Cortisone injections

[Fencerope]

I have recently had an injection in my shoulder, and have been feeling hyper ever since(five days). Settled down during the day mostly, but still not sleeping at night.

Is this known to affect hypo people?

I am sure one of you good people will know

[Diberg]

I had the same thing happen prior to knowing I had thyroid issues. Ended up in ER as I thought I was having a heart attack.

Take your blood pressure and pulse. If high, go to an ER or take something to calm your system down: magnesium, inositol, Xanax, Ativan, etc!

[Annde70]

I am presuming this was a steroid injection. I had one in mine a while back, had no such reaction to it

[jennygrigg]

From my understanding cortisol helps transport thyroid hormone to your cells, so maybe it is possible that the extra cortisone helped more thyroid meds get into your cells. This is presuming you are on thyroid meds. Also higher cortisol can affect sleep, giving you a tired but wired feeling. Hope this helps a little but probably worth checking with you doctor to make sure everything else is ok.

[SilverAvocado in reply to jennygrigg]

I was thinking what Jennygrigg said - it can make your thyroid hormones more available, so it's as if you took a much higher dose. I had this experience when taking adrenal cortex in the past.

[rosetrees]

If you have thyroid problems, it's very possible that you also have adrenal problems. A massive dose of steroids will have affected your adrenals. You might already have had high cortisol levels. All they've done is administer a band-aid as they don't know the cause of your shoulder problem. Well, they might do, because if it is a frozen shoulder one of the common causes is poorly treated thryoid problems. (Somewhere there is a video with Dr Tim Jackson who states that treating the thyroid properly will cure a frozen shoulder, but I can't find it)

When the steroids have cleared your system, order the saliva cortisol test from GenovaUK - thyroiduk.org.uk/tuk/testin...

Then go back to your doctor and make sure they test TSH, FT4, FT3 (they might refuse to do this), iron, folate, ferritin, Vit d, Vit B12, thyroid antibodies. Make sure you get the results and come back and post them here, with ranges.