150mcg levothyroxine

In your last thread, it was suggested that you get your vit D, vit B12, folate and ferritin tested. Did you do that? Low nutrients could be why you have difficulty raising your dose.

Ask your GP if they could please check levels of vitamin d, b12, folate and ferratin. These all need to at good (not just average) levels for thyroid hormones to work in our cells.

Stomach issues can be due to Hashimoto's - raised thyroid antibodies. Or can also be due to low stomach acid - result of being hypo. Plenty on here about to improve low acid

Have you had thyroid antibodies checked? There are two sorts TPO Ab and TG Ab. (Thyroid peroxidase and thyroglobulin) Both need checking, if either, or both are high this means autoimmune thyroid - called Hashimoto's - most common cause of being hypo. NHS rarely checks TPO and almost never checks TG.

Make sure you get the actual figures from tests (including ranges - figures in brackets). You are entitled to copies of your own results. Some surgeries make nominal charge for printing out. Alternatively you can now ask for online access to your own medical records. Though not all surgeries can do this yet, or may not have blood test results available yet online, but all should be doing this with couple of years.

If you can not get GP to do these tests, then like many of us, you can get them done privately

thyroiduk.org.uk/tuk/testin...

Blue Horizon - Thyroid plus eleven tests all these.

This is an easy to do fingerprick test you do at home, post back and they email results to you couple of days later. Usual advice on this test, is to do early in morning, no food or drink beforehand (other than water) don't take Levo in 24 hours before (take straight after).

When you get results suggest you make a new post on here and members can offer advice on any vitamin supplements needed.

Jojowilts43,

Try 125mcg and 150mcg alternate days. If you are comfortable with that you could try raising to 150mcg in 2 or 3 weeks.

If you can get a print-out of your latest blood test results with the ranges and post on a new question, members will respond.

If you're fine with 125mcg I'd stick with that. No good taking something if it makes you feel worse. Bearing in mind I'm not medically qualified just have had the ups/downs with meds like many. Doctors should be more concerned with clinical symptoms than blood test results.

It's quite unusual for the doc to want to raise your dose while the patient says she feels better on the lower dose. It makes me wonder if the doc knows that TSH varies inversely with T4 dose! Maybe you should get your TSH and tell him that if he is worried about a low or suppressed TSH he should be lowering your T4 dose not raising it. Or, on second thoughts, just say nothing and go with your symptoms, that's the only true indicator.