What if anxiety and panic attacks have nothing to do with your thyroid?

[Clutter]

The article discusses generalised anxiety disorder and panic attacks.

outsmartdisease.com/general...

[shaws Administrator]

Thanks for this link. It is interesting.

I think most of us have met persons who have panic attacks or maybe even had one themselves and it is very scary to them as they haven't a clue what's going on. They don't have a problem with their thyroid gland so the panic attacks are not caused by a dysfunction.

I think many who do have a problem with their thyroid gland and are beginning to have panic/anxiety attacks are not yet on the proper dose of medication. I agree it can be very scary. This is a link I've just read which is also helpful.

helpguide.org/articles/anxi...

[Clutter in reply to shaws]

Thanks, Shaws. That's also a good link. I agree that under medication is also likely to contribute to panic attacks.

[samaja in reply to Clutter]

And to 'add to the confusion' thyroid undermedication man not possibly be the issue at all but low levels of ferritin, vit d3 or b12 etc could be (which may of course impact the thyroid as well) as each of them may be the cause of hypertension and stress and of course adrenal fatigue may kick in as well.

This week I have received very illuminating results from my hair analysis which show the relationships and proportions of minerals in my hair/body and describe my metabolic type (thyroidal - no surprise here 8-)) The whole description sounded as if they personally have known me from birth and all the past and general trends they highlighted were spot on. What is important is that things such as your response to long and short term stress, metabolic rate, adrenal and thyroid function are also described there in relation to your diet and general lifestyle and this gives you (and your practitioner if you have one) a chance to customise your treatment a bit more beyond the trial by error supplementation and general recommendations we all should be good for us but not always seem to work.

Following some changes I started to make according to this analysis I am observing that my anxiety is going down and I am generally feeling better. Seems that as my ferritin and vitamins are rising the need for thyroxin is going down or at least I will be able to measure my hormons more reliably and stabilise it as I still have no clue what is the right dose for me following the rollercoaster of the last two months.

So the point is - if your body is malfunctioning on the deep cellular level which might start happening a lot earlier than any tangible symptoms show or things are reflected in blood tests leading to a formal diagnosis you might experience anxiety and panic attacks as the first signal your body is sending to you and it might be useful to go deeper into your body to see what the chemical factory the body is is doing or, more accurately, what you might be doing to it to decrease your weelbeing and good health and take action there and then. Guess I always believed in prevention more than in curing though I know you would need to know an awful lot yourself to start with or the whole health system would have to be reorientated from intervention to prevention to make things happen that way.

How is that for a theory?

[Clutter in reply to samaja]

Samaja, sounds like a sound theory to me Interesting what you say about the hair analysis. More than 40 years ago my mother wanted her hair coloured and permed. Hairdresser was worried about the condition of her hair and sent it off for analysis. Report came back advising one or the other, not both and suggested mother was thyroidal and see her doctor. She had severe Graves, thyroid eye disease and a whopping goiter which was removed a few weeks later after referral by a locum who spotted it as soon as she entered the consulting room. Had sadly been ignored by our family doctors for years.

[samaja in reply to Clutter]

Yes I believe that hair analysis is a very useful tool among all the other tests you can have. BTW I can now see that my perm and hair colour within the last six months may now have been the smartest ideas 8-( and although vanity will suffer I believe that was the last time I had them done. Unless there are some really friendly colouring alternatives to the usual batch of chemicals (to which I am now oversensative) I will have to learn to love my own untreated hair.

But on the positive note - two more good days on the current regime so something is working finally!

[jezebel69 in reply to samaja]

That sounds amazing!! Maybe its what we all need - would love to follow the same route as you samaja

[samaja in reply to jezebel69]

HI Jezebel69.

Nothing stopping you following I hope

Happy to give pointers but remember we are all unique and what is working for me may not be good for somebody else and a lot depends where you are and for how long things have been going on. But good luck to you.

Samaja x