Been on levythyroxine for one year or just over. TSH was 35 to start with. Levelled out in august so she left me for six months on 75 levythroxine. After 6 month test TSH is back up to 12.6 and ft4 is 12.7. She didnt know wether to up my dose so rang the lab. She now wants a repeat test. However i upped my dose because to me its clearly hypo and ive not been well. I cant repeat the test now as it will have gone up. Should i have needed extra levpthyroxine
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Hi nosy, very few people stay at 75 mcgs. of levothyroxine and have raises in dose every few weeks until stabelized. But there is much more to being hypo than taking a pill. Have you tried going gluten free? If you can watch an ongoing program on the internet, you can learn a lot about different methods for treating Hashimoto's. thethyroidsecret.com/episod...
Did you do without your meds before the blood test? You know that you should not take thyroxine within 24 hours of a blood draw? Take it directly after as the blood tests only measure whats in your blood , not whether it is working.
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