I keep getting a thumping heart, pounding in head/ears with feelings that something is about to happen. This has been going on for pretty much 2 weeks.
I have nothing to be stressed about other than my head wound from my op in February that is taking time to heal. I saw the dermatologist last week and he prescribed 2 different treatments to help it and apparently it is starting to.
But I feel so het up and I think it must be down to that subconsciously. I have bothered doctors and hospital so much lately over my scalp issue so I want to try and sort myself out if I can.
This morning I looked up natural tranquillisers and came across Ashwaghanda, but it does mention interactions with Levothyroxine so I’m not sure whether to buy it or not.
Has anyone used it? or can anyone suggest anything else natural to calm me down that is safe to use? I have used camomile tea in the past for sleep, this is going back decades. I don’t have problems sleeping at all, just this anxiety thumping. Blood pressure is fine btw.
Yes, I’m still on 75mcg. To tell the truth I couldn’t be bothered chasing up my thyroid after all the worry over my * head in December and onwards. I just didn’t feel like coping with more than one thing at a time, I already had another doctor on my back about my liver and cholesterol. I just want to crawl into a cave away from the lot and stay there.
* Diagnosed as a squamous cell carcinoma on my head, a biopsy was taken at the time of my operation. When the results came back recently they didn’t find any trace of cancer, that it was some sort of immunity thing. The dermatologist whom I’m seeing and who did the op was shocked at the result, he said he would have sworn it was a cancer. I even looked it up and it did look like one to me.
when did you last test B12, folate, ferritin and vitamin D
These likely to drop with dose reduction in levothyroxine
What vitamin supplements are you taking
Anaesthetic can dramatically lower B12
Suggest you get thyroid and vitamin testing done
Most people when adequately treated will have Ft4 (levothyroxine) at least 70% through range
Your last test
Free T4 (fT4) 14.8 pmol/L (9 - 19)
Ft4 only 58.0% through range
Recommended that all thyroid blood tests early morning, ideally just before 9am, only drink water between waking and test and last dose levothyroxine 24 hours before test
Is this how you do your tests
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 all relevant vitamins
Thank you, yes Ido it all correctly but I couldn’t tell you when I was tested last for vitamins. I had a blood test booked a couple of months ago but when I went for it the phlebotomist was extremely confused as to what I was being tested for because 2 doctors had requested different tests. I told her I was there for my thyroid test and assumed that was what she took my blood for. When I got the results back they had tested for everything else liver etc. but only T4 for thyroid which really annoyed me.
Thank you, yes it is frightening especially when your brain tells you that you are about to drop of your perch. It is also supposed to be something to do with digestion which had started to trouble me again. Maybe it is all related, who knows.
I saw this from a post on the IBS site, I still read there but haven’t suffered with that for 10 or more years.
I have gotten good at seeing the anxiety feeling as separate from myself and my situation/surroundings.
I can realize the difference between legit situational depressed feelings (like dealing with chronic disease and symptoms) and the chemical buzzy feeling of dread from low thyroid hormones.
I cant stress enough, if you did indeed drop Levo 2 months ago and this is popping up for you, I’ll guess it’s very related and I hope you are able to get your thyroid bloods optimized via a possibly needed Levo increase.
I think it was around January that it was dropped from 100mcg. I was doing fine on that until a doctor started looking at results. She wasn’t even my doctor, that’s the problem when there are a few of them. I know I need it raised but quite honestly, I need to get my incision mended first. After that I will do something about it. The trouble is every time you ring, you are either in a queue to the moon or your own doc isn’t there and you’re stuck with the duty doc.
It’s a fight, but - as this is a thyroid forum full of people with sub-optimal thyroid - there are tons of stories here about the 1000 symptoms we experience lifting once our Free Ts are where they need to be.
It’s a fight. But this forum helps with how to navigate that fight step by step.
Incidentally, I read through some of the other ashwaghanda posts and “reviews” are mixed. Works for some doesn’t for others, but not necessarily contra-indicated to Levo and hypo in general, but definitely has a specific mechanism for how it works.
We'd better be CAREFUL . . . with these complex botanicals, . . . & look (carefully enuf) . . . before leaping to buy a box of the powder, . . . or capsules . . . , as inexpensive as those may seem, . . . it might be said.
. . . hope that's of help ! Did trial it myself at the start of the year, on the suggestion it was a powerful anti-inflammatory, . . . but in my (N=1) case, . . . didn't find it helpful at all ! 😨😲😨
Sid 🤔
Sat 25 May 2024 - after a cooler day . . . when summer felt more distant!
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