Erfa thyroid blood results confusion

[Booboo20]

Hi I've been on erfa for a few years now. I am on 3.5 grains. My bloods show up as being under replaced high TSH but when I try to increase my dose I get all the symptoms of being hyperthyroid. Can anyone help me to understand what's going on please? I'm considering switching to a combo of levo and erfa in case I'm T3 sensitive is this a good idea?

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[pennyannie]

Hello BooBoo :

There is nothing on your Profile page - if with Hashimoto's some people can't tolerate NDT as introducing thyroid gland, though it be from a pig, upsets their immune system further ?

Can you please share with forum members these blood test results and others you may have so we can try and see what is going on .

Did you start off on T4 - and had a conversion issue ?

[SlowDragon Administrator]

can you add actual test results

was test done early morning

Day before did you split NDT with last 1/3rd daily dose approximately 8-12 hours before test

What vitamin supplements are you taking

What are vitamin D, folate, B12 and ferritin results

Is your hypothyroidism autoimmune

[Jazzw]

If your TSH is high on 3.5 grains of Erfa, that’s quite odd. We would expect to see a suppressed TSH with that amount of T3 in your daily thyroid hormone replacement dosage. I’m not surprised that raising your dosage makes things worse—3.5 grains is already quite a hefty dose for most people.

As others have said, please share some blood test results and we’ll see if we can help you figure it out.

[adin]

Hi, yes you need some levo in the mix(12,5 or 25mcg levo)...