hey guys,

I've been on thyroid medication for a few years now for being hypo. I had my bloodwork done a few days ago and the doc called me and said the numbers were thru the roof and to immediately stop taking my meds. He wants me to come in after about 4 weeks for another blood test, but he said he thinks I'm going to be able to stop the medication since I have lost so much weight!!

Oh wow that's great, congratulations!

Congratulations....I hope the same happens to me.!

:thumbup:CONGRATULATIONS!!!

I am so jealous. I hope the same happens to me someday!

Okay.... The timing on this subject couldn't be better. I went for a fill yesterday and immediately afterward went to my family physician for my "other stuff". He had gotten back some lab work, and my thyroid levels were also high and he wanted to cut back on my dose. I was MORTIFIED!!! I actually started to panic. I thought, "Crap, it took me years to finally get my metabolism to work and work with me, and now he wants to lower my metabolism?" I was shocked and felt like this would sabotage my weight loss efforts and slow down my metabolism, when I worked so hard to get it going. I see this as a step backwards. If I slow down my metabolism, I will also slow down my weight loss. I spent thousands to go forward and now I'm supposed to readily turn around and head backwards?????? I need some medical advice with this. Any doctors out there? I'm frantic about this.

aubrie,,

I completely understand your point as I have been there..and experienced the lethargic feeling and paying $$ finally in and out of appts and getting my metabolism to work properly. But if your thyroid levels out of control and too high there are other worst factors that can arise.

Being off from any synthetic/chemically induced medication is a great accomplishment! Just relax....your doctor should still be monitoring your levels incase you need to increase it again...but your body should be producing more levels than it was before and this shall keep your energy equal to what you have now.

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I am not a doctor or anything. But I have had a thyroid condition for 5 years now. And have plenty of close family members that do so as well. I have two cousin's who did gastric bypass. One is off her thyroid medication the other one he is still on it. I just pray I am as lucky and able to get off of it.

I hope and pray that I will be able to get off my thyroid medicine someday, but kind of doubt it because there is damage to my thyroid and I've been on Synthroid for 20 years now. Anyone out there hear of any bandsters like me being able to get off it after losing a significant amount of weight? I've lost 45# and still want to lose at least another 40-45.