[CycleColo2013]

#1060086

Six weeks out post-TT; five weeks with .150 mcg of Levothyroxine. Labs this week confirm I am hypo (not surprising to me given how I am feeling.)

Perhaps illogical to ask this question without the actual lab results in front of me and without having had a direct conversation with my physician (holiday week) but I am somewhat baffled and would love to assuage my curiosity before that conversation takes place – Monday the earliest.

When I spoke with the nurse she indicated that the physician’s prescribed course is to lower the Levothyroxine dose to .137. If I am taking a thyroid replacement because I don’t have a thyroid, and I am currently hypo – wouldn’t I need an increase in dose to arrive at a normal level? What am I missing?

Thanks,
Bill

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#1180215

It sounds like a mistake was made somewhere along the line, perhaps wait on changes until you can talk with your endo directly?

[karenz516]

#1180216

Hi Bill, good to hear that you are doing well!!!! I could be completely off base here and by no mean even close to being an expert, but I remember when my endo started me off on Synthroid he said it would be a process to find that right sweet spot in dosing and they don’t want to give me to much and make me hyper again. Which thoroughly confuses me (not hard to do these days). He started me on .75 of Synthroid upped it to an extra .75 mg on Thursdays and then next visit upped it too an extra one on Sundays which put me at .88 mg., then upped it to 100 mg. So now I am on 100 mg daily. I guess there is an issue of not making you too hypo or hyper.

Karen

[Talley]

#1180217

That doesn’t make any sense…I agree, if you are hypo then the meds should be increased not decreased. Maybe the nurse had it wrong…

I’m two-and-a-half weeks post TT and I am very worried about becoming hypo! My doc started me on 100mcg (I weigh around 115).

I’m really curious to hear what the doctor says on Monday – I wouldn’t decrease anything until you speak with him. Let us know!

[Kimberly]

#1180218

Yes, it sounds like something got lost in translation during the phone conversation. I would wait to make a final judgment until you have the labs in front of you and have a chance to speak with your doctor directly.

One thing that might have been confusing for office staff is that *low* TSH is associated with hypER and *high* TSH is associated with hypO. It’s the opposite for the actual thyroid hormones (T3/T4) where *low* is hypO and *high* is hypER.

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