night flutters/

[dmac13]

I am 48 yrs old diagnosed with GD 7 yrs ago. RAI and synthroid and PRN Lorezpam and have been relatively stable until recently!     I have been hyper (the Doc says it is most likely due to age/hormone changes and I also joined a gym and have been working out 3 x's week) with all of the typical symptoms (except weight loss) but the worst is the heart "flutters" / palpitations.   I seem to notice them more at night when I am "at rest" or sleeping.  I have dropped back my synthroid from 175 to 125 and as of last week I am taking 75mcg and yet I am still experience the "flutters" occasionally accompanied by some chest pain.  I feel like I am in the middle of a vicious cycle, I become more anxious when I get "flutters/pain" which I am sure doesnt help!   Has anyone else had these "night flutters" ??   Thanks!  

[stella5349]

TeenaCee

I am wondering about your response - I could be not understanding fully.

You have Graves Disease and treated with Synthroid? That's unheard of unless you had RAI or surgical removal of the gland to put you at a hypothyroidism condition - then treatment would be replacement thyroid medication like Synthroid.

Taking Synthroid as treatment for hyperthyroidism/GD would only worsen your condition.

You say you have now been given Methimazole - which should have been the script all along for the treatment of GD.

dmac- has your doctor discussed beta blockers until you stabilize again?






  


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[gimel]

Just to update my last post, my doc had me wear a Holter monitor for 24 hours, to diagnose the "flutters".  Even though I clearly felt this happening 4 times during the night, nothing abnormal showed up on the monitor.  The doc concluded it was not heart related, so not to worry.  In order to get my free T# to the upper part of its range and still keep T4 and TSH within range, the doc changed my med. to Armour thyroid three days ago.  I'll try to keep you updated with anything new.    

[TeenaCee]

I am 44 years old and I have been diagnosed with Graves Diseas also.  I also have the fluttering at night and when I settle down to watch TV or something.  Synthyroid did not work for me at any dosage, the synthryoid made my eyes worst and theyu starting bulging. I am now taking Methimazole 10mg and I beleive it is working.  I have only been on it about a month.  But the fluttering has slowed down.  And boy am I glad.  I go to a Specialist at the UNC clinic in North Carolina.  ***@****
TeenaC

[gimel]

I can relate.  I have been on a full daily replacement amount of 200 mcg of synthroid  for many years.  My TSH was less than .05, and I felt great.  After experiencing some "flutter", I went to doc and they checked EKG and also a nuclear injection stress test on a tread mill.  All came out as very good.  I did some searching on the web and found a reference that said that with hypo t patients who took enough thyroid med. to suppress the TSH  to my level, for over 10 years, about 9 % developed some sort of "flutter" or atrial fibrillation.  On my own I decided to cut way back on synthroid, to see if that solved the problem.  For whatever reason it got worse, even showing up during the day.  While on vacation I ended up going to hosp. to get checked out.  They also found no problem, but recommended that I should not have cut back so drastically on synthroid, so I went back to about 90 % of original and have been better each day since.  Not gone completely, so plan to go see my regular doc as soon as possible and it sounds like you need to do the same.   Recommend that the doc especially check free T3.  I suspect that in my case my body was not converting T4 to T3 very well, and to get the result I needed, I was taking too much synthroid, resulting in too much T4, but not enough T3.  I am looking to get my doc to supplement my synthroid (T4) with Cytomel (T3).  Hope this helps.  

[MissMic]

Yes, I get them as well. Although I have not been diagnosed with a thyroid disorder I plan on being tested. I am also in my mid 40's...and wonder if this is a symptom of pending menopause?