thyroid meds make my ES worse

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This may not be applicable for anyone else on here, but I've discovered that

thyroid meds make my ES worse. I've been on Armour type meds for almost 4 years

-- at varying levels (and types)-- the more I'm on, the worse my ES gets. I had

gotten to the point where being under fluorescent lights would make me weak,

dizzy and somewhat disoriented in about 10 minutes -- so I really couldn't go

anywhere. The computer would bother me some and talking on cell phones was very

difficult -- I would end up weak, twitchy and exhausted after a 15 minute

conversation. Portable phones were not much better.

In May, I ended up in the hospital with tachycardia & arrythmia. The allopathic

docs took one look at my thyroid labs (mainly the fact that my tsh was .01 even

though my FT4 & FT3 were in the lower half of the range) and yanked me off

thyroid meds. Within a few weeks, my ES symptoms lessened dramatically. I'm

still not normal (because of muscle weakness problems) but I can handle

fluorescent lights, computers and cell phones fairly well.

Anybody else ever notice that connection? Any ideas why??

Thanks!! Amy