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[NEUmarko]

Hello everyone, I know this is a long post, but please any comment helps:

Over the past year I've been having some health problems related to chest pain, faster pulse esp after eating etc. I am a 21 year old male, and I've never had any health issues in my life. I've been playing soccer and basketball throughout my childhood and never had any problems. In August 2014, after I started doing an internship, I drank a double espresso in the morning, like I always did, but in about 3-4 hours when I walked out of my office, I started hyperventilating and felt like I was going to faint. Thankfully a friend was with me and I got a multivitamin juice and drank it after seating down. From then onwards I started feeling a little dizzy, but I could exercise normally etc. Few months later, around December, I came back home and decided to do like a regular sports checkup after which the cardiologist said that my resting pulse is higher than average around 110 bpm and that I should do a thorough checkup of my heart. I didn't have any time due to my university schedule. I came back to my uni life and continued having symptoms like dizziness, weird sharper chest pain and kept on thinking constantly about my heart rate, which led to some sort of anxiety (don't even know what real anxiety is since I never suffered from it so far or maybe I do?). I started avoiding meals that triggered my pulse to go up, ate less, stopped exercising because I felt shortness of breath and as if Id faint, so finally around May, when I came back home for a holiday - I decided to visit the best cardiologist in town. He said that everything was ideal. I did an EKG, Echo, exercised on a bicycle with all those things hooked up and everything was fine. She then suggested I drink Magnesium 375 + Vitamin B6 and that I should check my thyroid and TCH levels as well as T3 and T4. So I did a thorough blood test and my Free T4 was fine 15.62 pmo/l, however my TSH level was 6.150. After that (since I had no time to stay back home and visit an endocrinologist) I came back to my university and I started drinking magnesium 375 + vitamin b6 supplement. My dizziness slowly went away but my pulse was still higher than usual and I didn't exercise for a while now. I used to go to bed and would suddenly wake up with a high pulse and like a small panic, it was pretty terrifying, don't know how else to explain it. I would sometimes get this like inner panic trigger that would increase my pulse, weird sensation. I bought a supplement for thyroid on amazon (link: http://www.amazon.com/Thyroid-Support-Supplement-Vegetarian-Ashwagandha/dp/B00M13NHFY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1439254107&sr=8-1&keywords=thyroid) and drank it for a month and I seemed to get better. I finally came back home for a summer holiday in the end of June and visited a great professor doctor endocrinologist with my May blood results where my TSH level was higher than normal and he said that it could be due to a jetlag etc and suggested I do another fresh blood analysis. So I did another blood analysis and my TSH levels were normal around 3.2 or something like that. And I went with these fresh new results after which he said it's not a thyroid issue and said it could by hypoglycemia. Now, I didn't tell him I drank that supplement which could have lowered my TSH levels between May and June. So in the last week of July I did the same sports check up and visited that doctor who said I should check my blood again and do an analysis for coxackie virus. I did the coxackie blood analysis and decided to test my TSH levels again. Again, I was shocked to see that my TSH levels were 6.150 while my T3 and T4 were normal. So I sent these results to my endocrinologist again and he said to stop drinking that amazon supplement and check the TSH levels again in 6 weeks. The blood analysis guy said that I should check for Adenovirus and CMV IGM and IGG. And after getting the results, I saw that my adenovirus results were fine owever my CMV IgG was 238.80 IU/mL which is extremely high, while CMV - IgM was negative.

Now, I know this is a long story but bare with me, I really don't know how else to sum it all up. It's been annoying me both physically, psychologically and emotionally this whole thing. Occasional chest sharp pain in the heart area always worries me and it happens at most once a day for like a second. I really don't know what else to do and I am going to be honest, I am not a huge fan of google-ing symptoms since that brings all sorts of negative things that could trigger even more panic. I sometimes have trouble breathing and taking a full breath etc. Some doctors say its anxiety etc... I really want to know what all of you think this could be? FYI, I don't drink any caffeine anymore for a year already, since that incident.

[NEUmarko]

Thanks so much for your feedback Red Star, appreciate it. I cant wait to already start drinking something because these symptoms are so unpleasant that I just wanna get back on track with my normal life

[Red_Star]

If your symptoms are due to not enough thyroid hormone the treatment is supplementing with thyroid medication to get your levels back to optimal again. With a TSH of 6 you should have better luck finding a doctor to trial you on a low dose of thyroxine.

[NEUmarko]

Hi Red_Star, yes it could be that I having those diagnosis, bradypnea is pretty much exactly what I have. Like a super short episode of as if Im going to faint and chest pain etc. Is there like a treatment for that etc? I stopped exercising because thats pretty much exactly what I feel whenever I start running etc.

[Red_Star]

Those labs show subclinical hypothyroidism and you can have symptoms with those lab numbers. Your symptoms you mention are possible symptoms of not enough thyroid hormone in the blood. If you want to check out quite a long list of possible hypothyroid symptoms google this article: 300+ Hypothyroidism Symptoms…Yes REALLY.

This article doesn't list all the symptoms either. O_o I know right. lol My worst symptom of hypothyroidism is severe bradypnea (in my case down to 6 breaths a minute). Bradypnea is an unusually slow rate of breathing characterized as under 12 breaths a minute.

I had severe hypothyroid symptoms with TSH 6 mU/L/Free T4 13 pmol/L due to combined cellular thyroid resistance and Hashimoto's thyroiditis.

Bradypnea - Causes, Symptoms, Treatment, Diagnosis...

"The onset of Bradypnea can affect the brain as a result of lack in oxygen supply. Multiple body system can also get affected with the insufficiency in oxygen supply. In the event of Bradypnea, the signs and symptoms should be carefully observed and these symptoms include the following:

Episode of chest pain
Syncope or episode of near-fainting or fainting
Extreme and easy tiredness from routine activities
Weakness and fatigue
Dizziness
Confusion or memory loss
Difficulty in breathing or shortness of breath"