Where I live you have to get doctor’s permission to join gyms or participate in certain sporting events, etc., and an electrocardiogram is generally the first step.
In early 2019, two years before I was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s, I had such an evaluation done and had to get an extra heart work up because of V1-V3 t-wave inversions found. I was ok’d to do all activity and they were considered unusual but not harmful… but I always was puzzled, wondering why I had that irregularity.
Fast forward to four months ago when I learned through this forum and Ray Peat’s writing (leading me to a study) that V1-V3 t-wave inversions can be caused by untreated hypothyroidism.
I had a new exam done today to get permission to enter a competition next month and I was very keen to see if these t-wave inversions would have persisted after two plus years of being on NDT. In the prep room I told the nurse of my interest and she said something to the effect that the thyroid is so complex and she never really fully got it all while in school and never knew it could lead to these cardiac irregularities. Anyways, the test came out normal… t-wave inversions gone.
I wish the cardiologist in 2019 might have told me that those inversions could be related to a developing thyroid condition. Was he even aware? I wonder. It certainly would have helped me figure out the path I was on (already with mild symptoms) and might have gotten me into treatment sooner… and spared me a bunch suffering and lost time.
In early 2019, two years before I was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s, I had such an evaluation done and had to get an extra heart work up because of V1-V3 t-wave inversions found. I was ok’d to do all activity and they were considered unusual but not harmful… but I always was puzzled, wondering why I had that irregularity.
Fast forward to four months ago when I learned through this forum and Ray Peat’s writing (leading me to a study) that V1-V3 t-wave inversions can be caused by untreated hypothyroidism.
I had a new exam done today to get permission to enter a competition next month and I was very keen to see if these t-wave inversions would have persisted after two plus years of being on NDT. In the prep room I told the nurse of my interest and she said something to the effect that the thyroid is so complex and she never really fully got it all while in school and never knew it could lead to these cardiac irregularities. Anyways, the test came out normal… t-wave inversions gone.
I wish the cardiologist in 2019 might have told me that those inversions could be related to a developing thyroid condition. Was he even aware? I wonder. It certainly would have helped me figure out the path I was on (already with mild symptoms) and might have gotten me into treatment sooner… and spared me a bunch suffering and lost time.
