palpitations / breathless

[kimbo]

hi all since being hypo i have suffered with anxiety and panic attacks (10 years) tried anti depressants which never worked, occasionally i suffer from really bad breathlessness which is very frightening i am currently on 100mg eltroxin, has annyone got any suggestions for me please x

[perks]

Hi Kimbo, If you have any of your test results ( which lab ranges) that you could post it might give someone on here a clue about whether your medicated enough / too much, so that they could advise more.... From a personal point of view I was very breathless before I was diagnosed with Graves and couldn't take more than three steps up the stairs before running out of air.. and then again 3 years later when I went Hypo I just felt like I was walking through treacle!!!..

There is a section on stopthethyroidmadness.com which has a bit about anxiety ( link below)

stopthethyroidmadness.com/t...

Which might be of interest.. I too was offered anti-depressants which were of no help at all as it wasn't my brain that wasn't working it was my thyroid!!!! as soon as my meds were any where near sorted I began to feel more like a human being..

Hope this helps even a little keep smiling and posting questions someone somewhere might just have the answers.

Perks

<b>Updated on Feb 2 2011 9:14PM:</b> P.S thyromind.info is on this sites home page at the bottom which is talking about it all being purely down to hormone imbalance. Perks

[Hidden in reply to perks]

Can't help, but just to say that I also suffer with breathlessness and have recently been advised by an endo that this is not a hypoT symptom! I do still try to exercise but stop when the breathlessness gets too bad. I am exhausted most of the time and suffer more if I don't get out in the fresh air reguarly, it's almost like a drug to me. I don't suffer with palpitations but have noise and light sensitivity.

[Zephyrbear]

When I became breathless for no apparent reason last year, my GP diagnosed asthma and has treated it as such. I am now taking Clenil Modulite, a steroid inhaler twice a day and Ventolin if the breathlessness gets too bad. They both help and control the condition well, but I am once again wondering if this was the correct diagnosis.If your breathlessness is as bad as you say, it may be worth your asking for Ventolin as I found this extremely useful. It just opens the chest up to allow you to breathe normally and I find that I don't even need to take the full dose to have this relief. I also took a "depression" questionnaire earlier this year when things got to me a little more than usual and with a score of 17 was found to be "severely depressed" and was promptly sent home with the appropriate anti-depressants, which I've not even bothered to open! Am very quickly losing faith in the medical profession altogether!

[kimbo in reply to Zephyrbear]

hi thanks to you all for your comments, yes the breathing side is not nice and the palpitations even worse, the gp have put it down as anxiety but i know for sure that it has something to do with being hypo as before i had this i was fine and ran around like a spring chicken (not anymore though) even the smallest walk and i an exhausted, i too have lost faith and am looking to go private soon to see if i can get some help xx