I’m normally a healthy 27 year old woman with an active job.
For the last two weeks I’ve been feeling generally unwell. Started with muscle weakness and heart palpitations that ended with two trips to A & E with a resting HR of 130.
Since then generally got weaker. No sleep, fatigue, lost 7 pounds in the last 2 weeks. Irritability and anxiety. Also have constant tremors and palpitations. I’m absolutely knackered but feels like my body won’t relax. Feel better when I’m walking round but I’m still so tired. Have looked online and my symptoms do fit with a problem with the thyroid.
Only blood tests I had were a Week and a half ago. Everything was normal except Vit D which was 29 and given supplements to take for a month. Thyroid was tested but only the basic one and didn’t see the results.
Contacted the doctor on Friday who emailed me to say it was likely a viral infection and it would get better.
Just need some advice before going back to the GP as I don’t think I’m being taken serious.
Thanks 😢
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Vitamin D is dire. Just taking a supplement for a month won't do enough to give a long-term benefit - especially now it's winter. You will need to continue to take supplements even after the NHS stops prescribing.Basic thyroid testing would be TSH, free T4 and free T3. If you are hyper (over-active thyroid) you would expect to see low TSH and very high free T4 and free T3. More thorough testing would include all thyroid antibodies, ferritin, folate and B12.
SeasideSusie will hopefully pop up in a bit to add more info on vit D and nutrients; and SlowDragon gives great advice on the best private blood tests and discounts available via Thyroid UK.
In the meantime, you are legally entitled to your blood results, so I suggest you get hold of them, so you can see what has been tested and the actual results. Good luck x
“Thyroid was tested but only the basic one and didn’t see the results.”
You are legally entitled to printed copies of your blood test results and ranges.
The best way to get access to current and historic blood test results is to register for online access to your medical record and blood test results
UK GP practices are supposed to offer everyone online access for blood test results. Ring and ask if this is available and apply to do so if possible, if it is you may need "enhanced access" to see blood results.
In reality many GP surgeries do not have blood test results online yet
Alternatively ring receptionist and request printed copies of results. Allow couple of days and then go and pick up.
Important to see exactly what has been tested and equally important what hasn’t been tested yet
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 you have autoimmune thyroid disease (Hashimoto's) diagnosed by raised TPO or TG Thyroid antibodies
Hyperthyroid- Graves’ disease - important to test TSI or Trab antibodies
Ask GP to test other vitamin levels and thyroid antibodies if not been tested yet
Recommended on here that all thyroid blood tests should ideally be done as early as possible in morning and before eating or drinking anything other than water .
This gives highest TSH, lowest FT4 and most consistent results. (Patient to patient tip)
Private tests are available as NHS currently rarely tests Ft3 or thyroid antibodies or all relevant vitamins
Your description of your symptoms scream "hyperthyroid". If u could get those basic thyroid test results, it might shed some light on what's going on, and any more testing that needs to be done.
Somehow, your symptoms don't sound like just a viral infection.
I hop u can share your thyroid results with us when u have them.
Sorry guys haven’t been able to get back on to reply to this thread. But basically went to work on Monday after another night of not sleeping and ended up in A & E again with a HR of 152.
Again they did bloods, ECG and everything was normal, including thyroid. Didn’t tell me the exact value of TSH but it was neither low or high. Monday evening attended my GP and told her about the twitching and Tremours who put it down to surprise surprise anxiety.
Honestly don’t know what to do. I’m still not sleeping, I’m not getting aches and pains in my joints and my back and continuing to twitch and feel like my heart is racing.
I’ve ordered a full thyroid test from
Medicare which should arrive in the next few days. Any advice would be greatly appreciated as I’m feeling overwhelmed right now.
Sorry you’re feeling so unwell. When your test kit arrives have a look on here for advice about how and when to do the test. Post your results when you get them and knowledgeable people on here will get back to you.
If I assume you weigh 140 lbs (10 stone) and that the units of measurement of your vitamin D result are nmol/L, then with your level of 29 nmol/L the calculator returns the following :
All suggested intake amounts are based on a weight of 140 lbs
Maintenance Dose
To achieve the desired serum level within approximately 3 months, a supplementation amount of
4,000 IU* (100 mcg) per day (this includes your current intake amount)
will be sufficient for 50% of people to achieve the desired serum level of 100 nmol/L
or
6,000 IU* (150 mcg) per day (this includes your current intake amount)
will be sufficient for 90% of people to achieve the desired serum level of 100 nmol/L.
Loading Dose
To quickly achieve the desired serum level within days†, a dose of
25,000 IU (625 mcg) per day can be taken for 7 days, followed by the above maintenance dose.
*Values rounded to the nearest 1,000 IU and are capped at a maximum of 10,000 IU/day.
†This calculation is based on published data by van Groningen et al., Eur J Endocrinol., 2010
Hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific studies have documented the well-established safety of single 'loading' doses of vitamin D to get levels up quickly (1-26). Loading doses ranging from 100,000 IU to 600,000 IU have been shown to rapidly increase vitamin D levels, but fail to sustain levels longer than 2-3 months. Larger doses induce more rapid breakdown of vitamin D (1-2). Therefore, the customized loading dose has been divided into doses of 25,000 IU over a number of days to achieve the initial increase in vitamin D levels. The maintenance dose is your custom daily dose recommended to achieve and sustain the desired levels of vitamin D.
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