Feeling ill and a pulse of 120 - too much thyroid excreted by the gland?

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Hi All,

I have been feeling ill for about 5 days now. I have got a cough, sore throat,

sneezing and a bunged up ear. I was worried about getting a lung infection - as

I had a bad infection about three years ago.

I just wanted to get my lungs listened to by a doctor. I won't go into the

horrors that are MEDOC but I did get to see a doctor.

I told him how I was feeling and that my temp was high - 37.2 - and my pulse

fast - 120.

Anyway, long story short, he said that when we are ill the thyroid pumps out

more hormones and because I am taking T3 I am getting too much - that is why my

pulse is fast. He did not know much about the NDT and dismissed it as a

contributory factor.

I take 1 grain NDT and 40mg T3. I have a conversion problem so I would have

thought that it was not that I was getting too much T3 but too much T4.

As the thyroid gland produces T4 I would have thought it was the extra T4 in the

NDT that was the problem - not the T3 - as it may have been pooling in the

blood.

I did not tell him that I was taking HC. I think that Dr P said in his book that

extra HC would be beneficial if someone is ill. Would taking more HC have

lowered my pulse rate?

Can anyone verify that the thyroid gland pumps out more hormones when we are

ill.

B