Jamy, or others knowledgeable about anemia

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Hello Feisty(ThyroFeisty),

FT> still), my pulse/heartbeat was irregular.I was not having

FT> palpitations, but I was skipping beats.The last three days, I have

FT> been on my cycle, with heavy flow  first day.Does this sound like

FT> related to my anemia/iron stores?

were you anaemic before you went into hospital?

make sure you keep your fluids up and avoid cigarette smoke so that

all your haemoglobin is functional

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I had a hg level of 8 in the hospital, got up to 8.8 by the time of discharge.I have since been taking 325mg of iron twice daily.

Today, when the nurse was taking my vitals(I have nursing still), my pulse/heartbeat was irregular.I was not having palpitations, but I was skipping beats.The last three days, I have been on my cycle, with heavy flow first day.Does this sound like related to my anemia/iron stores?

My bp was my normal------130/75.Temp was 97.4.I have not had the irregular beats since I have been home, and I do not know when I was in the hospital if I did.

It may also be time to increase my Armour from 1 grain(been on that 5 weeks)

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Feisty

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I'm surely with on this one----lots of water-----I'm thinking low blood volume, just a guess. If you lose your body salt easily, it could be that you're shedding intracellular fluid easily. You've got to have a normal blood volume for the heart to pump properly. I have a tendency to dehydrate myself, for unknown reasons (again, I think adrenals on this). The fact that your blood is thinner (however, you also don't want very heavy, thick, clotting blood in there either) from anemia certainly might have something to do with it. Are they going to do another blood draw for the anemia any time soon, ?

Jamy, or others knowledgeable about anemia

I had a hg level of 8 in the hospital, got up to 8.8 by the time of discharge.I have since been taking 325mg of iron twice daily.

Today, when the nurse was taking my vitals(I have nursing still), my pulse/heartbeat was irregular.I was not having palpitations, but I was skipping beats.The last three days, I have been on my cycle, with heavy flow first day.Does this sound like related to my anemia/iron stores?

My bp was my normal------130/75.Temp was 97.4.I have not had the irregular beats since I have been home, and I do not know when I was in the hospital if I did.

It may also be time to increase my Armour from 1 grain(been on that 5 weeks)

Hugs

Feisty

Webb Osterloh(ThyroFeisty or Feisty)http://thyroid_phoenix.tripod.comhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/The_Thyroid_Support_Group/

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I know that I've been very schiz about adding back, then removing the synthetic T4. I added it back for a week or two, then promptly removed it again, after starting the heavy respiratory symptoms again. I don't need that on top of the other, and yes, I know I need the adrenal testing because my allergies have gotten ridiculously exaggerated (it's something new all yr long--things I was never sensitive to). I'm just very paranoid about the allergies. The dosing is so different for everyone, I've noticed. I had problems increasing the Armour in even 30 mg increments, until I had been on the 60 mg dose for quite awhile, then the 90. I just think, in my case, the nutritional shortages (folic acid) were already hanging in the balance, and that that was one of the reasons why I had such trouble increasing, plus the fact that I've been on T4 dosing for such a long time, and my cells were "shutting the door", so to speak. Anytime someone has folic acid deficiency showing up on the blood counts, that means they've already had the shortage for a long time. The very last place it shows up is in the red blood cell counts. I don't think that's the only problem with me, but I'm still looking around. It's hard for me to say what someone else's dosage should be also. If I had started out on 60-120 mgs, my heart would have popped right out of my chest, even though I don't have a known heart problem. However, some of these people start out on 2 grains and pop it up the next week, and feel wonderful. That's what makes this disease sooo dangerous and difficult to treat, because it doesn't have a one-size-fits-all. I can't always say how, but I know that every one of these physical problems I'm having now are related to the length of time that I was undertreated AND to the very nature of Hashi's. Those nasty little antibodies do things that, as yet, may not have been discovered. I'm still not so sure about the lupus because in the literature on this one it says that a person can feel great one week, then mysteriously feel like they have severe flu the very next day, even for months on end. This is my pattern, and I'm thinking that I need a couple of the other antibodies tested. I've got a table full of them downloaded now. It gives a general idea of which antibody test probably suggests which autoimmune disease.

Re: Jamy, or others knowledgeable about anemia

Doctors who normally prescribe Armour are inclined to allow patients to increase their dosage by 15-30 mg per week or two up to a target dose of 90-180 mg, with testing before any further increases beyond that target dose. 120 mg is a very typical initial target dose.

180 mg is considered to be a full replacement dose for the "average person." It was our vet who explained to me that the "average person" is a 35 year old male who weighs 150 lbs and has no other health problems. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeek!!!!!!!! How many thyroid patients do you know who fit into that category?

What we actually need is highly individual, and often defies logic. My biochemist doc in Lubbock told me of a patient of his who insists on taking 200 mcg of $ynthroid twice a day, claims she only feels well on that. She is not a lady wrestler, but rather petite. He normally prescribes only Armour. . . . He is still scratching his head. . . .

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>180 mg is considered to be a full replacement dose >for the "average person." It was our vet who >explained to me that the "average person" is a 35 >year old male who weighs 150 lbs and has no other >health problems. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeek!!!!!!!! How many >thyroid patients do you know who fit into that >category?

Huhh!! The average person with thyroid disease (sorry guys) is a female!