dosage question

October 23, 2003

Before you all tell me " I told you so " I want to say that thankfully

things seem to be working out okay with my doctor and I. After the

following labs on October 10 my doctor RAISED my methamazole dosage

from 30mg to 40 where I was to take 2 pills in the am, one in the

afternoon and one at night.

FT4 1.34 (.61-1.76)

TSH <.004 (.35-5.5)

T3 Uptake 31 (24-39)

Even though I disagreed, and was warned on the board about what would

most likely happen, I decided to at least give it a try her way. I

think mainly so I could go back and tell her what happened when I did

things the way she wanted as opposed to what *I* wanted. Petty, but

that's the way I felt at the time. <shrug> After just 3 days I could

tell that I was going into hypO territory and that was NOT where I

wanted to be. (I know the signs of hypO better than my own since I've

dealt with my daughter's Hashi problems for the past year or so.)

Anyway, after feeling like I had a constant case of the achy, sleepy,

freezing all the time flu, I decided myself to at least go back to

the 30mg where I started until I could talk to my doctor the first of

this week. Things didn't seem to get any better, of course, just

slowed down and leveled off a bit. Finally got ahold of the doctor

yesterday and after talking to her through her nurse, dosage has been

lowered to 20mg a day. The nurse keeps talking about TSH level and I

am assuming this is coming from the doctor, so I think I've got some

educating to do yet (even while I'm trying to get myself educated),

but at least she seems to be responsive to my calls for help. I'm

taking this as a good sign for the future of our relationship

together.

Now, on to my question.......Does it matter HOW I break up this

dosage? Should I take 5, 5, and then 10 at night or 10 in the am

followed by 5 and 5? Or do you try to get them as even in dosage

amounts as you can? I was doing alright with the 10mg 3 times a day

(that one was easy! LOL), but just wondering if it's going to make

any difference how I do this 20mg total dosage? Or, am I just making

this more complicated than it needs to be! I do sometimes have a

tendancy to do that too. )

Thanks!

Carolyn B

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