Thyroid how to know if it is not enough

[edfrienz]

I understand that since I had an ablation for Graves disease that I will always be hypothyroid.  The specialist put me on 150 synthroid.  It was to much and within 3 days I could not sleep.  She reduced my medication to 112 after testing and now I have a twitching in my chin and felt a little nervous today.  Could this be because she dropped me to low.  Now I have a twitching in my chin that I have never had before.  From my experience I felt that 125 would probably be the right dosage and I deal with low potassium and magnesium and take supplements.  I do not want to go through losing hair again but she said there would be no reason to recheck me for 6 weeks with the change of medication.  I started sleeping in about 4 days after the change even though she said it would take 3 weeks.  I was on Armour and they said the T-3 is just to strong and hard on the heart and you feel a bounce of energy and then lose it in a few hours.  I never experienced feeling a bounce of energy.  ***@****

[bebehoward]

I worry about Thyroid storm and don't know if it is caused by too much T3 or too much T4.  I have been really high on T4 when on Synthyroid and did end up in the hospital with heart papatations but what about T3.  I am now on Armour and my T3 is 34.5 with the top of the scale used is 37.  My T4 is low at 6 on the 5-12.5 scale and I feel I need more T4.  I have had an increase in my blood pressure since my T4 got down below 10.5 and I also have a low Vit.D but when I take a supplement my BP increases and I feel really bad.  It doesn't make sense to me why Vit D supplement would do this.  Any info would be appreciated....

[ChitChatNine]

WELCOME to the COMMUNITY - I'm not sure on the answer: I'm sure some of our "local experts" will stop by on Graves!

C~