palpitations and rapid heart beat with hypothyroid?

[hcurrie]

hi, my tsh is low normal and my t4 is very low at .54 - i have been getting sudden onsets of a rapid heart beat and lots of palpitations - i am not hashis or graves, endo is still trying to figure out why i am hypo at all..... i am on synthroid 50mcg. these symptoms are not any worse than before i started the medicine so thats not it...i am wondering if anyone else has had these rapid heart rates and palpitations with hypo? also i get really crabby all of a sudden when i get this,  my heart checks out fine at the cardiologist and endo says hypo dont cause heart palps ...

[melodiesunset]

Hi, I am new to this blog and I have been reading your stories.  I am 54 and was diagnoised with Hypo 3 years ago, I am on Levoxyl 75 and I haven't felt good in 3 years.  Now I am told after 3 weeks of feeling like I am dying all over again that I have low sodium and am acutally water toxic. Have any of your experienced the low sodium with your hypo thyroid.  I am desparate for answers and my doctor has the compassion of a dead fish.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Lost

[Mariem1979]

Your actually not wrong I think u need to see another doctor, I'm 32 as well and I've had the same feeling for yrs I've only now started to get treatment cauz I persisted, I'm mariem1979 you can read my post it's all on there  hope it helps

[Mariem1979]

Hi everyone I'm a new comer, I've just been reading all your stories and can't believe how much of you have a racing heart with having a thyroid condition, I do too, I do believe they r both connected don't care what doctors say, my husbands family are all doctors as well, a few months ago I made an app with the endo and it was 3 months waiting so I thought while I wait to c the doctor il go c a naturopath, he did all my bloods and said they r not that bad but to some people r a lot more sensitive to others and he gave me all these things for an overactive thyroid, one month later the kicked in, I felt fantastic I started exercising doing Pilates walking everyday and walking my kids in the pram not feeling anxious anymore , my time came to c the endo and she said I had to get off all the herbal things and in 2 wks I went bak to panic attacks and the works so the endo put me on neo mercazole and it hasn't done anything, I went to emergency the other day thinking I was dying, they did my bloods and my tsh came bak 0.11 a lot worse, I won't leave the house because I'm scared incase it happens, I have another endo app tmrw and a house doctor came over today to give me Valium to get to the doctors tmrw, can't believe how bad it's gotten, I hope u all get better Its the worst feelings in the world.

[goolarra]

Please, start your own new thread as per instructions in my post immediately above yours.  This thread is old and long and takes forever to load.  You'll get more attention to your own concerns with a new thread.  Just copy and paste your above post into a new thread.

[caveatemptor1]

have been reading this thread with interest.  I am a 59 1/2 year old woman who recently had a Bx of a  1.9 cm thyroid nodule.  They commented that on path report that they would have liked more follicular cells and also recommended serologic workup for Hashimoto's.  I have recently gained ten pounds without altering my diet, am bone tired, palpitations, have always had very low BP (still do)  profuse sweating and joint pain, irritability and puffy eyes, which is not normal for me..   I am awaiting results of thyroid anitbodies, adrenal function and iodine level.  I am a vegetarian, and will be having my TSH and free T4 as well as B12 (i do oral supplement) drawn on Monday, since the endocrinologist did not repeat the test that was done in Nov., in which my TSH was 1.90  (range 0.40-4.50) and free T4 was 1.1 (ref. range 0.8 - 1.8) I eat no salt (except salted almonds) and very little bread) My PC doc ordered the repeat thyroid tests after I just went to her last week because I'm getting nowhere so far with the endo.  I do like him very much, but so far, do not think that my symptoms are being taken seriously.
Also, and please correct me if I am wrong, but isn't Hashimoto's (if that's what I have) a SYMPTOM of something else being wrong, and not a primary condition????
To complicate matters, right after I had the TSH and free T4 levels done that I mentioned, I began immunotherapy for allergic asthma to cat dander and dust mites.  (we have two elderly cats, 19 and 13 and I'm not about to get rid of them)  I have already had a systemic reaction to the shots and the doctor will more than likely titrate the serum to lessen the strength.   If I had sublclincal Hashimoto's, and then began immunotherapy, does anyone think that that might have exacerbated the condition since it is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the thyroid, and the shots would obviously stimulate the immune system?  I am feeling very unwell and so far, have really gotten no definitive answers and/or treatment from the endo that I am seeing.  He wants me to come back in six months to do another ultrasound on the nodule (1.9 cm) and I can't imagine having to feel this unwell for another half a year.  I am also under a great deal of stress as I take care of my mother, who lives across town and my father died two years ago after suffering horrificly for seven years after an upper right pulmonary lobectomy for what was supposed to be cancer, but was not.  
Please give me any guidance that you can.  

[goolarra]

This is a very long, old thread.  It might be a good idea to start a new thread so that members can address your individual concerns.  Just go to the top of the page and hit the orange "Post a Question" button.  

Please tell us a little more about yourself...post labs and ranges if you have them, list meds and dosage, tell us your symptoms. Perhaps we can give you some helpful insight.