advice needed

Anxiety tends to make you feel 'disassociated' sometimes, you feel insubstantial and not connected to your surroundings, less co-ordinated and weak. You don't need two sets of symptoms and, ultimately, thyroid conditions are totally treatable. You are probably anxious because you are having to wait for an answer. If your anxiety is affecting your life- get that treated too! If you actively make a step towards getting it treated, even that makes you less anxious and the treatment will take it the rest of the way.

Hi Samantha, the fact that your thyroid results came back slightly abnormal would suggest perhaps that this may be something to do with the dizziness. However feeling light headed and dizzy is also a symptom of anxiety too. You could be suffering from a double whammy - with the worry only making the symptoms worse. There's nothing you can do about the thyroid yet until you have been retested but when you feel lightheaded just try to accept it and say to yourself " this is just my thyroid or anxiety or both - I recognise this as a symptom of a problem I have but it's under control and being dealt with" - it often makes it less scarey when you are experiencing it. It's a very stressful time you are going through right now with finals etc and this isn't helping either but again try to acknowledge the part this is playing in your feelings and don't get panicked by them. I hope your test results throw up something concrete which is so much easier to deal with than our wild imaginings. Lots of people hate supermarkets too - especially if you are feeling anxious - the whole noise and brightnesss and wave upon wave of products can be truly overwhelming and you feel like you just want to get out. I've never abandoned a trolley yet but I've come close a couple of times! Hang on in there - it may sound like a platitude but you really are not alone.  

These things sure can be caused or exacerbated by anx.  Also I find when I'm anxious I eat and drink less- this is no small thing as it doesn't take much to send your blood sugar plummeting,  which can really make you dizzy and a bit more crabby than usual 

I think that thyroid malfunction can make you feel weaker so the medication they give you following the blood tests should help.  But try not to worry until you know the results.

Richard