Douglas Ek
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Hi!
My sister has been diagnosed with autoimmune hypothyroidism. Shes currently om synthetic T4 to lower her tsh. It has gone down from being 30+ to 8 now. The doctors upped her dose from 25, 50 and now 75 but the last bit if TSH doesnt want to come down. She has now started experiencing severe overdose symptoms as rapid heart beats, tremors, nausea, pain in chest etc. She had to go to the emergency yesterday and I feel so bad for her since shes quite scared. T3 is in normal range. Im thinking shes having a bit of problem converting the T4 to T3 thus not lowering TSH as effective? At the emergency the only things elevated was T4 was 24 and blood glucos was over the reference range. Obviously the high glucose comes from elevated cortisol and adrenaline from the overdosing and stress the T4 puts on her body. Anyone been in a similair situation and had success?
My sister has been diagnosed with autoimmune hypothyroidism. Shes currently om synthetic T4 to lower her tsh. It has gone down from being 30+ to 8 now. The doctors upped her dose from 25, 50 and now 75 but the last bit if TSH doesnt want to come down. She has now started experiencing severe overdose symptoms as rapid heart beats, tremors, nausea, pain in chest etc. She had to go to the emergency yesterday and I feel so bad for her since shes quite scared. T3 is in normal range. Im thinking shes having a bit of problem converting the T4 to T3 thus not lowering TSH as effective? At the emergency the only things elevated was T4 was 24 and blood glucos was over the reference range. Obviously the high glucose comes from elevated cortisol and adrenaline from the overdosing and stress the T4 puts on her body. Anyone been in a similair situation and had success?