Afraid about the hyperthyroid results

[Dshadzz07]

I’m a very health anxious person and read it cause afib and lead to a stroke. I’m so scared.

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK]

There is a horrible tendency to see that some awful thing can happen, however rarely, and assume it will happen to us as individuals.

I have frequent tachycardia and continuous atrial fibrillation. While I have only been able to check for myself for a few months, I am quite sure I've had it for many years.

Still here!

If you do continue to have heart issues, then you can be prescribed a Direct Oral Anti-Coagulant (DOAC) to significantly reduce the risk of a stroke.

Most of us, however hyperthyroid or over-medicated we are, however long we have afib, do not have strokes.

Your heart issues are likely to improve significantly as your thyroid hormone levels drop.

It might be that other heart-related medicines will also be prescribed. Maybe a beta-blocker. Or a calcium channel blocker.

That is there are at least three prongs available for addressing your heart issues. See how they work.

[greygoose]

Dshadzz07 you don't have hyperthyroid results. You have the results of someone going through a Hashi's 'hyper' swing, which is not the same thing at all and is only temporary. I told you that in your last post, and said to just stay off the levo until you feel hypo again. But, not sure you even read it - you certainly didn't reply. No point in asking for advice if you don't read the replies!

This is something that happens to thousands of people every day because Hashi's is the main cause of hypothyroidism in the West. If it were really a problem, these people would be dropping like flies. But they aren't. Been through it myself several times, but I'm still here. There's really nothing to be scared of. Your levels aren't high enough to cause serious problems with your heart - a little flutter maybe, but nothing life-threatening. So, just stay calm and relax. It will pass.

[Dshadzz07 in reply to greygoose]

thank, no I did read your comment I just struggle to respond sometimes. Got bad memory. Just I get riddled with fear over everything. I’m sorry.

[greygoose in reply to Dshadzz07]

I understand. But the responses are there to reassure you. If you can't respond - and I know that's often difficult - just click on the <3 buttone (like) so that people at least know you've seen their responses.

[Lalatoot]

Hey don't be scared. You are not hyperthyroid. You cannot be. You are hypothyroid that is why you are on NDT. Hyper folks take a drug to stop their thyroid producing hormones. Hyper folks have ft4 in the 40s and higher and ft3 in the 20s at least when they are untreated. This is not you .Your last blood results showed you were either slightly over medicated or experiencing a hashis flare if you have autoimmune thyroid disease .

Either way reducing your dose will bring your levels down.

Anxiety is a symptom of being under or overmedicated and if you are usually anxious then this will just add to that . When I was like that I found that even though I had no worries I could make some ......the brain would latch onto any little thing and make it a major problem. It is awful .

So to recap, you cannot be hyper. You are slightly overmedicated at the moment and this can be fixed by reducing your dose and monitoring the results.

Big hugs

[tattybogle]

Hi Dshadzz07

assuming you have done as the doctors ( and forum members ) advised you a few days ago (stop levo for few days / week then resume at a lower dose) .. then you won't have hyperthyroid results anymore .. your T4 and T3 levels will have gone/ be going down.

yes it's true, having A-fib can lead to stroke ~ with A-fib one of the chambers in the heart isn't beating fully/ properly , and this increases the risk that blood in that chamber may form into a blood clot .. and if it did , then the clot could go round the body and if it got stuck in your brain.. that would cause a stroke.

But in order for that to be a risk , you would need to have A-fib first ... do you have A- fib ? (i suspect not, as you have had lots of recent heart investigations and the result all seem re-assuring, i'm sure if you had A-fib someone would have noticed and told you already)

if no A -fib , then you have no need to worry that you are at any increased risk of having a stroke.

the risk of getting A-fib does increase if you have too high T4/ T3 levels over a long period of time eg ... but you haven' had that problem ., you have only had a recent spike in T4/T3 levels since you increased your dose of levo .... and since you are the one controlling the dose of thyroid hormone you take, your thyroid hormones are unlikely to be over range for an extended period of time ......(unlike people with true hyperthyroidism who's thyroid is chucking out too much T4/T3 all by itself... then it is harder to lower T4/ T3 levels , they have to take anytithyroid drugs to stop the thyroid making as much T4/T3.. whereas you can just lower your dose of Levo to get T4/T3 back in range quite quickly )

You don't need to be worrying yourself about the potential effects of 'LONG TERM high T4/T3 levels coming from the thyroid' unless you actually have LONG TERM high T4/T3 levels coming from your thyroid .......you only need to deal with that problem if it happens , it hasn't happened yet ... so forget about it .

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