Silly Synthroid

Okay my TSH is 8.56 and I was on 200 mcg of synthroid. I have been on 200 mcg’s for 16 weeks. I was 12 then 10 now 8 at each six week interval. Therefore, I am going down, but quite slowly. Now the doctor added 25 more mcg’s, so it is at 225 the limit of how much synthroid you can have. I am hesitant to take so much. I don’t know what would happen, but feel like it is a great deal of synthroid. No one else I’ve spoken to has a script for that much. I am thinking I might cut the 25 mcg’s in half and just had half to begin with. It does take six weeks to even out. I am waiting to talk to the endocrinologist to see if that is what I should be taking. this balancing of the medicine and the TSH level is the hardest part of losing one’s thyroid. Some other people I have talked to have been leveled within six months of surgery, although none of them waited three weeks to got on meds, because they know they weren’t going to have the radioactive iodine at that time. The surgeon was letting me bottom out so if I had the radioactive pill my body would crave the iodine. The oncologists decided that it wasn’t necessary. but by then numbers were above 100. After the first six weeks on synthroid I was down to a 73. The next six weeks I was down to a 42. Then a 23 then a 12, 10, and 8. In between all of the switches my synthroid was going upgradually 135 to 150 to 175 to 200. Hmmm, I am missing one dosage change. I need to get that from the doctor’s, well one of the doctor’s at least.

Okay,l I have to call the general doctor and have them fax my last labs to the endo tomorrow, and then the endo will tell me what to do. I’ll let you know.

Scar - 9 months later