Over medicated symptoms

[haggisplant]

What are your over medicated symptoms please? I'm wondering if I am.

[Clutter]

Haggisplant, palpitations, fast pulse and heart rate, and shortness of breath, can be due to under and over medication. Diarrhoea, sweating, elevated temperature, and hand tremors are usually due to overmedication.

When I was overmedicated and had high FT3 last year the only symptoms I had were mild hand tremors, increased hair loss (in clumps) and rapid growing and brittle nails.

Got any results you can post?

[haggisplant in reply to Clutter]

No, my last results were very good - optimal - but I was definitely over medicated for some time last winter (complicated but I was on sertraline, they realised it was an issue as tsh 3 and I was very weak, so put me up but also started weaning me off sert in case it was causing adverse affects to me muscles - consequently, as GP wanted to stick to 3 month rule, I was in a mess.

When I was put on sertraline they thought I had pnd - however I now know it was being on too much thyroxine after a period of not enough - my best dose is an In between dose. I was actually very 'out of it' dizzy and achey which I recently learnt can be a hyper symptom.

HOWEVER, pre child I used to be on the Teva brand which was withdrawn (during pregnancy so that was another issue) but also I was on beta blockers for stress. I destroy take them now but both situations might mean actually, now, I need less than before!

Or I just have ME!

I did accidentally take a double dose last week and now feel dizzy and weak, achey. At the same time I went away and probably over did it; I'm still building up strength and stamina.

I feel like I'm in a bit of a nightmare !

Last night I felt v hot, racing heart and couldn't sleep. Today I feel drugged.

[haggisplant in reply to haggisplant]

Last results in May, but I know I will need to make sure I'm very strict before a test as I know I've messed up at least once if not twice in the last month!

[Clutter in reply to haggisplant]

Haggis, skip 2 or 3 doses and see whether symptoms improve. If they do, you can reduce dose. What dose are you taking?

[haggisplant in reply to Clutter]

I'm 125x 4 a week 150 x3. I think I took an extra 150 10 days ago which would effectively put me on equivalent 150 each day. Which is bad for me!

But I'm still regaining strength etc so I guess the extra could potentially make me tired rather than buzzy.

Perhaps I should miss tomorrow's dose and try to be very rigorous for the next month, then test?

I suffer so terribly if my tsh is over 1.5 for any length of time I am nervous to mess too much.

I had been slowly rebuilding muscle etc.

On an aside- I get very frustrated people think thyroid things make you fat/ thin. It's muscle myopathy, I'm Skinny what ever state I'm in so really notice it.

I'm trying to body build.

[Clutter in reply to haggisplant]

Haggis, I've always been skinny apart from a couple of years when I suddenly gained 13kg which was probably the onset of Hashi. Just as quickly lost it, and some, look gaunt now.

I can't see how you can be buzzy with TSH 1.5. It's too high for most people. I take 75/100 alternate days. I set a reminder on my phone so I know which dose to take.

[Pinkpeony in reply to Clutter]

Clutter like you I lost weight and then some more in the few months I have been on T3 .

The pil says that weight loss can happen.

What do you think?

I will need a junior bra shortly if it continues 😱

Pp

[Clutter in reply to Pinkpeony]

PP, you're doing better than me, I need a 'this side up sticker'

T3 can cause weight loss but I gained some when I was on T3 only. I lost 7kg when I started Levothyroxine. Got some back but I still want the rest.

[Pinkpeony in reply to Clutter]

Thanks Clutter

I don't yet need to wear my glasses to know which side I'm facing lol

The Endo took reams of bloods two weeks ago to see why I am still shrinking 😕 but I wondered about the T3

Pp

[Clutter in reply to Pinkpeony]

PP, I know for sure it's Levothyroxine with me as I've gained 2.5-3kg each time I've been off it for 4 weeks and then lose it a couple of weeks after resuming T4.

There are a few shrinking members on the forum. I was advised to drink Complan in addition to small frequent meals but I don't like it. I rarely drink tea and hot drinks so I may use soups as winter warmers and see whether that makes any difference.

[Pinkpeony in reply to Clutter]

I eat normally and love chocolate so Idont know what more to do .

Complan is out for me.

Maybe I should have a boob job but at my age I think not lol

Thanks Clutter

[Zephyrbear in reply to Pinkpeony]

Oh, how I wish!!! How on earth have you managed to lose weight??? Up is the only direction mine takes relentlessly, despite being on T3/T4 for around 5 years now. For someone who used to be able to chuck whatever she fancied down her neck with NO effect on weight, whose 'walking the dog' would be miles long (even on 20-a-day!) and who had energy to spare, the restrictions on my life by this unremitting growing oversized slug around my middle are becoming downright depressing. And as for the boobs... don't even go there!!!

[Pinkpeony in reply to Zephyrbear]

Hi Zephyrbear

I was overactive 3years ago and lost 21 pounds in weight .

I then had RAI and went Hypo .

Since Endo introduced T3 I have lost several more pounds.

It's not a good look for me as I have always been long and thin .

If you read Clutters responses to me , she basically has the same problem.

I asked the Endo why some people put weight on and some don't and he didn't have a clue.

Pp

[haggisplant]

I just really hope I can cope with work tomorrow. It's an extra late finish too. Dreading it if it's like today. Daren't call in sick as I've been off for so long

[haggisplant]

Sorry I think you misunderstood, as most of us I start to get quite unwell at tsh 1.5 +, as in hypo.

I'm buzzy if i take 150, however last two years of lots of dose adjusting 150 sometimes made me unable to sleep but dizzy and not with it.

Its confusing as 'not with it' aka treacle brain is hypo symptom.

[thyr01d]

Hi Haggisplant, I was overmedicated recently and symptoms were the same as for under-active thyroid plus feeling 'driven' and anxious.

Someone lovely though pasted on here a link to myxoedema madness which links to magnesium which links to something called hyponatremia. Looking at these symptoms, I think that my diagnosis of ME is incorrect and that I might just need to correct manganese levels. I'm wondering if you might too??? It's definitely worth reading if you have been diagnosed as hypo and with ME because the symptoms seem to be the same.