My Dr put me on T3 ( Thyroid) at The beggining i could raise it till 90 mg, but I started to feel palpitations and heart racing, só I started to 75, 60, 45, and now i am taking only 30 mg
The problem is i still have heart racing and palpitaions and i really don’t feel any better as i did when i was taking 90mg
Someone toldo i should raise my iron levels and see my cortisol
I spoked with my dr but she ignored me, and told me to stay on 30 mg of Thyroid and put me on Euthirox too
Would like to know your opinions thank you
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It sounds an awfully large dose to start on to me. You should start at about 12.5 and build up very very slowly over a few weeks. If I were you I would reduce and then start again.
I am NOT an expert but you have to treat T3 VERY carefully and increase very slowly. At the same time make sure all your other test results are high in their ranges. There are others on the forum who can advise better than me but I'm speaking from experience, and it does take a long time to adjust. You are fortunate you have it prescribed.
We always criticize our doctors because they do not know how to prescribe T3, if indeed they "have the courage" to prescribe it in the first place. You have presented an example of perhaps why some of them shouldn't try! A walloping big dose of T3 like this one can indeed cause a heart attack.
As SueHG says, you should have started at 12.5 mcg (I would even say 6.25mcg), take your pulse, if it has increased, don't take T3. Start at 6.25 mcg, increase the dose in tiny amounts until you detect an increase in your pulse and then back off to your previous dose.
I have no thyroid and I tried a bit extra T3 once and within a couple of hours noticed a 20 point increase in my blood pressure. You have to monitor your "vitals" very frequently when you are starting up on T3, you cannot rely upon the infrequency of doctor visits to monitor your status. Another note: T3 is very reactive, you will feel great for about 4 hours and then it's effect will wear off because it only has a half life of 7-8 hours. It's practically impossible for a doc to monitor your T3 levels because it will be super high in the morning, optimal in the middle of the day and low in the afternoon - not that they can't do it but it requires more attention than they have time to dedicate.
It's great stuff, but do read up about it and stay tuned to your body.
So you can disregard all the replies which refer to you taking T3.
Your Ferritin is pretty good, it needs to be at least 70 for thyroid hormone to work. You could nudge it up a bit, I've seen it said that it is recommend to be 100-130 for females.
What are your actual thyroid test results? Can you post them with their reference ranges. Also say what thyroid meds you were taking at the time of the test.
Those results are what you would expect to see when taking NDT. It lowers TSH, can suppress it, and it lowers FT4. One would expect to see FT3 higher in range.
Some people need a higher FT4 to feel well so dose adjustment, adding Levo, or whatever tweaking is needed to get the levels to where is best for you.
I can't say why you have racing heart and palpitations. If it's connected to your thyroid, it could be under or over medication, but your results don't show overmedication. Of course, it may not be connected with that at all.
I've just noticed that your transferrin is below range. Iron is complicated so I think you need to discuss that with your doctor.
As for your supplements, we're vitamins and minerals tested to check levels before starting supplements?
D3 you have to be careful with because Vit D is a fat soluble vitamin and excess gets stored so we need to supplement at the right dose. There are also important cofactors needed when taking D3 - magnesium and Vit K2-mk7.
We don't need Thyroid supplements, just optimal nutrient levels and optimal dose of thyroid meds.
I did some blood tests for vit D, and minerals before and i am taking magnesium and K2 too.
In what concerns to transferrin my dr didnt pay any atention to it, she only said hematocrit was low and that was because of vit B12
I just don’t know what to do, these heart racing is driving me mad and its starting to scare me
I wouldn’t like to stop Erfa because I never felt so good although I only felt really good when I was in higher doses, all my pains went way, no constipation, loosing wheight etc
But now even with only 30mg my heart is running to fast, I read in other forum that this can be because of low iron or cortisol, but don’t know what to do
Can you get to A & E when you have the heart racing? I would start keeping a diary of when this happens, how long it lasts, what you've been doing, eating, meds taken, etc.
I have recently started to experience quite severe tachycardia, nothing to do with thyroid meds, more likely to do with family heart history and now it's my turn. But having had one A & E visit, then another paramedic team called to my home, many further episodes, I am awaiting a 3 week heart monitor to try and find what's causing it.
Your haematocrit is low in range, but it is in range. Your transferrin is below range and I think you should ask about it.
I don't know a lot about iron, only what I read when I do a search. You have a decent ferritin level but you have no serum iron result. From what I have read:
A low transferrin result may mean you are absorbing more iron than your body needs. The liver slows production of transferrin so less iron is in the blood and more is bound to ferritin and stored. This could be due to over supplementation with Iron tablets or multivitamins.
In rare cases a low transferrin can be caused by a genetic condition called hemochromatosis. This is an inherited disease in which the body absorbs too much iron, even on a normal diet.
Please don't take that as diagnosing or advice, I am not medically trained so can't do that.
You can do some research if you want
and then talk to your GP about it. It surely has some significance being below range.
You could be pooling T3 meaning it’s not getting into your cells properly. This happens on low iron and non optimal cortisol. Have you had your RT3 tested? This could be the reason. Or deficiency in zinc, selenium and co. needed for cellular absorption.
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