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Thyroid Medication & Antidepressant & Anxiety Medication & Sleeping Pills

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I don't take thyroid meds, but I do take Xanax for anxiety, Ambien to sleep and Lexapro for my antidepressant.

I've always had trouble sleeping and after about four months of being with my new gluten-free/DF life I was getting depressed and extremely anxious about foods - to the point where I wasn't eating or sleeping among other things.

I had minimal side effects starting the Lexapro. (My dr. originally put me on Paxil and I had some horrible side effects, so we switched immediately.) And I feel SO much better, it was the right choice for me.

I'm starting to taper off the other meds too, it'll be a long process but worth it!!

I can't answer if any of these have corn, dairy or soy. They are gluten-free. I don't seem to have any trouble from them. I hope you find your answer this week!

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I take Prozac, Wellbutrin and Levothyroxine for my thyroid.

I don't take anything to help me sleep (even though I am up through the night mostly from around 2 or 3 a.m. till around 5 or 6 a.m.). The reason I don't take anything though is because that it the time my bowels are most active due to the collagenous colitis (which is often nocturnal). Therefore, actually I am glad my body wakes me up or else it wouldn't be too pretty in the morning!! :blink::o

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I also take thyroid med. I was on Levoxyl 88 mcg for a couple of years, and never felt right. I found out that my main problem wasn't that my body wasn't making adequate T4, it was that it wasn't converting it properly to T3 when needed. After bugging (and I do mean BUGGING) my doctor for a bit, I finally got a prescription for T3 only. That works a lot better for me. The TSH stays within norms, and I DON'T get the occassional hyper symptoms that I sometimes got when the T4 was too high. But that is only what worked for me since I was still making T4, just not converting it. You can ask your doctor to check your T3 levels as well, and see if it might be your problem. There are also a couple of other things in complete thyroid hormone that haven't been completely identified yet (or at least, they've been identified, but we're not completely sure what their purpose is). Some people do better on complete thyroid, such as Armour, than on the T4 only ones such as Levoxyl, because they might need one of the other parts of the hormone. But again, it depends on the person.

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The only one of all of these I take is medication for my thryoid. I am on Sythroid. We adjust my dosage every so often. Right now I am on .075mg (I think that's it anyway).

I took Ambien once because I wanted to potentially take it the night before my wedding, so I took it to experiment. While I slept great and woke up feeling rested everyone said it made me look gray and sickly. So I never took it again.

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I don't take thyroid meds, but I do take Xanax for anxiety, Ambien to sleep and Lexapro for my antidepressant.

I've always had trouble sleeping and after about four months of being with my new gluten-free/DF life I was getting depressed and extremely anxious about foods - to the point where I wasn't eating or sleeping among other things.

I had minimal side effects starting the Lexapro. (My dr. originally put me on Paxil and I had some horrible side effects, so we switched immediately.) And I feel SO much better, it was the right choice for me.

I'm starting to taper off the other meds too, it'll be a long process but worth it!!

I can't answer if any of these have corn, dairy or soy. They are gluten-free. I don't seem to have any trouble from them. I hope you find your answer this week!

You say that you are on a GFDF diet right? So I am assuming that the Xanax doesnt have any gluten or dairy in it? I am going to be starting a GFDF diet soon and I take Ativan which is gluten-free but has lactose in it... Want to find a brand that doesnt have the lactose!

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You say that you are on a GFDF diet right? So I am assuming that the Xanax doesnt have any gluten or dairy in it? I am going to be starting a GFDF diet soon and I take Ativan which is gluten-free but has lactose in it... Want to find a brand that doesnt have the lactose!

I just looked it up on line and here are the inactive ingredients:

Cellulose, corn starch, docusate sodium, lactose, magnesium stearate, silicon dioxide, and sodium benzoate. In addition, the 0.5 mg tablet contains FD&C yellow no. 6 and the 1 mg tablet contains FD&C blue no.

So, NO it's not completely dairy free, but it doesn't seem to bother me.

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I started on synthroid years ago, and then my PCP switched me to levothroid becasue she said the hormone levels in synthroid were inconsistent. Since she retired, I am now with an endocrinologist, who recently switched me back to synthroid after it seemed that every time I refilled my prescription, my levels would fluctuate. I've been pretty stable on synthroid for about a year now.

As long as I get fresh air and some exercise, I don't have trouble sleeping. I'm usually so tired, nothing keeps me awake, not even DH's snoring--and he's so loud, I'm surprised you guys haven't heard him yet! :lol:

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i take all of them!! i take wellbutrine, cymbalta, levothyroxine, lunesta, norco (pain killer). i also take soma and klonopin as needed. i have fibromyalgia and have battled depression for years. the anti-depressants aren't really helping me, i'd like to get off them and try something different. every time i try to go off the anti-depressants, though, i get vertigo. i have been gluten free with my kids for a month now in hopes of helping my fibro---but no such luck.

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My psychologist believes I have dysthymia, but I haven't been diagnosed with depression. (Probably would be if I investigated it at all.) I take St. John's Wort twice a day for that. (400mg, I believe.) If I ever have a big problem sleeping, I try to make sure to get exercise, and if that doesn't work, I have tried Valerian prior to bed, and that has helped.

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Thank you thank you...

I wonder if anyone is taking KLONOPIN? Someone today said they had a family member taking it. A preson that wasn't a Celiac.

I do! I really like Klonopin. Maybe the generic would be OK for you?

Also take Zoloft (200 mg) for depression and OCD and Trazodone (50 or 75 mg) for sleep. I tried Ambien and HATED it (didn't help me sleep and gave me crazy dreams!) and now that all the bad stories are coming out about it, I'm glad I switched to my Traz! Some people complain of "Trazodone hangovers," but I find that I wake up just fine.

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I only take Imovane. It's a sleeping pill, and I never take it at night. I only take it during the day when I am trying to sleep after the night shift. I had such fractured sleep for so many years, running my kids to preschool etc, and getting only maybe 4-5 hours a "day" of sleep, my body is totally screwed now. Doesn't help that my bedroom faces south so the sun comes through my cheap blinds and hits me right in the eyes, or that my neighbours stupid dog feels the need to bark half the day. Anyhow, I just got a refill of like 30 pills, it'll last me the whole year. The pharmacist told me she checked them and they are gluten-free.

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I have Flovent and Ventolin inhalers, Synthroid for my thyroid and I am now starting Wellbutrin to see if I can grow an extra head.

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I am so glad that you found a doctor that REALLY listened and spent time with you. That is more then half of the battle. Good Luck with the Zoloft,

Rusla, can you post a picture after you grow the second head :rolleyes:

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I started on Paxil, but had such bad side effects (very sick to my stomach, jumping out of my skin, headaches...) that they switched me to Lexapro. I love the Lexapro, very mild side effects for just a day or two. Now of course everyone is different, you may not react at all to the Paxil side effects.

I'm glad to hear that just by simply taking your meds with foods it's helped a lot!!

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I take Zoloft - what do you want to know about it?

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Lauren M -- Thank you.

I was wondering if you have had any side effects that are bothersome. Like sleeplessness, more weightloss, headaches or etc? And if you take it with thyroid medication like me. How soon did it take for you to notice you were feeling better?

I have no side effects w/Zoloft and am on quite a high dosage (200 mg). I've had sleeping problems long before I ever took Zoloft, so I also take Trazodone. I am not on thryoid meds, I'm not sure how/if they would affect Zoloft.

For me - Prozac seemed to help best with depression. When I was on it, I couldn't be in a bad mood if I TRIED. I switched to Zoloft though b/c I also have OCD tendencies and anxiety. Again, the high dosage helps with the OCD and I do feel more "upbeat" in general, but I still had anxiety. That's when the Klonopin came in and peace was restored :)

OK I just made myself sound like a total wack job on all these meds... but hopefully it will help you with your decisions? :rolleyes: Really, I was just born anxious, and I assumed that it was simply my personality and I had to live with it, but I was just always stressed and worried and didn't want to live like that anymore.

Oh, and when you're talking about dyes and not guaranteeting the gluten-free status of a drug, are you talking about Zoloft? I was told it's gluten-free.

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