First time poster here. I’ve been diagnosed since 2 years and taking Levo 125 mcg daily. This last 5 days have been horrendous. Boiling hot one minute then freezing cold literally 2 minutes later and so on 24/7 ( ok 5 days so far ) nauseous, headache, freezing cold feet even on the hot cycle aching all over and physically drained. I can’t see my GP for 5 days! and I’m at my wits end. Any advice would be so welcome, Please.
My last test was last Christmas and I was told all was ok. I went to my surgery yesterday and eventually managed to see the practice nurse who said I have an infection. I tend to disagree, however I’m now on amoxicillin for the next 7 and swallowing paracetamol like sweeties to “regulate your temps “
Is this a normal part of this syndrome please?
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Oh you poor thing!! It sounds awful!! I think it sounds like a virus though. I wonder why the practise nurse gave you antibiotics?
If you can rest as much as possible and not take paracetamol and ibuprofen that’s the best course of action. The temps are the bodies natural response to expelling virus’.
However if you have commitments and you cant rest and the pain killers help then carry on, it just prolongs the illness by a day or two.
After 10 days if you see absolutely no change then it might be best to see your GP but I’m hoping you’ll see some relief after 7days 🤗
I agree with others, that what you have is an infection wholly separate from being hypothyroid. However, I do hope that you aren't actually "swallowing Paracetamol like sweeties" because it is a serious drug and can do great harm and even cause death. A study in 2017 I think, published in Scientific Reports, looked at the impact of paracetamol on liver cells in human and mouse tissue and showed that the damage it has long been known to cause to the liver was actually by harming vital structural connections between adjacent cells in the organ. When these cell wall connections, aka tight junctions, are disrupted, the liver tissue structure is damaged, cells are unable to function properly and they may die. It's the same type of cell damage known to occur in liver conditions such as hepatitis, cirrhosis and cancer, but until the study it hadn't been linked to paracetamol toxicity. Consequently the study authors reiterate that the maximum dose within a 24-hour period must never be exceeded, and that even taking just one or two more tablets than the recommended dose can cause serious liver damage and possibly death - paracetamol overdose is one of the leading causes of liver failure, and occurs twice as often in Britain than the rest of Europe - presumably because we used to think that paracetamol was a safe and benign OTC med that we could take with importunity. In fact Paracetamol-linked liver failures, severe enough that the patient needs a transplant, happen in the UK eight times more than in Holland, twice as often than in France, and 66 times more than in Italy, and in 2016 a study of seven countries commissioned by the European Medicines Agency found that only Ireland came out worse than Britain.
I don't know much about adrenals but have you had those levels tested? Are you menopausal as well? I've had hot flushes for many years and at one stage in my more recent Hashi's journey they seemed more extreme than normal and felt somehow different, as if the low thyroid hormones were affecting that as well. Hypothyroid symptoms are known to affect sex hormones and cause gyne. problems as well as just about every other body system.
Do you have any recent blood test results? That would help us get some idea of what is happening (don't forget reference ranges - usually in brackets after the result, or with a letter "R").
But, if you do have a virus, that will upset your thyroid function too, and you might feel more hypo even when the fluey symptoms go.
Let us know how you get on x
PS if it is a bacterial infection after all, and you aren't beginning to feel better 3 days after starting antibiotics it means they aren't working anyway, so ring doctor's again, if only for advice.
Adrenal issues can also cause you to swing from one temperature extreme to the other. But, with your other symptoms, I agree it sounds more like a virus.
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