Re:Can symptoms get any stranger?

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Belly swelling, I have had this I look pregnant really, and everyone keeps

asking me if I am as its not a small sweeling I didnt know why this was and the

doctor could not answer either, is this because of the Levothyroxine Im taking

Im on 100mcg?

Thanks

Michele

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Just out of interest, I experience exactly the same thing on 125mcg.

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> Belly swelling, I have had this I look pregnant really, and everyone

keeps asking me if I am as its not a small sweeling.... is this

because of the Levothyroxine Im taking Im on 100mcg?

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Me too. I didn't have it before thyroxine but had gained a lot of weight in the 8 years before being diagnosed. I don't feel bloated or uncomfortable on such occasions - I just look huge. Some days when I look at myself sideways in the mirror I look pregnant which I hope isn't the case as I'm 52 and my 2 grown up children would be horrified (so would my longsuffering hubby for that matter)!!!

I wonder if it is not perhaps the thyroxine but something in one of the 'fillers' they put with it?

Re:Can symptoms get any stranger?

Just out of interest, I experience exactly the same thing on 125mcg. P>> Belly swelling, I have had this I look pregnant really, and everyone keeps asking me if I am as its not a small sweeling.... is this because of the Levothyroxine Im taking Im on 100mcg?

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I also have suddenly developed 'belly swelling' and feel (and look) uncomfortable. I DO look pregnant, which would be a miracle at my age. I have been told to drink copious amounts of water, which I have started today. I believe there was a discussion recently on the NTH forum about this, but never read the messages. Did anybody else, and what did they recommend, or what reason did they give for this to be happening?

Luv - Sheila

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Hi Shiela

My tum is swollen too, what is the NTH forum?

lotsa luv

Dawnx

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> I also have suddenly developed 'belly swelling' and feel (and look)

uncomfortable. I DO look pregnant, which would be a miracle at my age.

I have been told to drink copious amounts of water, which I have

started today. I believe there was a discussion recently on the NTH

forum about this, but never read the messages. Did anybody else, and

what did they recommend, or what reason did they give for this to be

happening?

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> Luv - Sheila

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Hi - I had 'wind' too on levothyroxine and this is one of the things that I have noticed has stopped since starting Armour 3 weeks ago. I dont think its your hear, I think its the synthetic T4 in levothyroxine! But I know a few people who do well on it so it may settle down.

Key is - dont worry! - Im sure its not your heart! When you have the right dose you will know if levothyroxine is for you or if you want to think about Armour - well, that was my dilemma and Ive chosen to try Armour and I think its the right decision for me already!

Gill

I too have the bloated and uncomfortable feeling, have a lot of wind and bad indigestion nearly all the time, infact it scares me as i think its my heart, I have been on an increased dose of L-thyroxine for 5 weeks now. 125mcg.

I just hope it settles down, I think some of it is anxiety.

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 I also have suddenly developed 'belly swelling' and feel (and look) uncomfortable. I DO look pregnant, which would be a miracle at my age. I have been told to drink copious amounts of water, which I have started today. I believe there was a discussion recently on the NTH forum about this, but never read the messages. Did anybody else, and what did they recommend, or what reason did they give for this to be happening?

Luv - Sheila

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Add me to the pregnant belly list! I've had to dig out some of my old

pregnancy clothes as my normal ones won't go across my belly some

days. I sometimes have to pull my skirt zip right down for comfort

when the skirt fitted perfectly well and even had room left when I put

it on. This indicates that in a couple of hours I must be expanding by

2 or 3 inches at least around the waist. (

The strange thing is, my belly size and shape changes quite randomly.

It doesn't appear to be a food allergy as it even happened when I was

ill one week and didn't eat anything.

I'm currently on 100 mcg thyroxine and, so far, it has made absolutely

no difference to the swelling and sudden weight gain episodes which

strike out of the blue.

I'm getting heartily fed up with people musing about my

forthcoming " happy event " Arghhhh!

Tracey

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I totally agree and understand, I work with 20 Egineers all guys, you can juts

imagine, but it's not even that really I just hate it Im quite small anyway and

apart from the 3 stone I put on since July I feel awful and cant fit into

anything, its horrible its not wind or indejestion Im sure..........

It just swells up and stays there and has not gone done in months?

Michele

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Hi Sheila,

I also have a fat

belly, but mine is purely fat, a real budda belly. Have you tries acdophilus to

rebalance your gut flora?

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Re:Can symptoms get any stranger?

I also have suddenly developed

'belly swelling' and feel (and look) uncomfortable. I DO look pregnant, which

would be a miracle at my age. I have been told to drink copious amounts of

water, which I have started today. I believe there was a discussion recently on

the NTH forum about this, but never read the messages. Did anybody else, and

what did they recommend, or what reason did they give for this to be happening?

Luv - Sheila

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I think mine is fluid - as it is not always there, I know hypothyroids put loads of weight on around the tummy, bum, tops of thighs, but my tummy looks quite odd at the moment. The nearest is a 'pregnant' look - about 7 months.

I will get some acidophilus, though not quite sure what that will do. I am on a drinking water binge right now as I have been told this is the answer.

Luv - Sheila

Hi Sheila,

I also have a fat belly, but mine is purely fat, a real budda belly. Have you tries acdophilus to rebalance your gut flora?

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Gluten intolerance was the first culprit but has been ruled out by

giving up all gluten-containing things for 3 months (made no

difference)and also by having 2 separate bloodtests more recently.

It doesn't actually seem to be linked with food intake as I've been

swelling up all over. The already-fat belly just seems to swell up

more than the rest of me, sometimes in the course of a couple of

hours. The joke with my friends is that I suffer from tides ;o) !!

Tracey

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> Hi Tracey,

> Gluten intolerance? But then a fast wouldn't do this hmmm

try

> acidophilus to give your 'good bugs' a boost

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