Hi all, wanted some advice- I have Hashimotos and on a 125 mg of Levo, just reduced from 150 as my tsh had dropped to 0.1 and T4 was high.
For the last 3 weeks I’ve had a sore throat, worse in the evenings and on one side. It hurts to wallow and feels dry and scratchy.
I’m wondering if this is a connected symptom and common to hashis or unrelated. It’s showing no sign of reducing and it’s staring to worry me.
A sore throat can be a hypo symptom.
Your TSH may have been low and your FT4 high, but if your doctor didn't test your FT3, then he has no idea if you were over-medicated or not. Could be that you weren't converting the T4 very well, and reducing the levo would also reduce your FT3, and has probably made you more hypo.
Never accept a dose reduction without an FT3 test being done. 
Hi thanks GG, my T3 was tested too and was also on the high side. I had to push a bit for the reduction.
OK Perhaps the reduction was just too much, then.
Possibly you may be right but I’ve oy just reduced it about a week ago And the throat has been sore for about a month. It’s really annoying me. It could unrelated of course but I can’t help but worry about it. I think I’ll go and see the GP.
I had a sore throat constantly for years and years and then started talking selenium and it was fine within a couple of days 🙂 I also found stress made it worse x
Thanks abagail. I eat Brasil nuts daily so think my selinium should be ok but I may take a supplement as you suggest. I have been stressed and run down so both could be factors
Be careful. It is quite possible to overdose on selenium. Excess selenium is very much not desirable.
You could very easily be getting as much as you need from your diet including Brazil nuts.
Our requirement could be up to 80 micrograms a day. 800 micrograms a day is into the region of potentially dangerous overdose.
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