Why would my mother's PCP increase her dosage of levothyroxine which is prescribed to her for underactive thyroid if her thyroid hormone levels measured high? I'm no doctor but it's my understanding that levothyroxine increases levels of the thyroid hormone so why would someone need even more of a medication that increases something that is already high. Shouldn't it be decreased. But yet her doctor has increased the dosage twice in the last 8 months. The first time because it was just a little high according to her PCP and this time it was even higher so the dosage was increased yet again. The dosage has doubled in the last 8 months and her thyroid hormone level has more than doubled. It seems to me her PCP doesn't know what she is doing. Is there a reasonable explanation why her PCP did this.?