My husband continues to have all the classic hypo symptoms despite being on 125mcg Levo.
He has had no response whatsoever to the medication, but his T4 is now 26.2, T3 5.3 and TSH 0.01. If he was overmedicated wouldn't he experience hyper symptoms?
Predictably, his GP has lowered his dose, but this leaves him going nowhere.
Seems not hyper as the T3 is within its range, plus of course no hyper symptoms, so GP wrong to reduce his dose, was probably only taking the TSH into account. Endo referral might be needed here as looks like GP is floundering and taking no intelligent action about the high T4, such as Clarebear advocates.
I also am on T3/T4 combo, synthetic, after being awash in T4 but feeling very ill with hypo symptoms Beyond my GP, who said as much, referred to endo who balanced things out with additional T3. Hope this works for your husband.
The range in my lab for fT3 is 3.1 - 6.8, so if it's the same, then I would also think he needs some T3. I had similar results on thyroxine to your husband, but as NBD above mentions, had actually started to feel worse, due I think to high reverse T3. I am so much better now on a combo of T3 and T4 (in my case Armour).
Please could you post the reference ranges for fT3 and fT4? Thanks. xx
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