Extreme anxiety, palputations, high blood pressure-common with hashimotos???

[allyc27]

Hi there. I was diagnosed with hashimotos a year ago, Im 27 now. It started with panic/anxiety attacks and palputations, constent neverousness depression, insomnia, High blood pressure and heart rate. So I was put on an anti-dep but that didnt help, months later I finally had a blood test and TSH was 15 with auto antibodies. So I started thyroxine 50mg. This helped but aftre a while I had to drop the dose to 30mg a day because my TSH dropped really low quickly to 2.4, and T4 was 20. My heart would start raceing all by itself extremely fast and violently-very scarey! and I started to have panic attacks again. So I decided to stop my medication completly and my doc agreed. I am still on Avanza, Beta blocker, and Xanaz when needed. I dont want to be on all these meds for the rest of my life! And at only 27! No doc has been able to explain whats going on with my thyroid! Its so frustrating. Im so tired of feeling so speedy, anxious, irritable, the freaqent bowl movements, and at the same time tired and depressed. I thought the thyroditis should only last a few weeks or at most months. I just dont know what to do! Any healpful suggestions?


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[stella5349]

That's the best way to start back Ally.

Good Luck

[allyc27]

Thanks for all the advice guys, its very comforting to know there actually are people out there who can relate and give solid explanations. As I dont have a family history and in the whole year havent found 1 doctor who could really explain to me what u have.

I guess I will go back on my thyroid med, but on a very low dose to start off with and slowly increase it, which I think is what my doctors should have advised in the first place.

Thanks again

[blsdnsvd]

I have those same issues that came with removal of my thyroid.I did have HBP before the TT but it became higher after.

My levels are not where they need to be and this is the reason for the added issues but i am a strong believer that it will improve once my levels improve.

[LazyMoose]

As Stella summed up, you need to get back on thyroid replacement med.


"Extreme anxiety, palputations, high blood pressure-common with hashimotos???"

- All of that can be from a Hypo condition, or not having stabilized thyroid levels.  When my levels were unstable in the past BP went up a lot, and this was while hypo. And being hyper from too much med to fast had the same results. The closer I get to my ideal level my BP actually gets better than average - where I once was years ago.

One thing about Hashimoto - stress has more effect on the body than non-hashi people. The more the thyroid dies off, the more it becomes dependent on meds, and the less it can self adjust thyroid hormone for what the body reqiures at the moment. Like a car with the gas pedal fixed in one position, regaurdless of the hills climbed or not.

Maybe talk top the doc about easing into the med, every other day for a while? T4 med (what you had) is really administered in a weekly dose, it builds in the body. Your cells dont consume it the day you take it, so in small doses are not as noticable as bigger doses.

[stella5349]

Take some time on the boards here and pull up common posts on Hashimoto. There is a ton of information available on older posts here.

Hashimoto is a very unpredictable autoimmune condition and the lab test TSH is often falsely identified as were you really are. When your antibodies are rearing it confused the pituitary in releasing or holding the signal for the thyroid to push out hormone. I certainly in a symptomatic episode wouldn't rely totally on that TSH.

For the record of many success. A TSH of 1.0 or below with Hashimoto is where many feel improvement. You haven't come close and I could say that most likely your antibodies are in attack mode and you would be feeling awful with that happening.

I haven't heard one person say they saved their thyroid function when Hashi is present and eventually things will die off and you will be permanently hypothyroid. MANY however find relief from these attacks and can stabilize to  degree by taking 200 mcg of Selenium ( a supplement) until the rage ends which could take quite a while - even years.

All those meds - especially the anti-depressants could be worsening your condition. Suppression of antibodies with selenium first - is best and then start to read true numbers on proper labs so you can benefit as best as possible until those autoimmune antibodies stp attacking permanently.