side effects of supplements

March 11, 2012

Hi

I'm fairly new at all this but have been finding this forum really helpful and

informative. I'm hoping someone may be able to reassure about a few things.

I'm 37 and was diagnosed as hypothyroid about 15 years ago. I'm currently on

125mg Levothyroxine and my recent blood tests are OK.

THYROID STIMULATING HORMONE 1.91 mIU/L 0.27 -4.2

FREE THYROXINE 18.5 pmol/l 12.0 -22.0

FREE T3 4.4 pmol/L 3.1 -6.8

However my ferritin level was *5 ug/L 13 -150 so I did some investigation and

have started taking feroglobin (I can't tolerate anything stronger

unfortunately), B12 and D3. Apart from tiredness, being cold, etc I have felt

reasonably OK over the past few years and have been leading a busy life. Since

starting these extra vitamins I've been having tingling/pins and needles in my

legs and have been feeling a bit weak and wobbly. This is really scary for me as

I had Guillame Barre syndrome about 8 years ago so I am very familiar with all

these feelings. I don't think it's GBS as it's been coming and going rather than

getting consistently worse, but it is extremely frightening. Is it possible that

these weird feelings are a side effect of the extra vitamins?

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