Nat Clin Pract Endocrinol Metab. 2006;2(9):474-475. J.V. Hennessey is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Brown Medical School, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI, USA. Disclosure: The ...

Your healthcare provider will help monitor thyroid hormone levels in your blood to determine the best levothyroxine dose for ...

restart at lower dose. Myxedema coma: use IV levothyroxine. Adults: Monitor TSH 6–8 weeks after dose change then every 6–12 months when stable. Peds: Monitor TSH and total or free-T4 at 2 and ...

Synthroid (levothyroxine) is safe to take while pregnant. Certain factors, including the risks of not treating your condition during pregnancy, may determine whether you should take the drug ...

The following parameters were measured before and at 6 and 12 months of levothyroxine treatment with an average dose of 1.5 to 1.7 μg/kg/day: thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), free thyroxine ...

The number of overtreated individuals could—as mentioned in our publication—be underestimated, since persons with a TSH level in the lower reference range and low dosages of levothyroxine ...