Val: This pounding heart has to go

February 12, 2010

My heart has been pounding and chest feeling tight since I started Isocort/HC 3

months ago. This happens even if I'm just sitting reading a book. My temps

were stable on 15 mg HC with 12 pellets Isocort and even then my heart was

pounding. I tried using just cream to see if it was something in the Isocort

causing the pounding but it didn't make a difference.

I'm up to 25 mg HC now in a combination of cream and Isocort as recommended by

Diane at NTHAdrenals when it seemed like my temps were goofy but I don't think

they actually were, I think I was just goofy since you (Val) said they were

fine. I'm taking 1 1/2 gr of compounded thyroid but I'm pretty sure I really

need just Cytomel. Doc doesn't want to switch until his lab tests come back. I

don't know why he won't just use the ones I had done before I started Armour

since the Armour/Erfa wouldn't have cleared out the RT3 at all.

My doc said I likely don't need as much HC as I'm taking. According to him my

cortisol levels were not bad and it sounded like he wouldn't have treated them

at all. They were:

Morning 6.4 (range 3.7-9.5)

Noon 1.4 (range 1.2-3.0)

Evening 0.8 (range 0.6-1.9)

Night 0.6 (range 0.4-1.0)

I asked about weaning off and he said to just leave it for now. I didn't

mention the heart pounding/tightness.

People here and at NTHAdrenals have said the pounding could be a hypot symptom

and that increasing thyroid would help. It hasn't. In fact, it might be

getting worse. It can't be good for my heart and it is driving me crazy.

I know that adrenals need to be well supported for T3 only meds but given the

pounding would it be worth it to do some decreases of the HC to see if that is

the problem?

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