Re: Re: Help! Armour & T4 - Hashi's & Caffeine

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Caffeine seems to help my brain fog. I use it medicinally. In the morning, I have a cup of green tea or I can't think straight. In the afternoon I sip on one, maybe two cups of tea. It does help me think. I probably do need to go to all green tea though as it has less caffeine. I am heading in that direction (slowly) because I am a caffeine addict.

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Pam, Yep I can be hyper at night, drink a coke and sleep like a baby!!! I thought it was just my weirdness - Glad to know I'm not alone!!hahah Wish that I liked coffee but Coke is my addiction! LOL Cheers, Tee Pamr40 wrote: Wow!! I thought it was just me! I can have trouble sleeping, drink a cup of coffee and am asleep within minutes.Tee wrote: Jan can you point me in the right direction to learn more about how caffeine affects us Hashi folks?? I never knew that it would affect me...I have noticed that if I get really shaky and agitated I can drink a coke and be fine for hours...maybe I'm just weird - I

usually react 180 degrees different from "the norm"...Just curious about the caffeine connection.Thanks! Tee> Hello,> > I am a Hashi's patient and my levels have been stabilized for a year > or so. However, at my last doctor's appt., my doctor thought my t3 > was too high in proportion to my t4 so added a small dose of levoxyl > to my

armour. That didn't seem to effect the way I felt and I have > been taking this combo for 6mos now. In Jan, my blood levels were:> > Free T4 - 1.01> Free T3 - 2.6> TSH - .5> > I'm not exactly sure when it started, but I began waking up at night > with a racing heartbeat and thinking I was having anxiety attacks. > I also started noticing the feeling of a "racing" heartbeat during > the day and sometimes at night. This progressed to a feeling of a > shortness of breath. While I was pushing the cart at the grocery > store, I started to feel light-headed and out-of-breath and felt my > heart racing. I just happened to be in front of blood pressure > machine so I stopped and took my blood pressure. The BP was great, > but my pulse was 140 just from walking around. I called my > cardiologist and the nurse said that she thought

it was probably > thyroid related. I was/am afraid to go back to my doctor that > prescribes my thyroid meds because I feel like she's just itching to > get me off of Armour and will use any excuse to do so. I only have > it now because I pleaded with her. I felt horrible years ago on > synthroid and only felt human again with armour. I made an > appointment with an internist I used to see years ago accross town > who has no qualms with using Armour and I will be seeing him today, > but he goes strictly by the numbers and doesn't treat symptoms > alone. I haven't had any thyroid meds since Thursday (almost a > week) and have been feeling much better with no racing pulse. > However, my heartrate is still really high, fluctuating btw 90 and > 130bpm just through normal activities.> > I'm going to see the doctor today regardless, but I'm wondering if

> anyone recognizes these symptoms and what can be done to correct > it. If this doctor wants to keep my tsh higher than I can function > with, I may need to just stay with the other doctor and tweak the > prescriptions she gives me. I just don't know what to do. I > thought this was all under control and that I wouldn't have deal > with again - wrong!! Such is the nature of Hashi's, I guess. I > would appreciate any helpful info or comments as I will be seeing > the other doctor this afternoon.> > Take Care,> Katy> > ---------------------------------> Yahoo! Mail> Use Photomail to share photos without annoying attachments.> Relax. Yahoo! Mail virus scanning helps detect nasty viruses!

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I'm slowly beginning to realize that a lot of my "weirdness" might be linked to my thyroid. Hopefully through all of my brain fog I can make enough sense of it to get some results at my drs appt next week. Who would have thought all of these crazy ways my body is acting are somehow related!Tee wrote: Pam, Yep I can be hyper at night, drink a coke and sleep like a baby!!! I thought it was just my weirdness - Glad to know I'm not alone!!hahah Wish that I liked coffee but Coke is my addiction! LOL Cheers, Tee Pamr40 wrote: Wow!! I thought it was just me! I can have trouble sleeping, drink a cup of coffee and am

asleep within minutes.Tee wrote: Jan can you point me in the right direction to learn more about how caffeine affects us Hashi folks?? I never knew that it would affect me...I have noticed that if I get really shaky and agitated I can drink a coke and be fine for hours...maybe I'm just weird - I usually react 180 degrees different from "the norm"...Just curious about the caffeine connection.Thanks! Tee> Hello,> > I am a Hashi's patient and my levels have been stabilized for a year > or so. However, at my last doctor's appt., my doctor thought my t3 > was too high in proportion to my t4 so added a small dose of levoxyl > to my armour. That didn't seem to effect the way I felt and I have > been taking this combo for 6mos now. In Jan, my blood levels were:> > Free T4 - 1.01> Free T3 - 2.6> TSH - .5> > I'm not exactly sure when it started, but I began waking up at night > with a racing heartbeat and thinking I was having anxiety attacks. > I also started noticing the feeling of a "racing" heartbeat during > the day and sometimes at night. This

progressed to a feeling of a > shortness of breath. While I was pushing the cart at the grocery > store, I started to feel light-headed and out-of-breath and felt my > heart racing. I just happened to be in front of blood pressure > machine so I stopped and took my blood pressure. The BP was great, > but my pulse was 140 just from walking around. I called my > cardiologist and the nurse said that she thought it was probably > thyroid related. I was/am afraid to go back to my doctor that > prescribes my thyroid meds because I feel like she's just itching to > get me off of Armour and will use any excuse to do so. I only have > it now because I pleaded with her. I felt horrible years ago on > synthroid and only felt human again with armour. I made an > appointment with an internist I used to see years ago accross town > who has no qualms with

using Armour and I will be seeing him today, > but he goes strictly by the numbers and doesn't treat symptoms > alone. I haven't had any thyroid meds since Thursday (almost a > week) and have been feeling much better with no racing pulse. > However, my heartrate is still really high, fluctuating btw 90 and > 130bpm just through normal activities.> > I'm going to see the doctor today regardless, but I'm wondering if > anyone recognizes these symptoms and what can be done to correct > it. If this doctor wants to keep my tsh higher than I can function > with, I may need to just stay with the other doctor and tweak the > prescriptions she gives me. I just don't know what to do. I > thought this was all under control and that I wouldn't have deal > with again - wrong!! Such is the nature of Hashi's, I guess. I > would appreciate any helpful info or

comments as I will be seeing > the other doctor this afternoon.> > Take Care,> Katy> > ---------------------------------> Yahoo! Mail> Use Photomail to share photos without annoying attachments.> Relax. Yahoo! Mail virus scanning helps detect nasty viruses! ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤¤ø,¸¸,ø¤¤ Don't Take Life Seriously. It's Not Permanent! Blessings & Joy, The Tee in

Texas! ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤¤ø,¸¸,ø¤¤

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