Feeling more supported

Well done. Maybe print out the following and tick the symptoms you have and cross them off as you improve and symptoms resolve. Maybe that will also help GP to learn that we need optimum dose to relieve symptoms.

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They should not have reduced your dose from 150mcg to 125mcg

Official NHS guidelines saying TSH should be between 0.2 and 2.0 maximum when on Levothyroxine

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Thyroxine replacement in primary hypothyroidism

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Dr Toft, past president of the British Thyroid Association and leading endocrinologist, states in Pulse Magazine,

"The appropriate dose of levothyroxine is that which restores euthyroidism and serum TSH to the lower part of the reference range - 0.2-0.5mU/l.

In this case, free thyroxine is likely to be in the upper part of its reference range or even slightly elevated – 18-22pmol/l.

Most patients will feel well in that circumstance. But some need a higher dose of levothyroxine to suppress serum TSH and then the serum-free T4 concentration will be elevated at around 24-28pmol/l.

This 'exogenous subclinical hyperthyroidism' is not dangerous as long as serum T3 is unequivocally normal – that is, serum total around T3 1.7nmol/l (reference range 1.0-2.2nmol/l)."

You can obtain a copy of the articles from Thyroid UK email print it and highlight question 6 to show your doctor

 please email Dionne at

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Professor Toft recent article saying, T3 may be necessary for many Otherwise we need high FT4 and suppressed TSH in order to get high enough FT3

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