Jen Wittman – While there is no “magic pill” for thyroid disease, some factors may influence the effectiveness of your thyroid medication.

When you are first diagnosed with a thyroid condition, a prescription for medication becomes much like a prescription for hope.

There is hope that you and your body will once again work together as partners, that you can feel “normal” again…at least someday soon. There is a butterflies-in-the-belly kind of optimism that all will be well again and that the emotional lows will become poignant highs.

And then it happens: You grow frustrated as you and your doctor struggle to find the right dosage and the right type of thyroid medication. You slowly realize that your thyroid medication doesn’t do all you thought it would.  It may not have taken your symptoms away and possibly added some extra ones to the mix. Continue reading →