i'm 19 years old and before i lost my medical my doctor diagnosed me with undersctive thyroid. he put me on levothroxine and told me to come back in 3 months. well a month into the treatment i moved home from where i'd been and lost my medical. i'm unemployed and don't have a way to get to SRS to apply for government health care. i've been off the med for nearly 4 months. until i started taking the meds i only experienced fatigue and a few dizzy spells here and there. i only sought medical attention when it interefered with work. my hair started falling out a little at a time pnce i started the meds and i didn't feel any different while on the meds. now i'm off them and the only diffence is now i end up with ten or twenty strands of hair on my fingers when i run my had through my hair. i had a great immune system before the meds and now i'm sick every other week. everything is a mess! what do i do??
2006-11-17 23:52:58 · 4 answers · asked by silverbunny1410 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
You need to get medication to replace the hormone, people can not live without a thyroid, or thyroid hormone. I do not believe the medication is very expensive, try to find a free clinic to get a prescription from. Or maybe a doctor would just write you a prescription. Make sure you are eating well, taking a natural multi vitamin, and getting enough vitamin D or taking a supplement.
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2006-11-18 00:07:20 · answer #1 · answered by Mom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would try to see a nutritionist or alternative medicine doc. Sounds like the meds the other doc prescribed were worse than the problem you had. Usually hypothyroidism is treated with armour thyroid, relatively cheap drug.
2006-11-18 08:08:19 · answer #2 · answered by tmarschall 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In some counties in california they have something calle MIA medical indigent adult.
or you can get medical. Or go to an ER amd I don't thin they can refuse medical treatimesnt.
Or call you doc and explain your delima. he can write an RX for you or may he has some samples
2006-11-18 08:16:35 · answer #3 · answered by clcalifornia 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get thee to a doctor young lady, it doesn't cost that much now, he'll understand and they can make some kind of payments for you. All you need now are meds, later ? who knows how bad it could be.
2006-11-18 07:57:34 · answer #4 · answered by cowboydoc 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋