HealthisWealth
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tara said:post 116930In the Philipines - so I guess you can get sunshine. :)tara said:post 116676 If you are not able to get regular daily sunlight on your skin (best)
HealthisWealth said:post 116858 Hi i tested again in a another laboratory. I was prescribed T4 (50mcg) Is this enough or i need to increase?
I still cannot sleep. More than 72 hours now. When i lie down i feel body tremors and feels my heartbeat. Im thinking of taking diazepam.
T4 has a long half-life. It can take 2-4 weeks at a steady dose to reach a stable blood level. So you won't know if it is enough yet. If it already felt like enough it would probably mean your dose was too high. If it's working, you should get gradual improvements over the next few weeks. How much people need varies, but this is enough that it could well make a difference if it is going to help. Reassess in 3-4 weeks.
Apparently one can be more sensitive to adrenaline for a while when thyroid hormones increase. This should settle down in a few weeks too, from what I've read.
Your body temps and resting pulse rate give valuable information for assessing how your metabolism is going. You can measure this every day and watch to see if they increase.
If you want the T4 to work for you, I recommend assessing your diet to check that you are getting adequate nutrition. If you are deficient in protein, carbs, paricular minerals or vitamins, or overall calories, then supplementing thyroid can cause unnecessary stress, or else just be countered by the body. How much magnesium are you getting?
Also worth avoiding the most goitrogenic (anti-thyroid) foods - esp PUFAs, but also raw cabbage, soy.
Do you want to spell out what and how much you are eating?
If you can hold out and not take the diazepam for now, I'd recommend it - it will just complicate the picture for you and make it harder to figure out what is going on and what you need. There is a good chance the T4 supp will make a difference I'm not familiar with the drug myself, but I'd be concerned partly about setting yourself up for withdrawal issues.
Since you have T4 and no T3 in your supplement, it my be worth you looking up the particular things that help with converting the less active T4 to the more active T3 that your cells need. I don't remember them all, but adequate glucose is one of them. Long endurance exercise tends to reduce it.
How's your breathing? Relaxed, nasal, diaphragmatic? If not, these can be retrained. This may not be you, but sometimes unaware hyperventilation can go with a hard heart beat. I had a patch a while ago waking up with a strong heartbeat in the night. I think among the things that helped were learning to keep my mouth shut at night, and increasing carbs and minerals. It hasn't happened for a while now.
Thank you tara i reallly appreciate the help.
My problem right now is im not anymore functioning. Literally i cannot sleep. I just stay in the house waiting to sleep. I should be sleeping right now but when i lie down i feel my chest is racing but i have normal hearteat, shaking and my head something is moving inside.
My breathing is not relaxed. Its come from the mouth like im tired dog that cannot sleep.
Right now im eating less because of this stress and i cannot sleep. I eat rice beef twice a day. I need to bring back the ice cream. But i need to sleep first.
By the way i went to an endocrinologist today and the doctor want to repeat the TSH test because its conflicting.
Hospital Emergency room
Dec 24 TSH.
1.803 (0.350 - 4.940)CMIA method
Non-Hospital Laboratory
Dec 27 Ultrasensitive HTSH
6.57 (0.270 - 4.20 miu/L) ECLIA
The endocrinologist want me to test TSH using RIA or IRMA method. Is this a good test or i stick with ECLIA. I dont know why the dec 24 test i have normal tsh but in a different laboratory my tsh is high.
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