Oh what an awful day!
So for the last four days I've had chronic chest pains and elevated heart rate. It won't stop. Today at work it happened and I also felt intense rushing feelings and chronic brain fog I felt like I was going to pass out.
Today I went to A and E. they took me to a ward did extensive blood tests, an ECG and actually felt my thyroid for the first time! The result ? Nothing I have "anxiety."
I take 75 mg of levothyroxine for hashimotos. I went up two weeks ago and these symptoms all started about 4 days ago. Is it more likely to be my hashimotos causing it or the levothyroxine? I ask as I'm thinking of reducing my dose tomorrow morning as the doctors have written me off with anxiety and sent me on my way with beta blockers and told me to continue my 75 dose.
My tsh is 3.2
My T3 is 5.3
I am gluten free by six weeks and I take all vitamins
If the beta blockers help, stick on them while you get dose up higher
I had to do that years ago, as couldn't increase dose, but needed to, it's fairly well recognised pathway
Thanks. Is it true that they stop the Levo from
Working? I'm not sure what to do
It slows conversion, which can actually help, if your not taking enough Levo.
Plus it reduces your use of adrenaline, as lowers anxiety which can improve adrenal fatigue, enabling you to increase your Levo.
See my profile, I was on propranolol 19 years (and Levo)
Thanks. I'm sat here really confused what to do because I have terrible adrenaline and anxiety I'm constantly deep breathing to try and push through it. I can't help but think I must be on too much Levo and I should cut back.... I feel like I've suddenly got hyper symptoms.
Increasing our dose is necessary, but if been hypo long time, it can upset adrenals. Blocking the adrenaline gives you a chance to recover.
What dose propranolol have you been given? 10mg pills?
Go to see GP in morning and talk it through. It is a relatively common treatment, to help get body use to Levo dose.