By the time I started my journey through Levothyroxine, I was already on years of mental health prescription medication and withdrawal from them.

It was soon after withdrawing from my last drug, I began experiencing shooting pains throughout my body. I had difficulty slowing down and sleeping as well as having extreme irritability and excessive hunger.

At one point my neck became so swollen, I was unable to swallow food.

Through a blood test from my primary care doctor, I discovered I had hyperthyroidism.

I have found that most people and doctors believe that thyroid disease is easy to treat. Unfortunately, from my experience, regulating my thyroid levels has been a difficult challenge.

First, I had difficulty in finding an endocrinologist who would treat my hyperthyroidism due to my past prescription drug history.

Second, when I finally had my thyroid ablated, the doctor was unwilling to except that I couldn’t take Synthroid® in a higher dosage without reactions.

At the time, I wasn’t fully aware of my sensitivities to preservatives and other ingredients in medications. And unfortunately, no endocrinologist nor doctor was open to listening to these sensitivities.