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What Causes Persistent Pain In Right Arm While On Levothyroxine?

I have been taking Leverthyroxin for about 3 months for an under time thyroid. Around the same time as I started the tablets I began to get a constant pain the full length of my right arm (like a bone pain that starts in the elbow & spreads above & below) could this be a side effect ? It s only in the one arm ..
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I really appreciate your concern, pain symptoms of arm and others are not due to thyroid medicine or it self due to thyroid disease but it could be due to something else and most of the time it could be musculoskeletal pain of unknown origin hope this information helps.
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What Causes Persistent Pain In Right Arm While On Levothyroxine?

HI Well come to HCM I really appreciate your concern, pain symptoms of arm and others are not due to thyroid medicine or it self due to thyroid disease but it could be due to something else and most of the time it could be musculoskeletal pain of unknown origin hope this information helps.