My endo increased my T3 drug from 30mcg to 40mcg last week.
I have chronic anxiety, the cause of which, I think, is environmental issues. Then a strange thing happened last night:
I had a dream where I was buying something, but the seller suddenly doubled the price. I felt severe anxiety in my dream. I was aware I was dreaming, but chose not to wake! When I did wake, the anxiety was still there and is still present, but is greatly reduced, as I write this. I just have a knot in my stomach.
Clearly, the anxiety attack was not caused by environmental issues. My endo warned me thatanxiety could be a side effect of the drug.
Has anybody else experienced increased anxiety from the T3 drug, but with a relatively low T3 reading?
Thank you.
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Please add ranges in brackets after your results, as these can vary between laboratories. Was TSH also tested?
I need to make adjustments in thyroid medication super slowly, as this causes my anxiety to spike. When adjusting Levothyroxine, I only increase by 12.5mcg until well tolerated and with Liothyronine, 2.5mcg.
Remember to retest levels 6-8 weeks after any increase.
Thanks Buddy195. TSH was 0.01 (0.27 - 4.2). FT3 range (3.1 - 6.8). FT4 range (12 - 22).
Yes, my endo does increase my dose by quite a large amount each time. So, if that's the cause of my anxiety spike it should ease off over time. We retest every six weeks. I am hoping that at their present levels of 20mcg T3 and 200mcg Levo, we should hit optimum levels very soon.
I agree with above comments. I wrote a post recently on this subject - and my slavishly following the idea that ‘more is better’ when it comes to T3.
You speak of your relatively low levels. I think it’s important to remember though that the journey is as important as the destination - and it’s better to arrive safely at your optimal FT3 level by small dose increases and regular testing.
Edit:
I see your FT3 was 4.3 but I wonder how long you left between taking the last T3 and testing. Another mistake I made (I made many!) when I introduced T3 was to leave 24 hours as I always had done with Levo. This gave me a false ‘low’ and led to my making a real mess of things by adding more T3 when I didn’t really need to.
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