I am deathly ill please anyone thyroid help?

[Angeld13]

Ok I really need some help on 4 14 my tsh was 4.87, my t4 was 0.6, and my t 3 was 3.2. The dr that day put me on progesterone cream which I stopped a week later as I felt it was making me worse. A month went by my insomnia became a lot worse, I called the dr who put me on the armour and she lowered my dose from .45 to .30. As she thought I was going hyper. I continued to get worse, losing weight, extreme anxiety, insomnia, chills and sweats, low body tempature, not sleeping even a hour some nights. So last monday 4 13 I called my gyro as she's the only other dr I had. The first dr stopped returning my calls, my gyno ordered blood work. I also went to the er. The results at the er sodium was down 135 potassium was 3.6 and chloride was 104. Bun creatinine ratio was down at 9.2. The next day my tsh results came back 14.3, t4 .07, and t3 free 2.8. The gyno switched me back to synthroid 50 mg a day. I did that since last Wednesday, I am steadily getting worse. I did not sleep at all last night, had ten stools this morning, losing more weight, anxious and feel like I'm losing my mind, freezing cold all night, body temp down this morning to 97. I did 50 mg synthroid this morning and 25 more a bit ago. I'm self medicating at this point. I'm scared. I have a endo appointment on Wednesday. I hope he is decent. This is destroying my life and I'm almost on the verge of losing my job if I don't show up for my shifts. Has anyone had symptoms such as these? And what can I do to get some sleep the next few days?  And has anyone had their numbers shift so quick? I've never been tested for hashis. Anyone ? Help please ????

[gimel]

I think that the doctor(s) have been confused by some of your symptoms, which they interpreted as being hyper.  They don't realize that, ocasionally,  those symptoms can also be caused by being hypo. Following is an extremely long list of symptoms that can be caused by being hypothyroid.  I think you will find all of yours in there somewhere.  

http://hypothyroidmom.com/300-hypothyroidism-symptoms-yes-really/

Your last thyroid test results are also extremely indicative of being hypo.  Many of our members say that relief from hypo symptoms required Free T4 at the middle of its range, at minimum, and Free T3 in the upper part of its range.  Your Free T4 (I think you meant it was .7)  and your Free T3 of 2.8 are way lower than that.  

I have no idea what you may run into with the Endo Wednesday.  Many of them specialize in diabetes, not thyroid.  Also many of them have the "Immaculate TSH Belief" and really pay attention only to THS levels.  Your TSH level is high enough that it certainly should get the Endo's attention and get you started toward adequate thyroid doses; however keep in mind that a good thyroid doctor will treat a hypo patient clinically by testing and adjusting Free T3 and Free T4 as necessary to relieve hypo symptoms, without being constrained by resultant TSH levels.  Symptom relief should be all important, not just test results.  

So while with the Endo, I suggest that you should find out if he is willing to test for both Free T3 and Free T4, and also to treat clinically as necessary to relieve symptoms, rather than just treating by blood test results.  If not, then you will need to find a good thyroid doctor.

For the possibility of Hashi's, you need two tests, TPO ab and TG ab.  Since hypo patients are also frequently too low in the ranges for Vitamin D, B12 and ferritin you should requese those as well.

[Angeld13]

bump~please anyone? my dr wants to put me on nortriptaline and I'm terrified