Thyroid med/Adrenal help!??

April 25, 2010

Hey Duncan and everybody else,

Three days ago on Thursday night when laying in bed to sleep, some heart

palpitations started. I had one. and then after a couple of minutes

another, finally I had between 5 to 10 palpitations in a time frame of

an hour or two. Also, my heart rate was between 90-100 beats per minute

when I was in bed. I was a runner in high school and my resting heart

rate is below 60. Anyways, I thought of 2 things that might contribute

to this problem.

The first one is that maybe I am taking too

much thyroid medication. On dec. 2009 (4 1/2 months ago) I was put on

50 mcg synthroid because my thryroid was low. Then a couple of weeks

later I was put on 10 mcg of T3-liothyronine because I was not

converting enough of T4 to T3.

The second thing I thought is

maybe I am taking too much prednisone or my adrenals are weak. I have

been on and off prednisone for the past 2 years because of my diagnosis

of Ulcerative colitis-IBD. Last month I had a flare and started taking

high doses again. I am now at 15 mg and tapering down 5 mg every week.

Well,

these heart palpitations (feels like your heart kinda stops for a

second or skips a beat) started a month ago. I had 3 one night and it

went away. Then a couple of weeks later I had one during a meeting like

at 9 pm. So, this past Thursday night/Friday morning I decided to go to

the ER because I had between 5-10 palpitations more than I had ever.

they checked my heart, it was good and I am still waiting for TSH

results. It would not matter so much because they also have to check

RT4 and RT3 which they did not.

Well, that friday morning I

decide to stop taking my 10 mcg of t3-liothyronine medication, but

still took the 50 mcg of synthroid. I think is better to be a little

hypo for a while than your thyroid going to hyper for too much

medication. Anyways, today my throat kinda feels a tiny bit sore for

not being on the medication for 3 days now. How do I know if these

kinda fast heart beats and heart palpitations are due to my thyroid or

adrenals? What should I do? I have been eating 4 tbs -6 tbs-of coconut

oil everyday. Thanks.

-JJD

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