What Happens If Your Thyroid Is Overtreated?
Yet Even When You're on the Right Dose for Your Weight, You May Be Getting More Thyroid Hormone Than Your Body Needs. Overtreatment Places You at Risk of...
Yet even when you're on the right dose for your weight, you may be getting more thyroid hormone than your body needs. Overtreatment places you at risk of developing heart arrhythmias and osteoporosis, a low bone-mass disorder that leads to easy fracturing.
What are the symptoms of Overmedicated thyroid?
- Elevated pulse and blood pressure.
- Anxiety, nervous energy, tremors.
- Feeling irritable, overemotional, erratic, or depressed.
- Difficulty concentrating.
- Difficulty sleeping.
- Fatigue.
- Feeling overheated, even when others are cold.
- Diarrhea.
What happens if thyroid medication is too low?
General joint and muscle pains are common when hypothyroidism is not sufficiently treated, and your dosage of thyroid hormone needs to be increased. Joint and muscle weakness and pain, especially in the arms and legs, can be evidence that you need an increased dose of antithyroid drugs for your hyperthyroidism.
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