Anyone taken thyroxine?

[nothing2lose]

My FS has just put me on thyroxine (50mg) because my tsh is 5.

My question to anyone who has taken it, how long before your tsh level lowered??


Thanks!

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

Not taken it, but used to work for a consultant who prescribed it.

We used to order blood tests after 2 weeks and 6 weeks from starting the medication and see a difference, so I'm guessing it should start to fall almost immediately.

[nothing2lose]

Thanks TFB

[wysiwyg]

I am on it permanently, (100mg 6 days, 150mg 1 day) started when pregnant with DD and am pretty sure it came down very quickly, blood tests were quite frequent 2 weeks sounds about right. Now I still have checked every 4 months or so - I can normally tell if am taking too much or too little now but took about a year to get to that point. ( I have Hashimotos so thyroid antibodies )

[nothing2lose]

Thanks Wysiwyg.

I'm wanting it to work quickly because it should be at a level of one for fertility and I've just started and ivf cycle! Egg pick up will be in about three and a half weeks. Transfer five days later....

Hopefully it will hit the system running!!

[wysiwyg]

Thinking about it more it must work pretty quick because when my level was 13 and I was pregnant my GP got me into see endocrinologist that day so could get started as is very important right level in first tri - if it didn't work quick would not have been the urgency.

[onthefly]

It'll take a week or two, probably, and level out around 6 weeks.