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Need advice...Anxiety and Increased pulse and synthroid

I am hypothyroid.  I was taking .88mcg synthrooid alternating with two days of .75mcg.
My endo said my test results were on the normal low side and changed my dose to .88mcg six days a week and .44mcg the seventh day, a month ago.

Since then, I have had bad anxiety spells with increased blood pressure, elevated pulse, irritability and moodiness.
The worst is how hyper I get about two hours after takking the medicine.

Can this happen from the change in synthroid dose?

I get so bad feeling hyper that I cry.

My fam dr says it's a mood disorder that I need to take an antidepressant for.  

Has this happened to anyone else?

Please give me your opinion.

Waiting on a return call from the endo.
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649848 tn?1534633700
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You should also not feel effects from your medication, in as little as 2 hours, since synthroid has a long 1/2 life and takes a while (days) reach full potential in your body, so the effects you feel today, would be from medication taken previously.

Since you react that quickly, I'd have to wonder if you are reacting to fillers/binders in the pills, rather than the medication.

You might ask your doctor if you could switch to Tirosint, which is a gelcap and aside from the active levothyroxine, it contains only water and glycerin, so is considered hypoallgergenic.
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That was a very, very slight increase in dose.  On the 88/75/75 pattern, you were averaging 79.3 mcg per day.  On 88 six days a week and 44 the seventh, the average is not quite 81.7.  A change of a mcg or two shouldn't have that kind of effect unless you were very, very close to being hyper at the time, and "results on the low normal side" wouldn't seem to support that.  Anything else that might explain your symptoms?  Change in brand name or generic to brand or vice versa?  Other meds changes?  Supplements?  Diet?  General health?

Are you ordinarily very sensitive to meds?
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