Internal tremors, vibrating feeling with nausea..

[Nala18]

Hi, thank you in advance for your help. For the past year, I have been experiencing tremors upon going to bed, I would be awoken by them. They are progressively getting more violent, stomach distress, nausea, and diarrhea are now accompanied with them. I have been to the ER countless times, to only having raised BP as a result. They do all kinds of "life-threatening" blood work, tell me that I'm fine and send me home. So I have seen an Endocrinologist, Neurologist and more. Again, everything is normal, until two weeks ago my trip to the ER showed a slightly high TSH. I now am experiencing these symptoms intermittingly throughout the daytime as well. I went to a new Endo and I am waiting on my "again" Thyroid test to come back. I know that this is real and I need help from others who experience this. I am so lonely as I feel like this battle is becoming an everyday episode with no one who understands or has answers.

[humanbean]

Internal tremors are often associated with having too much cortisol or too little cortisol.

If your thyroid is failing and you have too little thyroid hormone to keep you well then I've read that the body substitutes cortisol for the missing thyroid hormone. And it isn't a good substitute.

The adrenal glands may be so good at supplying cortisol that you end up with high levels. Or it may be good for a while, but then the adrenal glands give up the ghost. Or they might not be good at supplying the required cortisol from quite early on.

The solution is to get the missing thyroid hormones replaced and then, with luck, the adrenal glands sort themselves out and the cortisol levels will return to normal. But in some people the levels of cortisol stay too high or too low and self-help measures are required. Permanently having levels of cortisol which are too high or too low can make it very difficult or even impossible to get the thyroid hormone replacement levels right, so it isn't a trivial issue.

Doctors consider cortisol being too high or too low of no relevance at all to health unless the person has Cushing's Disease or Cushing's Syndrome (where cortisol is catastrophically high 24 hours a day) or Addison's Disease (where cortisol is catastrophically low 24 hours a day).

[Nala18 in reply to humanbean]

Thank you for your reply...my cortisol levels have been rising, but not over the "normal" limits... July 2017 they were 5.5 - November 2017 they were 19.9...But the Endocrinologist said they are within the normal range. I am so frustrated as to how to normalize these levels by myself...Unless you are in a crisis, doctors leave it be. even feeling like I do. I just had another adrenal 24 hr test this week, waiting on results.

[humanbean in reply to Nala18]

I'm afraid the numbers you've supplied don't mean anything to me. What was tested? Blood, urine or saliva? What time of day was it tested? And do you have reference ranges?

The adrenal test you've just had done... What kind of test was that?

[Peems]

Hi Nala l am having same problems but mine accompanied by dizziness,sudden heat surge, sobbing & total fatigue.Been in bed 11 days with this episode. You are not alone! My TSH 30.3 & was already on T3 plus now extra T4 since GP saw state was in Monday.Waiting to see Endo but not til 14th Sept.Great! Our lovely Dr Peatfield here in UK says these symptoms are Adrenal Fatigue so ask your Endo about that.Hope this helps.Peems