Newest labs and PVC's

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in 2006 i was diag. w/ PVC's - take beta blocker. PVCS been completely (few

exceptions) in control since then UNTIL

June 2010 when my gyn lowered my estrogen from an .,075 estradiol patch to a

..050 progesterone patch.... and things began to go to hell. this was

further exacerbated by trying to find a drug that worked for my thyroid

becuase the " OLD " armour was in a state of flux and then simply not

available. tried natruethroid, tried gouing back to synthroid, tried 3

compounds (base in olive oil, base in powder (talc?) base in acidophilous) .

I got worse and worse and my Free T4 was consistently below normal and my

Free T3 was just barely over normal .

the progesterone phase of my HRT since that time has been unbearable w/heart

banging around, high anxiety from it, tears, hysteria - almost nervous

breakdown conditions with all these factors contributing - and I am

convinced that even thou the armour fiasco was a major contributor - the

lower dose of estrgoen got almost IMMEDIATE negative impact going in my

body.

About 4 months ago I switched to new armour and slowly began to feeling

better in some ways - less fatigue - less severe " always cold " problems,

happier etc. etc.,

little by little the PVC's have become much worse over the last year but

this past month (newly prescribed Zocor) I was quite ill with them. Had ekg

yesterday which confirms frequent PVC's - skipping and extra beats. Its a

nightmare. Doc says to stop all caffeine and it will get better. I don't

think so. My whole life I have been a coffee drinker - at least 3 cups a

day sometimes more. I put it in a travel cup and drink - cold = throughout

the day. I eat chocolate every day - so why suddenly the severe

PVC's?????? I have an order for a doppler study ro rule out mitral

valve prolapse (but doc doesn't think its that - just being safe). In

april of last year was admitted to hospital as emergency for complete

cardiac workup (turned out to be severe GI distress -hernia) and given lots

of tests - on treadmill test achieved 86% percentile of my age group -62

with no PVC's etc. - ruled to have a sound healthy heart with no evidence of

heart disease.

Soooooooooooo my gut tells me that either my estrogen or thyroid meds are

causing me trouble or the Zocor (which i found out last night can cause

rapid or irregular heartbeats???!??!??!!!!!!!!) are helping me to me

miserable. I am MOST miserable during the 12 days of progesterone on the

HRT.

Here are my blood results of 1-26-2011 on l l/2 grain of new armour . Meds

were taken 5-l/2 hours before blood work.

Any thoughts here most appreciated .

Ferritin 62 range 20-288

Free T4 .9 .8 to l.8

TSH 3rd Generation

.46 .40 to 4.50

Free T3 3.7 2.3 to 4.2

My metabolic panel was all completely normal - everything pretty much mid

range w/only exception of Globulin, Calculated score of 2.7 with norms of

2.2 to 3.9 and Bilirubin ttl score of 0.5 with norms of .02 to l.2.

Your help appreciated folks - P.S> I am post meno - 62 yrs, hypo Non

Hashi's, last saliva adrenal was okay -, use HRT, take l l/2gr Armour a

day, take l fluid pill 12 l/2 mg a day, 2.5 mg Norvasc daily and 50 mg

Tenormin a day for BP and PVCS. HAD high BP , but in the last 3 months of

so pressure been very low - sometimes as low as 89 over 60. Heart rate

very slow - generally around 57 to 62.

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Duffy