My doctor has recommended that I increase the dose to 75 mcg T4 daily and 20 mcg of T3 daily.
It took several weeks for my system to settle down after the last changes to medication. I then had several weeks of feeling okay but in the past 2 weeks my flare up symptoms are coming back.
I would appreciate your thoughts on my situation.
Many thanks.
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Please don't increase both at the same time, you need to know what each increase is achieving so need to do them separately, wait 6-8 weeks then retest to see what difference it has made.
With those results I would increase the Levo now, this will have the effect of raising your FT4 and it should also raise your FT3 to a certain extent depending on how much natural conversion you have.
Actually, rather than go from 50/75 (62.5mcg daily) to 75mcg daily, I'd be inclined to raise to 75/100mcg (87.5mcg daily), your FT4 is so low I think an increase of 25mcg daily rather than 12.5mcg daily is more appropriate.
Retest after 6-8 weeks then decide what the next step is.
Doctors seem to have very little understanding of how to dose thyroid meds.
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