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Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,128 | Synthroid is a medicine that duplicates what your thyroid produces; 88 mg is the dose -- Often they have to play around with the dose, and check it in a month or six weeks to see what the effect was, then maybe change the dose. When he said lower, your thyroid wasn't producing enough, so the synthroid is raising the production. Here's more from this site on hypothyroid (Hypo is under-production; Hyper is over production), more of which can be found by using the search engine on the MAIN PAGE: http://www.oralcancerfoundation.org...ID%3A11&q=thyroid&sa=Search#1048
Age 67 1/2
Ventral Tongue SCC T2N0M0G1 10/05
Anterior Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 6/08
Base of Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 12/08
Three partial glossectomy (10/05,11/05,6/08), PEG, 37 XRT 66.6 Gy 1/06
Neck dissection, trach, PEG & forearm free flap (6/08)
Total glossectomy, trach, PEG & thigh free flap (12/08)
On August 21, 2010 at 9:20 am, Pete went off to play with the ratties in the sky.
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