Levothyroxine is hard on the heart especially when taken too much which can lead to hyperthyroidism and exacerbate heart issues.
When taken in proper dosages the levothyroxine does not usually affect your heart but in some people it may still do so.
The toxic effect of levothyroxine is a fast and pounding or irregular heartbeat, confusion, seizures and loss of consciousness.
Levothyroxine is a medication that treats and underactive thyroid gland also known as hypothyroidism and replaces the missing thyroid hormone in the body called thyroxine.
Your doctor will likely do a blood test to check your TSH level (an indicator of how well your thyroid is working) about six weeks after you start on levothyroxine, to see if your dose is making a difference.
The vitamins that should not be taken with thyroid medication are calcium supplements and antacids.
If you need to take calcium supplements take the calcium supplements 4 hours before or after you take the thyroid medication.
The early warning signs that your thyroid is in trouble are thin, brittle hair or fingernails, sadness or depression, paleness or dry skin, muscle or joint pain, heavier and irregular menstrual periods in women, fatigue or feeling slowed down, feeling cold and hard stools or constipation.
Thyroid pain feels like neck pain that is caused by a swollen and inflamed thyroid gland and in some cases the thyroid pain can spread to the jaws or ears.
Your thyroid gland may be painful and also swollen for weeks or in rare cases for months.
The places where you itch with thyroid problems are the buttocks, face, back, chest and neck which is also where a thyroid rash can occur.
It is possible to live without your thyroid and some people have their thyroid removed and live a normal and long life.
You can live without your thyroid although without your thyroid you will need long term thyroid hormone replacement therapy that replaces the hormone that your thyroid produces normally.
When you have thyroid cancer what happens to your body is you begin to develop a lump that can be felt through the skin of your neck and then you may also have changes in your voice such as hoarseness and difficulty swallowing.
You may also develop pain in your throat and neck.
Thyroid cancer can most often be prevented and avoided by reducing your exposure to radiation such as from radiation from cell phones and medical imaging procedures.
Also eating a healthy diet and exercising can help to prevent some cancers and lower your risk of thyroid cancer.
To check yourself for thyroid cancer you look between the collar bone and the Adam's apple you want to look for any lumps or bumps when you swallow where the Adam's apple is and that's visible.
Any lumps or bumps when you swallow or any lumps or bumps that normally weren't there could mean you have thyroid cancer.
Thyroid cancer is treatable and highly curable when caught soon enough.
Most people who develop thyroid cancer are treated and go on to live long lives afterwards.
Thyroid cancer does not make you gain weight although hypothyroidism can make you gain weight.
Thyroid cancer does not cause symptoms such as thinning hair, heart palpitations like hypothyroidism can.
An ultrasound of the thyroid can detect cancer.
A CT scan is also used to look for any spread of the cancer into any distant organs such as your lungs while the ultrasound can help to determine the size and location of the thyroid cancer and see if they have spread to nearby areas.
Thyroid cancer is caused by genetics and when cells in your thyroid change in their DNA.
The cells DNA contains instructions which tell the cell what they should do.
These changes called mutations tell your cells to grow and multiply rapidly and the cells then go on to living when the healthy cells would die naturally.
Genetic syndromes that can increase the risk of someone developing thyroid cancer include familial medullary thyroid cancer, multiple endocrine neoplasia and Cowden.
The survival rate for thyroid cancer is 98 percent.
Thyroid has a 5 year survival rate in the United States of 98 percent and most cases of thyroid cancer are highly treatable and curable.
Thyroid cancer can make you feel sick when it has spread and mestasized to distant areas of your body.
When the thyroid cancer has spread it can cause fatigue, nausea and vomiting.
Thyroid cancer is a big deal although most thyroid cancer is highly treatable and curable and rarely fatal.
Papillary thyroid cancer is less serious and not as big of a deal and can be cured and is rarely fatal with treatment.
Follicular thyroid cancer is more serious and is more likely to spread to the bones and organs and your lungs.
Metastatic cancer is more challenging to treat.
Women are most likely to get thyroid cancer.
Thyroid cancer occurs in women around 3 times more often than men.
Thyroid cancer is most common in women in their 40s or 50s and thyroid cancer is most common in men in their 60s and 70s.
Although thyroid cancer can occur in both men and women at any age.
The TSH level in thyroid cancer is when it drops to 0.01 to 3.0 µIU/mL.
People with a healthy thyroid should have a TSH level of around 0.4 to 5.0 µIU/mL.
A blood test cannot indicate thyroid cancer although a blood test will check the levels of your T3, T4 and thyroid stimulating hormone.
To test for thyroid cancer a radioactive iodine scan will be done along with a special camera to detect any thyroid cancer cells in your body.
If you ignore thyroid cancer and the thyroid cancer is left untreated then the thyroid cancer will continue to spread and grow to other parts of the body including the lungs and bone and eventually the brain.
Left untreated thyroid cancer can be fatal as thyroid cancer does not go away on it's own.
Thyroid cancer is treated most commonly through surgery to remove the cancerous lobe that the thyroid cancer is found.
The Lymph nodes near the cancer may also be removed and then checked under a microscope for signs of cancer.
Other treatments for thyroid cancer are chemotherapy, radiation and radioactive iodine.
Thyroid cancer cannot and will not go away on it's own.
All cases of thyroid cancer require treatment for it to go away and without treatment thyroid cancer can be fatal.
The neck pain with thyroid cancer is located at the front of your neck and just below your Adam's apple.
The neck pain with thyroid cancer can be at the base of the throat as well as the thyroid nodules can cause neck pain.
The 4 main types of thyroid cancer are anaplastic, medullary, follicular and papillary thyroid cancer with Papillary thyroid cancer being the most common type of thyroid cancer.