Palpitations

[marigold22]

Are palpitations, really bad ones, a sign of too much or too little thyroid med? I only take T3 and have had an incredible amount of stress lately over family matters.

[Clutter]

Marigold22,

Palpitations can be due to under and over medication.

You were over medicated on 40mcg T3 3 weeks ago. Did you reduce dose?

[marigold22 in reply to Clutter]

I did reduce down for ten days but started to get the symptoms I know I feel when medication not high enough. I panicked as I went 25+ years under medicated and it wrecked my life. Can't live like that again.

[Clutter in reply to marigold22]

Marigold22,

How much did you reduce?

[marigold22 in reply to Clutter]

By 10mcg a day

[Clutter in reply to marigold22]

Marigold22,

I doubt your FT3 levels will have dropped much after reducing 10mcg for 10 days. It was probably still over range. Anyway the likeliest explanation for your palpitations is that you are over medicated.

[marigold22 in reply to Clutter]

ok thanks

[JAGL in reply to Clutter]

Hello Marigold,

Last year I pushed myself really hard on two projects for 9 months. Over the winter I went from normal (formerly hypo) to hyperthyroid with accelerated heart beat, high (for me) blood pressure, ringing in the ears (a sure sign of toxicity for me), hair loss, intense fatigue.... I felt like I was ageing very fast and then like I was dying.

I spent weeks on internet trying to find out what was wrong. I realised that I'd become allergic to the thyroid medication I've been taking for about 30 years. Finally found an endo who listened to me and agreed to change to another form of levo w/o maize and less other fillers. I also saw my allergy/immunologist who told me that stress can do strange things to one's system. He mentioned in passing that thyroid problems used to be really rare. Now with all the chemicals and agrobusiness (ie prepared foods) thyroid and other endo problems like lack of vitamins are not only becoming common but they are growing at a frighteningly fast rate.

No one seems to want to see how our problems fit into the big picture of what we are doing to the earth.

[Kitten1978]

marigold22,

Palpitations can be a sign of overmedication, undermedication or a sign of tired adrenals. Given that you've been under a lot of stress I wonder whether it would be the latter. If our adrenals are tired (stress makes it worse) they don't produce enough cortisol. Cortisol regulates glucose level in the blood as our brain needs a constant supply of glucose to survive. When cortisol is too low, our adrenals increase adrenaline production as adrenaline increases the level of glucose. Unfortunately, it also causes very unpleasant symptoms: palpitations, anxiety, insomnia etc.

[marigold22 in reply to Kitten1978]

Thanks, Kitten1978, certainly mega unpleasant symptoms. I've had really low adrenals in the past which Dr P picked up on.

[Kitten1978 in reply to marigold22]

I've read your previous post and I'm puzzled. Your FT3 suggested overmedication but 40mcg of T3 was less than an average T3-only dose. I guess we are all different...

High doses of vit C are good for adrenals. I recently started Thorne Research Adrenal Cortex. Hopefully it will help. Here are some links:

stopthethyroidmadness.com/a...

stopthethyroidmadness.com/2...

pl.iherb.com/pr/thorne-rese...

There is also a good adrenals support group on yahoo: rt3-adrenals.org/

Take care xx

[silverfox7]

The only way to make sure is to retest but I feel that if you were over medicated that may still be the case. So two options-I know this doesn't feel helpful but either sir it out and see if you start to feel any better or drop down a little more and see if that helps but whatever way you go given it time to make a difference than then retest.

[Sweetart]

Stress causes havoc ,as I understand it it steals your energy,making you feel too medicated, (i felt over and under mediated at the same time at times of stress)you definitely need to test to see what is happening in your blood sometimes it corrects it's self ,other times it can stay too long making a vicious circle.(resulting in illness and depression) Keep on top of it ,you can get a print our of your blood results or Get access online through your surgery.

I was recently in drs after 10 yrs of going high and low, my body got stressed and make it all worse ,I now check my own results and dose as needed,finally calming down.(i am also a bit b12 deficient)

*it might not be for you but I have acupuncture for stress and to balance hormones ,it might be a placebo I don't know ,but calming the body and brain for an hour can't be a bad thing.

[lucindajethol]

Too much thyroid i would hazard a guess under normal circumstances. But stress makes me feel like that too. If you are worried about anything it plays havoc with sleep so you lie there overthinking, turning over things in your mind and a lot more conscious of what is going on with your body ie palpitations you say. Might be an idea to discuss it with your doctor as it is possible for your heart to get out of rhythym, it happened to my sister. Get it checked out.

[marigold22]

Thanks, I've recently done as my doctor asked and reduced my dose. They have subsided a bit after one week on less.