resting heart rates/antibodies

[Dawney63]

3 - 4 years ago my gp said my antibodies on thyroid test were very high, I think it was 2 years ago I asked gp what this ment he said atcsome point my thyroid would become underactive, I'm now wandering if I should have been started on medication a few years ago.Can a low resting heart rate be a indicator of underactive thyroid?

My resting heart rate as been low for a few years now, I have mentioned this to my gp on a few occasions.

On Friday I requested all my blood test results for the last year from my doctors surgery.

I have been through a stressful time, my partner died a year ago today and all my lose family members in the last five years , I started to feel worse in 2021 when my sister was very unwell (the ringing in ears started then) she passed away May 2021, so if course I put it all down to grief, after my partner died i read a note on his phone about me always falling asleep, I put the tiredness down to caring for my mum.

I can't turn the clock back but do keep wandering ( I'm a overthinker) if the gp should have put me on medication a few years ago.

[arTistapple]

Dawney63 I am so sorry for the loss of your partner and close family. I know that will be devastating. You might find that you should have been put on meds some years ago, or even many years ago. I still bristle about this myself and many on the forum I am sure will admit to similar. In fact I myself have wasted a lot of time thinking these thoughts - which I still think are true but the crux of the matter is these thoughts do not help me. Over thinking seems to be quite a common to hypothyroidism. Over sensitivity seems to be quite common to hypothyroidism. I often wonder if it’s ‘chicken or egg’ where hypothyroidism concerned. I don’t think it’s fully concluded one way or the other but I myself am convinced that hypothyroidism is at the route of much distress, even many years before it is diagnosed. Just because tests either cannot prove it’s there (or doctors refuse to acknowledge it) my experience of subclinical hypothyroidism is that it’s truly horrible not quite knowing what may be wrong.

Someone with more experience than me will come along shortly and ask you all sorts of questions and give you information to help you find a way forward with your ‘prospective’ thyroid journey. Best wishes.

[Dawney63 in reply to arTistapple]

Thank you, I also blamed all my issues to the menapa, begged my doctor for 3 years for HRT they finally relented and I had 5 years of HRT then they said no more. If thyroid is hormones, could the menopause also have a connection. 🤔

[arTistapple in reply to Dawney63]

Lots of women notice when they are menopausal or premenopausal that things are not quite right. My personal theory is that many of us hold out for years with symptoms but because we are young (believe doctors) and then next thing menopause stuff enters the frame! It’s just too much and if we were not buckling before, now is the time. A number of women have admitted to me they frankly opted for a hysterectomy just so they would be allowed a rest! Cure was a big hope though that did not materialise. I see SeasideSusie has been on to you.

[SeasideSusie Remembering]

Dawney63

I can't turn the clock back but do keep wandering ( I'm a overthinker) if the gp should have put me on medication a few years ago.

Was your TSH over range at the same time as your antibodies were elevated? If so you could have been started on Levo, if not your GP couldn't have prescribed because he is bound by the guidelines which state that TSH must reach 10 or, if raised antibodies are present then over range, before diagnosis.

[Dawney63 in reply to SeasideSusie]

I dont know what my TSH was I didn’t think to ask, I know I was saying how unwell I felt, tired, overwhelmed, anxiety, not sleeping, brain fog, forgetting things, not being me anymore i think it was put down to stress and grief, I was given antidepressants. I have asked for blood test results back to last january, last year I did ask my doctor if i could go on levo and he said my TSH was 8 and I should really wait until it was 10 but he gave me levo, but then mum died and my partner and I was in a bad place I stopped taking all my medication.

October 2021 my blood pressure went really high i had to go to hospital, since then ive had bouts of really high blood pressure am now taking blood pressure tablets and statins.

I am being good and taking all medication

Levo at 7am, started D3+k2 last friday 4 drops a day at about 11am, I take blood pressure and statin at about 7pm, i will introduce vitamin B complex 2 weeks after I started the D3+k2 .

Im not taking the antidepressants.

My appetite seems to have disappeared?

I got a celiac test but did it wrong so will order another one, when I have the financies I will do selenium test.

Folic acid was very low last November by gp blood test, I took folate.

Akso I'm concered about my 16 year old grandaughter, tiredness, weight gain, she was diagnosed with liw folic in december, gp gave her folic acidcand iron but shes still suffering.

[SeasideSusie Remembering in reply to Dawney63]

I take blood pressure and statin at about 7pm,

Statins aren't recommended for females, also check out what the NHS says about statins and hypothyroidism:

nhs.uk/conditions/statins/c...

If you have an underactive thyroid (hypothyroidism), treatment may be delayed until this problem is treated. This is because having an underactive thyroid can lead to an increased cholesterol level, and treating hypothyroidism may cause your cholesterol level to decrease, without the need for statins. Statins are also more likely to cause muscle damage in people with an underactive thyroid.

[SlowDragon Administrator]

Here’s your previous post with thyroid results from being on just 50mcg, the standard starter dose levothyroxine

healthunlocked.com/thyroidu...

Have you got new prescription yet to increase levothyroxine dose to 75mcg

If not get prescription asap

Try to stay on same brand as you are currently taking

As you’re on Accord (also boxed as Almus) …

Accord don’t make 25mcg tablets

So request extra 50mcg tablets and cut in half to get 25mcg

Get a weekly pill dispenser.

A) easier to check you have definitely taken levothyroxine every day

B) cutting 50mcg in half….put spare half in next days section

Retest thyroid again in another 6-8 weeks

Likely to need further increase in levothyroxine over coming months

Aim is to be on high enough dose to bring TSH down around 1. Most important results are Ft3 followed by Ft4.

And most importantly all symptoms resolved

[Dawney63]

ThanksI have a blood test booked atvthe doctors surgery for 9.45am on Thursday it as the earliest one i could get, gp said hes not increasing levo he wants blood test done first.