If I miss taking my thyroid pills for a week, what symptoms would I experience?
I have hypothyroidism and I am taking Synthroid. I missed taking them for about a week, but now I started taking them again, continuously every day in the morning! I was also taking my birth control pills prescribed by my doctor! I started taking them again about a month ago, then stopped cause I figured, everything is kool!! I am one week late with my period and I took a pregnancy test and it was positive! Are these pregnancy tests accurate?? I did some bloodwork, EKG, Urine, and had an X-ray done about 3 weeks ago, but my doctor didn’t mention that I was pregnant! I haven’t been sleeping, I have put on a little weight….not much! I did the pregnancy test today, but I have been stressed out lately, with college and homework and haven’t been sleeping too good!! When I recieved the results of the tests, my potassium level was slightly high and the doctor did another blood test last week!! I am now waiting the results of this test! I have an MRI to do on Wednesday!! Can you please help?
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I think you are asking can stopping your medication cause your period to be late and cause a false positive on a pregnancy test.
When you stop taking your medication it can result in an abnormal menstrual cycle. Never heard of it causing a false positive, A pregnancy test which measures hCG, but it still could be a false positive.
Usually the symptoms that you would experience would be the symptoms that you were experiencing prior to your taking the medication, and the reasons why you sought medical attention and were diagnosed needing the medication, in the first place. Whew! That was a mouth full!
things likely went somewhat wacky when you were off thyroid med. but you seem to be more concerned that you may be pregnant=the weight gain will be from the week off the thyroid pill=you are stressed out so thats why your period might be late but you mention that you’re getting an MRI=wait until Dr tells you about that and mention about period being late=best of luck to you