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Usually when no dose exists for an intermediate need, doctors have the patient take the higher dose and skip a day or two per week, or the lower dose and double it a day or two a week.
Since levothyroxine is not "active" but is stored around the body and converted, it does not have an instant effect, like T3 does. I know my endo would not let me cut my 50 mcg to make 75 when I was raised. (he told me to throw them out) Since a 37.5 does not exist, the alternative is to skip days with either one step higher or lower.
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