What are the side effects of too much thyroid medication?
Symptoms of severe overtreatment include:
- Anxiety.
- Mood swings.
- Hand tremors.
- Diarrhea.
- Muscle weakness, mainly in the thighs and shoulders.
- Weight loss.
- Inability to sleep and/or focus.
- Abnormally increased heart rate, even at rest.
What happens if you are over prescribed thyroid medication?
Symptoms of overmedication can include anxiety, diarrhea, depression, elevated heartbeat, elevated blood pressure, fatigue, irritability, difficulty concentrating, difficulty sleeping, being overheated, and unprompted or unintentional weight loss.
Can too much thyroid medication make you gain weight?
Over-treatment may cause irregular heart beats and bone loss in elderly and under-treatment may cause symptoms like weight gain, fatigue as well as other serious health issues like higher cholesterol level, and in severe cases heart problems and even death.
Can too much thyroxine cause weight gain?
Once your thyroid levels are normal again, this medication should have no effect on your weight.
What happens if you take too much thyroid medication?
Irritability. One of the first symptoms people experience when their thyroid is off is a general sense of irritability.
Are You taking too much thyroid medication?
This can happen from either taking too much thyroid hormone replacement medication or from abusing thyroid hormone medication, which could lead to suppressed TSH. Most commonly, providers use TSH levels to guide therapy to ensure that a person is producing the right levels of thyroid hormone.
Which thyroid medication is best?
First –> The medication must be consumed.
How can thyroid medications harm your thyroid?
– Increased sweating – Mood swings/Irritability – Nervousness – Fatigue – Headache – Hot flashes/Sensitivity to heat – Tremors – Palpitations