I was hoping to once again ask the advice of the boards!
I started on 25 mg of levo on June 25th, so 20 days ago. I know it's very early days but I noticed a real improvement in my symptoms over the last 10 days.
Yesterday I absolutely crashed out, I was asleep on the sofa by 5pm, husband woke me to see if I wanted dinner (I didn't!), we put the children to bed and went to bed properly around 8:30.
I'm so tearful about it today because having felt better over the last week or so I've realised how debilitating the lethargy had become.
I'm aware that 25mg is too low a starting dose, NHS say 50mg, but what do I do from here? Just suffer it for the next 5/6 weeks until my next blood test? That feels an awfully long wait though.
Recovery can go up and down but hopefully upwards, a bit like a stock market graph.
I would ask your doctor if you can switch to 50 mcg now so that you can be assessed on this dose in 5/6 weeks time. Let them know you were better but are finding the symptoms returning.
1.3.6 Consider starting levothyroxine at a dosage of 1.6 micrograms per kilogram of body weight per day (rounded to the nearest 25 micrograms) for adults under 65 with primary hypothyroidism and no history of cardiovascular disease.
So if she is reluctant to increase you could quote this new guidance if it is applicable.
Don't be too disappointed, this is what happens. You start levo - or get an increase - and you feel well for a while, but the body quickly realises that what you're taking isn't enough, so the symptoms start creeping back in again. It just means you need an increase in dose, that's all.
Thank you. I guess I was just disappointed because I hadn't realised how unwell I'd been feeling until I started levo and I hadn't realised how well I had started to feel until I felt unwell again.
And what a relief it was to finally start feeling well again! (Especially after years of being told I was just lazy and anxious.🤦🏻♀️)
I'm at exact stage as yourself with this, just today had my dose increased from 25mg to 50. I've had it with my Dr I'm now putting 100 % into the Root cause Protocol, they regulate minerals, copper, iron etc to where they belong, people are healing from all sorts of conditions, read about the founder Morley Robbins on his You tube talks also on Fb rcp123.org
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