Thread: Synthroid Dosage. What should I do?

So I was recently diagnosed with "hypo"-thyroid. My TSH level came out to be 12 while the normal range is 0 to 5. My doctor prescribed me 75 mcg "Synthroid", one tablet every day. After taking this medicine for 2 months, I had my labs done and the TSH level went down to 8.5. While it was coming down, the improvement wasn't as good as the doctor had expected.

He upped my dosage to 88 mcg, twice a day Wednesday and Sunday, and once a day rest of the days. I started taking it and after two months had my labs done. The TSH level came out to be 3.5, which is a perfectly normal range.

My doctor says you should continue to take 88 mcg, twice a day Wed and Sun, and once a day rest of the days (basically the same dosage that I'm taking now). He said this dosage brought me to the normal level. I told him that even a lower dosage of 75 mcg was bringing my TSH level down, so why he is keeping the dosage same as I currently take. This will keep on bringing my TSH level down and would push me to "hyper"-thryoid.

FYI, a TSH level below 0 means you are hyper-thyoid. You neither want to be hypo, nor hyper. Infact, similar kind of thing happened with me before. I was diagnosed with "hyper"-thyroid so he prescibed me a medicine called "Methamezole". After I got my labs done, he found out that the quantity was too much and it pushed me to "hypo"-thyroid with a TSH of 29.

Do you think I shouldn't listen to him and take a smaller dosage? Well, I can't write my own prescription but at least what I can do is rather than taking two tablets on Wed and Sun, I can just take one.

Thank you so much in advance.

U should listen to him /me my self is not hypoth but have high bmi so i took 400 mg eltroxine for many years to decrease my weight ....i am still a live texting u...without any deleterious side effects