Guest guest Posted February 4, 2011 Report Share Posted February 4, 2011 Hi all, reading several posts about trouble sleeping, I though I'd share my recent experience. I had been on 6xNA and 2grains of Erfa since November. Looking back now I realise I was slowly becoming hypo, to the point that by christmas I really couldn't have bothered with anyone and anything - just sitting in a chair all day. Then I started to have trouble sleeping (despite using melatonin). I couldn't switch off, and became really anxious as I've been there before, and ended up in a psych unit (on two occasions). It got to the point where I could only get three hours sleep at a time, and was having awful nightmares, about incidents from up to 40 years ago. I'd wake extremely distressed, sweaty and feeling spaced out.Sometimes I felt I was woken by a surge of adrenaline, causing me to feel incredibly anxious and physically shaky. Usually I sleep very well, and for long periods without waking. I wasn't sure if I was hypo or going hyper, but I was heading for a major depressive episode. I recognised the symptoms, saw my GP to ask for help (she told me to wait until I visited the ME clinic in 7 days time!). I asked to get my TSH and T4 checked. Hey presto! TSH 7 and T4 8 (12-22). Straight away I upped my Erfa, and within days, the anxiety attacks, nightmares and adrenaline rushes stopped, my normal sleep pattern restored. I'm not 100% yet, still brain foggy more than usual, searching for words etc (took me ages to remember what melatonin is called!), but definitely not on the path to the dark side - Hurrah! Yesterday I googled T3 and nightmares (in scholarly articles), and T3 and PTSD (which is what I believe the nightmares were about), and some pretty interesting information came up - in particular about T3 being useful for PTSD. I'm sorry, I don't know how to do links, but a very little searching should reveal the info. Maybe this is well known information regarding hypot., however, I'd not come across it before, and I thought it may be helpful to others. Another bonus for me is that the young female GP I saw, who clearly undrstood little about hypothyroidism or treating with NT, has since offered to try and get it prescibed for me! Here's hoping it's approved! A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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