Feeling hyper and a bit naffed off.

[puncturedbicycle]

Here are the results from my last tft, 12th Sept. An earlier test showed my tsh to be around 5 (levo 50, t3 10) so six weeks before the test my levo was raised to 100 (and I take 10 t3). I'm currently supplementing iron, b12 and folate and maintaining d (which was 73.3, tested separately on the same day). I had stopped all supplements before testing as as usual when I stop this is what my results look like.

For the last few days I've been feeling a bit hyper (rapid heartbeat, slightly raised temp, minor overactive gut). My experience suggests I have to be pretty substantially overreplaced for these symptoms to kick in, esp temp which is otherwise always low. I experimentally reduced my levo to 50 on Wed morning and I suddenly remembered that this is how I ended up going hypo on 50mcg levo, because the same thing happened last time my dose was raised: I eventually feel hyper, reduce my dose a bit and then eventually go hypo.

For the last two or three years I've felt mediocre health/energy-wise and I wonder if it's because of this perpetual hormonal roller coaster.

The only variable I can identify (besides my high antibodies and historical tendency of my thyroid to cycle up and down) is that during the time I went hypo I was taking ldn in capsules as I hadn't got on all that well w the linctus, and imo the capsules weren't working at all. As soon as I tried the new sublingual drops they kicked in like billy-o (they have a distinctive se). So maybe this is the ldn actually working again and reducing my need for meds?

Anyway, my question - if I actually have one and am not just moaning - is how should I reduce my levo? I prefer not to fiddle w tiny quarters of tiny tablets so I'd be inclined to reduce some days to 50, but is every other day going to be about right (50/100) or will that send me too far in the other direction? I planned to do another test end of Oct but now I guess I'll put that off until I'm on the adjusted dose for six weeks.

Thanks for any suggestions.

[Clutter]

PB,

Raising to 100mcg was excessive and probably did make you hyper. 50/100mcg alternate days is an acceptable way to achieve 75mcg daily. I hope the dose adjustment helps.

[puncturedbicycle in reply to Clutter]

Thanks Clutter. I did 50 a couple of days in a row and it seems to be receding a bit. I'll alternate from now on.

I got my details slightly wrong in that I had raised to 75 before my last test, so I had been on 50, then alternated 50/100 for six weeks before the blood draw so at the time I was on 75.

i really should keep a diary. My memory is shocking. (No joke, I have started a health diary a hundred times and I actually forget to write in it.)