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Hi, my dose of levo has been increased recently and it seems that my anxiety levels have gone through the roof...is this something that others have experienced? I’ve gone from 25 to 50 to 75 in just one week (as directed by my gp - see previous posts).

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In your previous thread it was suggested that if you had any adverse reaction then you could drop your dose and build it back up gradually and you said you'd "give it a whirl". Did you do this or have you stayed on 75mcg?

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markwsteele in reply toSeasideSusie

I’ve not dropped down to 50...the anxiety has been with me for about 6 months now...I’m just wondering if now that my hormones are being replaced by something synthetic if that’s just magnified something that was already there...or is this a known side effect.

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