Hello everyone, I just wanted to hop on here because my doctor wouldn’t take me seriously. I’m 20 years old and 4 months ago I was diagnosed was hypothyroidism. TSH 7 so without any question they put me on Levothyroxine 50 Mcg. After I start taking levo I couldn’t stop peeing and I had bad muscle pain like all over my body so my doctor told me to stop taking levo for 6 months and thn she’ll test it again. So after I stopped taking levo I started experiencing symptoms like shortness of breath and racing heart 95 bpm when I wakeup in the morning it makes me very uncomfortable. I got my ECG and Xray done and they told me everything is fine but I don’t feel fine so my only question is.. is it related to my thyroid condition or it’s something else?
Help!!!
Also After taking levo for 3 months my TSH was 2.75!
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Rapid heartbeat can be hypothyroid symptom, due to low FT3 or low vitamins
How long since you stopped taking Levothyroxine?
For full Thyroid evaluation you need TSH, FT4 and FT3 plus both TPO and TG thyroid antibodies tested. Also extremely important to test vitamin D, folate, ferritin and B12
Low vitamin levels are extremely common, especially if Thyroid antibodies are raised
Recommended on here that all thyroid blood tests should ideally be done as early as possible in morning and fasting. This gives highest TSH, lowest FT4 and most consistent results. (Patient to patient tip, best not mentioned to GP or phlebotomist)
(when back on Levothyroxine, Last Levothyroxine dose should be 24 hours prior to test, taking delayed dose immediately after blood draw).
If/when also on T3, make sure to take last dose 8-12 hours prior to test
Ask GP to test vitamins and thyroid antibodies at next test
Private tests are available. Thousands on here forced to do this as NHS often refuses to test FT3 or antibodies or all vitamins
Medichecks Thyroid plus ultra vitamin or Blue Horizon Thyroid plus eleven are the most popular choice. DIY finger prick test or option to pay extra for private blood draw. Both companies often have special offers, Medichecks usually have offers on Thursdays, Blue Horizon its more random
If antibodies are high this is Hashimoto's, (also known by medics here in UK more commonly as autoimmune thyroid disease).
About 90% of all hypothyroidism in Uk is due to Hashimoto's.
Low vitamins are especially common with Hashimoto's. Food intolerances are very common too, especially gluten. So it's important to get TPO and TG thyroid antibodies tested at least once .
Hello thanks for the reply but I’m not from UK. I live in United states and here you really have to beg your doctor to test you it’s ridiculous anyhow, I got my vitamin D, ferritin, vitamin B12 and folate tested.
So vitamin D was( 7)which is pretty low also ferritin was (17.8),folate (11.2) and B12 (280). And I also got my antibodies tested and she said its normal.The only thing is she wouldn’t test my whole thyroid panel as she said it’s not necessary.
Hey it’s not letting me add more thn one picture to the post for some reason but she prescribed me medication for Vitamin D and told me stay off of levo and idk what to do anymore.
The heart race i got too.. before testing. So probably it s a symptom. But did u day that now is around 3, right? The tsh level.. which is not bad, but try doing the other tests t3,t4,atpo, because these can be bad if tsh value is ok.
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On 100mcg Levo keep waking at 4am heart rate has increased. 
T3 increasing my heart rate? Help please feel awful! 
Increased Heart Rate with NDT
Increased heart rate after eating
High heart rate from reducing T4/reduced heart rate from increasing T4
