Overmedication Symptoms Adrenalin rushes at night

[ettiebetty]

hello, does anyone else suffer with this? I get horrible adrenalin rushes repeatedly as I fall asleep/during sleep when my thyroid meds get past a certain level (happens with all variations of med types). It often accompanies other hyper symptoms too. I have hashimotos.

[Regenallotment]

hey, I know this feeling, it can be lots of things.

When did you last get a blood test thyroid panel with FT3 and FT4? If not in the last 8 weeks, that would be my first step before looking at anything else.

What doses of what meds vitamins and supplements are you on?

hope you are able to rest up and recover.

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[Jaydee1507 Administrator]

This is a particularly nasty symptom and likely due to being under replaced.

HypO symptoms can be remarkably similar to hypER symptoms. I see you stopped taking T3 a while ago. Did you ever manage to get optimally replaced on the combo of T4 & T3?

What were your best blood results on the combo and what are they now?

Have you had vitamins checked lately?

Are you gluten and or dairy free?

[humanbean]

I would suspect being under-medicated, rather than being over-medicated.

Another possible factor is your cortisol level.

If thyroid hormone levels are low the body tries to replace it with cortisol, but it isn't a good substitute. People can end up with very low or very high cortisol, and neither of these is good for us.

The problem is that if the patient starts to produce more cortisol than they should do, then the patient gets given thyroid hormone treatment, they have the problem that they no longer need so much cortisol but the body may take a long time to reduce cortisol output. So thyroid hormones plus high cortisol can cause anxiety, depression, "rushes" which could be caused by adrenaline or cortisol...

When I refer to high cortisol I'm not talking about Cushing's Syndrome levels, I'm just talking about levels of cortisol which are higher than desirable.

Cortisol may be measured by GPs with a 9am blood test. Cortisol output has a circadian rhythm. It isn't consistently the same throughout day and night. The blood test should be done at 9am to capture the highest levels of cortisol during a 24 hour period. If the timing is wildly different then the cortisol result might essentially be random and not helpful.

Cortisol can also be tested with saliva - the best tests available are from Regenerus Labs and Genova Diagnostics UK.

Note that cortisol in blood and cortisol in saliva are not testing the same thing, but getting both done can be helpful. If only one is done I would suggest going for the saliva test.