tsh was unrecordable ,now normal but still feeling ill ,having surreal feelings and rushes of intense flushing all over and feeling faint

[susiebow]

I am out and about ,felt very ill watching the Hobbit in cinema,maybe too much stimulation ,does this make sense to anyone ?

[shaws Administrator]

It would certainly make sense to Dr Lowe if we was still alive today. This is an excerpt from one of his answers to a question:-

What our study shows is that the TSH level is not an accurate gauge of a patient’s metabolic rate. This finding is consistent with what we regularly see when we do metabolic evaluations for patients. We often find that a hypothyroid patient on T4-replacement—with an "in range" TSH level—has a metabolic rate that’s abnormally low. Often, the patient’s metabolic rate is severely low, sometimes as much as 50% below normal.

For this all-to-common undertreated patient—who suffers from chronic hypothyroid symptoms—the TSH level is simply not an accurate gauge; that is, the TSH level fails to correctly tells us what thyroid hormone dosage will give her a normal metabolic rate.

Typically, when the patient increases her dosage high enough to raise her metabolic rate to normal, she then has a "suppressed" TSH level. The endocrinology specialty, of course, will argue, or at least imply, that her suppressed level shows that her metabolic rate is too high. But this is proven false by our actual measurements of the patient’s metabolic rate.

Our measurements of patients’ metabolic rates, then, are objective evidence that TSH levels do not correspond to patients' metabolic rates. If the goal of thyroid hormone therapy is to provide a patient with a normal metabolic rate, the TSH level is for all practical purposes useless.

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Yes susiebow it does and I entirely sympathise.

It is very unpleasant and something I have suffered from for years.I have discussed it at my first visit to an Endo and he has requested an FT3 test for me.

It is like a nervous flush that radiates through the body and makes you feel faint.It has happened to me on various social outings and to me seems that when I'm watching something that stirs the emotion in me I can't handle it.Eventually it made me wary of outings that should be looked forward to and turned them into hurdles to get over,wondering if I was going to be OK.It is one of my main issues to solve now along with muscle pain.I just can't wait for my next Endo visit in February.

If you manage to throw any light on it for yourself,I would be pleased to hear from you.X