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Accidentally took too much Levthroxine(generic synthroid)?

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toughenough
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Posted 6/3/2012 4:14 PM (GMT -8)
I accidentally have taken 2-3 extra doses of my thyroid medication the last few days. Should I skip a day take a dose and skip another day?

I'm in the process of cutting down the dosage due to surgery 18 month ago. I have gone from 175 to 112 and it still needs to go lower as I'm way over medicated.

This how I messed up. My xanex is of similar size and color and in the same size bottle. The thyroid meds are a dark pink and the xanex a lighter pink but through the brownish color of the prescription bottles look the same. Plus I was not wearing my reading glasses. I could just kick myself. I got no sleep last night.

Do you think my plan to skip a day take one the next and then skip a day should work? Maybe I should take a few days of a half a dose? If anyone has any experience or suggestions I appreciate your help.

Thanks cry
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Elbee
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Posted 6/3/2012 4:19 PM (GMT -8)
A few extra doses of levothyroxine is not going to throw you significantly out of whack. I've messed up my dose a little bit before, and my doctor said don't worry about it, just get it right from now on. Starting now, just stick to your regular prescribed schedule, and you should be fine.

As far as your medications looking the same, I have the same problem with some of my meds looking essentially identical. And it doesn't help that pill bottles all look the same, too. I put different colored stickers on the lids of my prescription bottles to make it easier to tell them all apart-- purple is synthroid, orange is plaquenil, green is naprosyn, etc. It helps cut down on the confusion!
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toughenough
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Posted 6/3/2012 5:06 PM (GMT -8)
Thanks Elbee! Good idea about the stickers too. I put my medications in a weekly pill box with the morning ones on the yellow side and the evening ones on the purple side. I don't put in xanex or pain meds as they are as needed. Doesn't help much when you grab the wrong as needed bottle so I'm off to mark the top of that cap. Then like my dad, when I get a new script just put the old lid on the new bottle.

Thank you, you nave no idea how I was obsessing over this!
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