Beefcake
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Hello!
My sister was diagnosed with hashimotos. She has elevated TSH and elevated Thyroid antibodies. She had all symptoms of low thyroid. Doctor put her on levothyroxine and she started showing symptoms of hyperthyroidism. She’s been in and out of the ER a couple of times now for having a heart rate at 130 and feeling like shes gonna have a heart attack. Now the doctors have removed her T4. She was also on propanolol beta blocker to stop the racing heart. On the levothyroxine her T4 is above reference range. T3 is close to upper side. But her TSH is still high around 5-8 and sometimes 16. It was way higher before. So now when they stopped the T4 we want to try get her TSH down naturally. Any good advice on what to do? I think she mainly need to produce more thyroid naturally and also increase her conversion from T4 to T3. She also had elevated liver enzymes and low sodium.
Also seems to have a lot of adrenaline spikes probably high cortisol but that didnt show up on cortisol blood test.
My sister was diagnosed with hashimotos. She has elevated TSH and elevated Thyroid antibodies. She had all symptoms of low thyroid. Doctor put her on levothyroxine and she started showing symptoms of hyperthyroidism. She’s been in and out of the ER a couple of times now for having a heart rate at 130 and feeling like shes gonna have a heart attack. Now the doctors have removed her T4. She was also on propanolol beta blocker to stop the racing heart. On the levothyroxine her T4 is above reference range. T3 is close to upper side. But her TSH is still high around 5-8 and sometimes 16. It was way higher before. So now when they stopped the T4 we want to try get her TSH down naturally. Any good advice on what to do? I think she mainly need to produce more thyroid naturally and also increase her conversion from T4 to T3. She also had elevated liver enzymes and low sodium.
Also seems to have a lot of adrenaline spikes probably high cortisol but that didnt show up on cortisol blood test.