I’ve been diagnosed with under active thyroid for nearly 3 years, started on 75mg levo eventually 125mg ( when symptoms really bad I increased to 150mg, 1st endo was no support kept insisting Symptoms are menopausal, now have different endo he appears total opposite and has put me on Liothyrine 10mg daily as well as Levo as said to reduce Levo to 100mg my bloods came back over this time, I don’t understand as my symptoms are just as worse hands & feet ice cold, hair loss, weight gain, Unbearable moods, constipation, joints hurt so much I feel at the end of my tether, last bloods were;
all thyroid blood tests should be done early morning, ideally before 9am last dose levothyroxine 24 hours before test
On T3 - day before test split daily dose T3 into 3 smaller doses, spread through the day at approx 8 hour intervals, taking last 1/3rd of daily dose 8-12 hours before test
Is this how you did your test?
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It could be that you need less levo and more lio. It can take years of slowly adjusting doses to find a combo that suits The endos can't judge this. It is trial and error.
Thanks for that, I don't mean to sound meannor impatient but it's always lots of waiting where thyroid is concerned, I wish I could just feel as if I'm functioning properly, this is a living nightmare.
How did you do? its 2yrs ago but to me you were over medicated and likely your body was responding by blocking - poss with rt3 to stop further damage. hence the hypo symptoms.
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