Ongoing rollercoaster of symptoms???

January 24, 2010

Hello all,

Am new this site as I only started looking into the possibility that my problems

may stem from a RT3 problem. Basically I was diagnosed a year ago with sub

clinical hypothyroid and adrenal fatigue and was subsequently put on NTH and

HC....well as much as I have made some gains on this, I still find that I take 3

steps forward and 2 steps back.

I feel like I honestly wake up each day and wonder 'what day is it going to be

today?'..a day where I feel like my heart is racing (even though I feel calm

otherwise) or a day where I wake up with really tense neck muscles and a

horrible pressure headache at the base of my head....or a day where I wake up

feeling panicky for no reason....or a day where I just have 'anxious

thoughts'....like I have done something horrible or would do something

horrible....or a day where I feel I feel spacey and dizzy. Okkkkkkk, so you get

my point!!!!!

I can have a couple of days where I feel pretty good and I get excited that I

have finally turned a corner...and then one of the above listed days will happen

(or with a mix of those symptoms) and I get disheartened. And what gets me is

that this is all while I have continued to increase and increase my NTH (up to

270mg at one stage) and increase my HC....so in the end I have now started to

decrease both my NTH and HC....

Had bloods taken last week and these were the results...

FT3 - 5.8 pmol/L (2.6 - 6.0)

RT3 - 454 pmol/L (140 - 540)

Ferritin - 24 ug/L (15 - 200)

Sodium - 138 mmol/L (135 - 145)

potassium - 3.8 mmol/L (3.5 - 5.5)

cholesterol - 3.0 mmol/L (3.9 - 5.5)

Triglycerides - 0.5 mmol/L (0.5 - 1.7)

DHEA - 7.4 umol/L (2.0 - 11.0)

I am on an iron supplement..oh and DHEA.

Any thoughts on what is going on and what I need to do would be most

appreciated. Promise any further posts will be short!!!!

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