Back from the ER again/Details about Hertoghe/New FT3 labs from last night!

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I hope this message gets posted, I feel SO alone, and SO helpless and confused now! I am worried about stopping my rT3-T3-only treatment soon! Plus a whole lot more!Last night at 10 pm, my heart started beating very hard, slowly, and irregularly. For 30+ seconds. VERY MUCH, I'd say EXACTLY what happened back in December 2009 when I was on ERFA Thyroid for 1 week. (That time I thought it happened due to rT3 blocking T3, and I don't have that problem now!) So, I immediately called "911" cause my heart kept beating hard, slow and very irregularly, and they came in 20 minutes with an ambulance and did an ECG. It showed what I already know; Right blocking of the signals, and some kind of faulty wiring. They told me to drive to the ER (they didn't think I was an emergency patient!), so my father took me there.I must say that yesterday was my first day

on DHEA 35 mg and Florinef 0.10 mg. I took them at once, together, with HC, in my first chews of my breakfast. There was no liner notes to these meds, just meds made in a compounding pharmace in Belgium. I just trusted Hertoghe, so I took the meds. I have NO IDEA if it was these meds that made the irregular heartbeat happen. Do you think that's plausible or not? I mean, can adding ALDOSTERONE make the heart beat like that? Also, I forgot to tell Hertoghe that my Aldosterone improved after drinking sea salted water for some months. I think he pretty much gave me aldosterone due to clinical symptoms. He also did a total urine test of the aldosterone. It was mid-range, but I told him I was drinking sea salt while doing the urine collection. So I guess I needed aldosterone meds then.Important:DUE TO MY TRIP TO BELGIUM, I  GOT APPROX 50% OF MY NORMAL DOSES OF SEA SALTED WATER IN THE PAST 4 DAYS - AND YESTERDAY, I WAS AFRAID OF DRINKING SEA

SALTED WATER BECAUSE I STARTED FLORINEF. It was alread too late when told me to drink sea salted water like I've always done - The arrhythmia happened.So, once  got to the ER, I talked to a doctor, and I was transferred to the main reception of the ER, and they did electrolytes, cortisol (I know, I know!), thyroid panel, liver, kidney, and heart markers. Everything was ok, except one thing - But no doctors told me anything. I saw it myself on the printout:Sodium: 136 (range: 137-145)Bare in mind, this was AFTER drinking at least 1/2 tea spoon of sea salted water 1-2 hours before I did the blood sample.Can I have experienced a bad case of Arrhythmia due to TOO LOW SODIUM, only?My brand new thyroid panel shows:FT3 6.8 (after taking about 55 mcg T3 that day.. I didn't know I was gonna take this test!)FT4: 4.4 (still, same as last week!)TSH 0.31 (up from

0.09 last week!)I did spend the night at the hospital, with telemetry. They found nothing seriously wrong with my heart that night. I slept from 6 am to 9 am this morning. Needless to say, I feel like a complete zombie today.I told many doctors, heart specialists, and even an endo (I got 1 minute with him - he had "no time" for me! What a moron...) and none of them really understood WHY I was given Florined, nor DHEA. They also didn't understand why I was on T3-only, nor thyroid medications at all. Even HC. I don't have Hypothyroidism, nor Adrenal Fatigue according to them. Oh well.So, they let me go. Without doing any "real checks". I feel horrible, horrible, horrible, sleepy, pressure in my head, my resting pulse is lower now than it was 2-3 days ago when I was in Belgium. My reduced salt intake during the trip COULD'VE lead to a higher resting pulse. As well as my infection. As for the infection, it seems like 8 days on

Penicillin didn't really help with everything. I have lower whites in my blood now, but I still feel horrible in my head/sinuses/stuck nose/sleepy all the time/lower hearing etc.I've had no luck getting in touch with Hertoghe in the past 2 days. He's super-duper busy. He's "too famous" I guess! I mean, he's great and all.. But I wish he had fewer patients!As for my T3-only treatment, Hertoghe wants me to make the switch to ERFA Thyroid, dessicated thyroid. He wants me to have the "safety backup" of T4. I would like to have it. I just hope it works! Right now, still on 65 mcg T3, my FT3 looks good though. But I don't feel good.My total list of supps and meds to add looks like this:ERFA Thyroid (change after 1 month of doing the other stuff below!)Testogel 10% (2 pumps)35 mg compounded DHEA0.10 mg compounded aldosteroneBeatine HCL approx 500 mgPancreatic EnzymeMelatonine 0.2

mgVitamin ASWITCH to Ferrograd 500 iron. (Ferrous sulfate - Is this safe?)Increase to 5000 iu D3Start taking Zinc Citrate againStart taking Magnesium (Aminomag) again, any thoughts on this list? It looked like he was thinking hard (but without straining himself, he seemed VERY secure about himself and his work!) when he made this list for me. He went thru my blood/urine samples thoroughly. I did inform him I took T3, HC and ate food before drawing the 9 glasses of blood, and that I didn't stop salt, vitamin or mineral intake while doing the urine collection.I've been drinking a full dose of sea salted water today + 2 bottles of mineral water and salted my food. Better get more salt, than less.Now, as for my full blood electrolytes. They look VERY weird. I'll try to do a scan of them soon. Sodium is VERY low. Potassium is VERY high. The doc in the private clinic I ordered this test thru,

even called me today and told me I could take this test again, for free (that test is actually $200 USD, cause it's not analyses in Norway, but in Germany!) - Next week! He said the results look VERY strange and he's hoping for a lab error. What if my tissue sodium really IS very low and tissue potassium is VERY high? :-(What do you think guys? Am I ready for the grave or is there any hope?Without this group, I would have noone to turn to. Thanks for being here for everybody!