Incredibly foolish mistake - not sure what to do!
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About couple of months ago, I increased my NDT from 150mg to 157mg for about 3 weeks. I started to feel over-medicated, so I dropped my thyroid meds to:
Day1: 120mg
Day 2: 120mg
Day 3: 60mg
Day 4: 30mg
Day 5: 0
Day 6: 30mg
Day 7: 60mg
BIG mistake! I am now on Day 22 back at 150mg, and am suffering both hypo and hyper symptoms. The worst of it has been a strong heat flash about 2 hours or so after my NDT dose. How do I get through this???
Thanks!
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diane88860 evej13
Posted
I am not educated enough to give you any real advice other than 'don't fool with dosages!' I'd suggest you call your doctor and get a blood test ASAP.
evej13 diane88860
Posted
Yes Diane, you are right. I did get a blood test about 5 days after I reduced the dosage.
FT3 3.94 (ref 3.9 - 6.7)
FT4 15.9 (ref 12.0 - 220)
I saw some info here: https://patient.info/forums/discuss/hot-flashes-299729 on this issue and thought I would ask my question because things seemed similar for this poster.
mar75090 evej13
Posted
You increased dosage just 7mcg than felt overmed than dropped dosages but inconsistently and than go back to 150mcg and complain about heat flash. Why would you go back to 150mcg.
guess bc you were allover the place with dosing. If you feel that bad maybe skipping a day would help more or decrease slowly. Heat flash not as revealing as your heart/
pulse rate, blood pressure, body temp, respirations, at the time. But you should go to doctor's office so he can record vitals etc and manage you.