicine that the doctor prescribed for me for inactive thyroid?
I have an inactive thyroid and I dont like pills and I was just wondering what would happen if I didnt take them?
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- Hey, you need a good thyroid so it'll pump out the chemicals other organs need to run well. If I'm off my meds, I'd DEAD TIRED. Just call me zombie-girl. I also put on weight if I don't take thyroid medicine.
No one likes pills but, trust me, you go witout meds long enough and you'll CHEERFULLY take the pills to avoid the negative consequences of not taking them.
- I guess the doctor does not get a kick-back from the prescription. You should look up natural therapies, they may help with your problem. The problem with any pill is that they only put a 'band-aid' on the actual problem but don't attack the cause.
- If you want to live, you need to do something. It's a choice of whether you want to go naturally or regular med. But you need to pick one.
- it can also effect your HEART along with all the other problems you already heard! you could loose hair along with the weight gain. feel cold along with the tiredness...talk to your dr. about all this! it's very important that you continue taking this med, you could also ask your pharmacist!!!
- someone already said it but its so important I will repeat it
you dont watn to take pills I can understand but you must treat the problem
try homeopathy, naturopathy but get treated for that adn monitor your T function
I have heard that virgin coconut oil can regulate thyroid problems but make sure you are getting doctors care and monitoring those hormone levels
- How did you feel before you started taking the pills?
You'll be always tired, weak & gain weight.
- In short, you get 'retarded' - that is your body functions slow down, and you get cold often, puffy fat/edema, gain weight easily, low energy, able to sleep for hours but still feel tired, constipated, hormonal upsets, etc. Your thyroid is like your energy regulator for your whole body, so without enough thyroid you get sluggish and dull. Your speech may slow down also. (Headaches were my worst symptom.) It is good to find out why you became low in thyroid so that may suggest other ways to help you now. There is one condition (Hashimoto's) where your body fights itself or an auto-immune cause that can cause your thyroid to be overactive then underactive, and then settle somewhere anywhere in between. So it is important to see if you have such anti-bodies in your body, because that needs a little different treatment. Iodine deficiency used to be a big cause but as most salt is iodized these days it should not be that. However seaweed/kelp may be helpful to get more iodine available for your body. It can be a familial or genetic condition often associated with goitre or a large swelling in the neck in the past. In short, the thyroid is a very important gland, so in a way you are lucky, the treatment is such a 'cheap' pill, made from cattle thyroids originally. I know I never want to go back to what I was before they finally diagnosed my low thyroid, but it took several months to start to feel better. It is important you start with a lower dose than you actually need and build it up to the correct dose as it is hard to kick into full steam after being damped down for a time - and harder if for a longer time. Most meds come from natural sources originally, but are better regulated through Labs. now. If the tablet is the problem, you can crush it? If it's just the idea, to me the condition is a lot worse untreated than just the pill. You could try to get cows' thyroids but you can't regulate yourself so why re-invent the wheel, as they say? So just a little more iodine in your diet may help, or look for things in your environment that may be depressing your thyroid? Good luck.