Thats because you are over medicated...I stand by my earlier post...reduce down to 1.25...this is not big enough of a reduction to risk going hyper. I am confidant that if you do this...4 weeks later you will still be hypo.

I maybe feel a smidge warmer the last few days, and I've been using a few big words again. Maybe even a few hot flashes thrown in just to confuse the issue. I've been pretty sensitive to dose changes in the past. Dairytech, how confident are you I'd still be hypo in 4 weeks if I reduced my dose now? If I reduced my dose now, would I still have labs in two weeks, or wait another 4 weeks? Maybe I wait through the weekend, see how I feel Monday, then decide. Alternatively, is it an option to stop the med for maybe 3 days, then resume? Or is that a bad idea? Thanks!

You have a long way to come up...you are just slightly over the low end of your range....even your FT3 is slightly over the low end of your range. You have to be feeling like absolute crap!

You have a couple of choices. You can lower down to 1.25 and then wait the 4 weeks to lab...or...you can stop for 3 days then restart at the 1.25...or...talk to your doc about block and replace.

Personally...I would drop down to 1.25 then wait the 4 weeks to lab...if my labs came back as still hypo...which I'm pretty sure they will...then I would go off meds all together...wait 4 weeks to lab...which chances are you will still be slightly hypo...then I would look for a doc that would allow me to take a T4 replacement even though my levels are within my ranges but to low for my bodies needs. My goal would be to take enough T4 to bring my FT4 up to around 1.65 or 1.7 and see how I feel. I would lab every 4 weeks until I stabilize...because I know that even though I am hypo...I will experience spikes that will last a short while.....This is what I would do if these were my labs and history...Big Hugs...Kathy

I would just like to mention...since your FT4 and FT3 are both low...as your FT4 comes up by reducing your meds...its likely your FT3 will follow...but....your TSH will likely go down...do not worry about this....as long as it is still within your ranges your ok....even if its just above the low end.

The problem we have is...most of us do not know what our levels were prior to Graves so we dont know what our normal is so we have to experiment a bit...also we have antibodies to take into consideration.

Getting your levels up to where they need to be will help your eyes significantly and help them to heal...it takes a bit of time but the healing can then begin.

If I'm really honest with myself, I'm not even a smidge better, unless I had some effect from the one missed dose. (Occ hot flash may be from perimenopause?) I live in MN and am used to cold, but really--I'm wearing a base layer under my clothes, two sweat shirts, I'm inside, and I'm still this frozen? (Worse now than when my levels were below normal last year.) And I'm still not really firing on all cylinders. (Wishful thinking on my part that I was improving.) No energy. Guess I know what I have to do if I want to feel better. (If I were going to feel better with the 2.5mg, I think I would have started to feel that by now past the two week mark.) Thanks so much for your help and encouragement!

I'm encouraged because overall I'm feeling better. Just one thing is really, really bothersome. I seem to have no internal thermostat. I'm either freezing, or warm. I seem really sensitive to the air around me. So would this be me still adjusting to changing hormone levels? The freezing is the worst, like it's in my bones, but if I were still really hypo, wouldn't I feel that way most all of the time? I will admit to still taking the 1.25mg once a day--just can't see well enough to split it in a meaningful way.

Or might this remaining symptom be something else?

Check your diet, could be a possibility there.

{{{hugs}}}

I noticed Dairytech's comment that most of us don't know our preGraves levels. Light bulb moment as I actually have labs going back to seven years prior to Graves. I looked them up and was surprised at the yearly variations. My endo insists these labs don't "happen in a vacuum" meaning all kinds of things are going on in your body and life at any given time, requiring more or less hormone. I certainly did not notice any of these lab variations long before Graves. Makes me less paranoid about any little changes. I think symptoms run way behind labs anyway and changes upset things for a bit too, even going in the right direction.

I think I'm just getting impatient, which is totally irrational because of course Graves is a disease that requires a lot of patience. Since I felt improvement elsewhere, I wanted this symptom to go away, too. At least this is a symptom I can do something about by layering clothes or drinking hot tea. :)
And I'll examine my diet again. I suppose it's good to do that anyway at this time of year to help stay on track with the approaching holidays.