I am assuming your T3 was withdrawn? In that case your dose of levo is too low as your TSH is too high with both Frees too low.
Phone and ask your GP to leave a prescription for you to collect tomorrow. 25mcg of levo is an incremental dose until the patient is symptom-free and feels well. Both FT4 and FT3 should be nearer the top not the bottom. I don't know what dose of T3 you were taking and assume it has been removed but GP should have added levothyroxine for the equivalent of T3 which was withdrawn.
I am astonished that your Endo reduced your 175mcg of levo down to 25mcg levo. He definitely needs to lose his licence.
You will get better if you do not rely on the endocrinologist and I would report him.
You have hypo symptoms due to too low a dose. Tick off the symptoms - copy and send him a copy and state that you've contacted a help line for dysfunctions of the thyroid gland and have been told that your dose is far too low as you are now extremely symptomatic. If we are going to have adjustments in levo, it has to be by 25mcg only up/down not a reduction by 180 (i.e. 150mcg of T4 and 10mcg of T3). At one stroke he has reduced your dose by approx 180mcg daily.
If my calculations are wrong someone will respond. Contact your GP and i hope he can sort something out. When we consult a Specialist - we expect them to be specialists but find out that many members on this forum know far more than those getting paid.
You are undermedicated to have TSH 5.60 and that's why you are symptomatic. Ask your GP to increase dose.
The goal of Levothyroxine is to restore the patient to euthyroid status. For most patients that will be when TSH is 0.3 - 1.0 with FT4 in the upper range. FT4 needs to be in the upper range in order that sufficient T3 is converted. Read Treatment Options in thyroiduk.org.uk/tuk/about_... Email dionne.fulcher@thyroiduk.org if you would like a copy of the Pulse article to show your GP.
Who was it that reduced dose from 175mcg Levothyroxine + 10mcg T3 to 25mcg Levothyroxine and what reason did they give for doing so?
You weren't thyrotoxic at all! All the results were within range on 175mcg + 10mcg, your endo is a maniac! You need to see your GP for a dose increase. I would fire the endo, s/he's no help at all. If you feel like it write to the head of endocrinology or the hospitals PALS and complain that endo reduced dose unnecessarily and aggressively and you are now undermedicated and unwell.
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