Being hyper but elevated tsh?

So my issue is that for a long time(2 years maybe) i have been experiecing symptoms that I have considered to possibly be due to levo overmedication. I have been diagnosed with Hashimoto's and on levo for the last 8 years. I was started on low dose levo when my tsh was close to 5 and in a course of 2 years i was up to 100mg because my tsh persisted rising above 3. Things started getting weird after 50mg but I didn't really connect my issues to possibly be due to levo.I am talking about crippling anxiety, insomnia, nervousness and for the last 2 years that I have been on 112mg, i have been experiencing these plus palpitations, a feeling of pressure in the head and blurry vision with photosensitivity. At one point I thought I was close to having a break down.

So at one point I made the connection and went to an endo to check up. I didn't go to my old endo because he didn't listen to me anyway, he was just looking at my labs and talking to my mother. He was changing dosages without even seeing me in person.. So, my labs showed elevated TSH again at 3.5 and despite that we decided to lower my dosage, since I was feeling that way, from 112mg to 88mg and retest in 4 weeks. Since the dosage change it has been close to 2 weeks and I feel like I flunctuate between hypo and hyper. I have been in an emotional rollercoaster. Sometimes I was feeling better and sometimes worse until things seemed to start leveling out a few days ago, where I feel more stable but again its not all the time. I still experience the nervousness and the blurry vision although it seems to come and go but the palpitations have stopped.

So I have two questions. Could I be overmedicated on levo despite my lab results? I am suspicious of my results because I was often slacking on my T4 medication so the elevated TSH could be because of the inconsistency of me taking my medication. And lastly is what I feel normal with the dosage change?

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