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2021-01-02 03:33:40
Hello, if someone suffering from hypothyroid, how doctors decide right dosage of thyroid medicine. If someone is taking 75mg of thyroxine, is it a heavy dose, is there any possibilty to make it 25 mg?
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Dosage depends on many factors like age, gender, coming morbidities, weight, past surgical/ radiation history, symptoms, antibodies test etc.
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The thyroid dose depend on tsh level
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