Guest guest Posted June 18, 2010 Report Share Posted June 18, 2010 Elenor, Thanks for your report! I'm thinking there must be different types of this air hunger/breathless thing. Mine is ongoing....had an immediate onset one evening, went away for 3 days, then came back, and has stayed. At the time, I was on Isocort for adrenals, and taking 1/2 gr Naturethroid. Was treated for bronchitis....ha. Went in hospital for 3 days and they did all the usual heart and lung tests. Nothing. I feel sure it's hormonal...thyroid or adrenal, or both. I'm on week two of clearance, and so far I'm not losing the air hunger. It feels like you can't breathe deeply enough. Like your body is just too "downregulated" to perform all of it's "duties" that require energy, so it's limiting all of them. It's interesting. Some days when the brain fog is not bad and the muscle stiffness is not there, the breathing improves a little bit. Then goofball me will overdo it because I have been cooped up at home so much. Usually on the weekends, I try to push so I can do some things with my husband. Last weekend I did way too much, and this week, I have paid for it! Blessings to all who are on this nightmare journey! Subject: Air hunger reportTo: RT3_T3 Date: Friday, June 18, 2010, 2:05 PM Just thought I'd add my experience, just so it's in the mix.... I was beginning to think maybe I has something seriously wrong cardiac; I had no high pulse or anything, just seemed like the 'loss of breath' was maybe related to something seriously wrong... My pharmacist friend suggested I sounded like I had asthma. (I'd pant like crazy after climbing the small hill back from the mail box and then the front house stairs.) (I also attributed my breathlessness to the 30 pounds I put back on when I was on actual HC (back up to 300 pounds {sob})and have not been able to lose again... You know, "fat ladies have no breath" right? Except in the pool doing aerobics!? Try to reconcile THOSE two ideas!) I mentioned to my doc and said that I didn't see how it could be asthma since I do water aerobics twice a week -- at 10:30 a.m. -- and *never* had any problems with catching my breath. (Or could the humidity in the pool deck be allowing me to breath?) And I (now) notice that I never panted climbing the house stairs at times OTHER than when I had just climbed the hill. (I also thought: was I allergic to some pollen outside? Was it the Georgia heat and humidity that made me lose my breath?!)Now I realize: oh of course -- time of day makes a difference for adrenals, -- why didn't I think of it then!? Since I would always climb down to the mailbox at the same time in the evening (which was when I always noticed the air hunger -- didn't know the name, knew the feeling!), and water aerobics was at the same time in the morning... there was a *pattern* staring me in the face!Since I'd begun treating my adrenals (again!) a little more seriously, and switched to T3-only, no more air hunger! (Well, hardly any.) But I'm not 'cleared' yet (only week 4), and I'm not yet supporting my adrenals as much as I guess I should.But -- please look at your air hunger and see if it's time-linked. At the very least, you may find a time when you're less... hungry... and can handle doing some things you're putting off. Please look at the things you might be "passing it off as" -- like weight or lack of fitness or whatever, and see if you're missing a time-linked pattern!It may not help you feel better right away, but at least you'll have a better grasp of when and under what circumstances it happens. All info is useful...El Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 18, 2010 Report Share Posted June 18, 2010 Hi all, Dr. Lowe, somewhere on his site, talks about the three or four different modalities - ways - that hypothyroid can cause air hunger. So I can imagine that different people would experience a little differently. For me, when I finally cleared my RT3, and still didn't get relief from my air hunger, I finally caved in and got a lyme disease test (infection one gets from tick bite) from Igenex Labs, which came back positive. For me, most likely mine is from an infection that often accompanies lyme. And, I believe this may be what got me into this whole RT3 mess in the first place, or at least is what has prevented me from crawling out. Pam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 18, 2010 Report Share Posted June 18, 2010 Hi Pam, Do you have to have a Dr.'s order to do these tests? I have wondered about Lyme's disease for years and would like to test to confirm. Thanks, Cindy Subject: Re: Air hunger reportTo: RT3_T3 Date: Friday, June 18, 2010, 12:03 PM Hi all, Dr. Lowe, somewhere on his site, talks about the three or four different modalities - ways - that hypothyroid can cause air hunger. So I can imagine that different people would experience a little differently. For me, when I finally cleared my RT3, and still didn't get relief from my air hunger, I finally caved in and got a lyme disease test (infection one gets from tick bite) from Igenex Labs, which came back positive. For me, most likely mine is from an infection that often accompanies lyme. And, I believe this may be what got me into this whole RT3 mess in the first place, or at least is what has prevented me from crawling out. Pam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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