If, on the other hand, you were on vacation immediately before your hormone levels were determined and you were recovering well, then you consumed considerably less hormones during this time than you ingested. If your doctor does not ask about this, he will diagnose an apparent oversupply and reduce your medication dose. However, your next vacation may be a long way off and therefore you need significantly more thyroid hormones in your daily stress than you are now taking. Once again, it is only a matter of time before the first symptoms of illness appear, but this time they are similar to those of hypothyroidism: listlessness, fatigue, depressive moods and weight gain. And again there is the danger of a misdiagnosis, such as depression or burnout syndrome, because the hormone level has just been checked and the medication seems to be correctly adjusted. If antidepressants are now also administered completely unnecessarily, those affected are also caught up in a vicious circle that can turn psychologically healthy people into mental wrecks within a very short time.
Therefore our tip:
Have the dosage of your thyroid medication checked more often than just once a year, especially if you suffer from burnout, depression, anxiety or even panic attacks. It is not uncommon for these mental problems to literally disappear into thin air when it turns out that you have simply been taking the wrong dose of medication. And when you go for a blood test, make sure that at least 15 hours have passed between the last time you took your thyroid medication and the time of the blood test. If you normally take your tablets in the morning and go for a blood test immediately afterwards, you run the risk of getting wrong results. Especially after taking natural porcine hormone, the T4 level is elevated for some time. This can give the false impression that the dose needs to be lowered.