Thyroid/Anxiety - unsure which
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About 4 weeks ago i started to feel light headed and had a few back twinges nothing major which I thought was the start of a water infection. Anyway a few days after that I had a 'panic attack' just before I was going to bed, I went to the doctors and explained what had happened who then put me on medication for 'anxiety' straight away with out any check up really - I'd been back and fourth to the doctors, walk in center and A&E with chest pains, heart palpitations and not feeling 100%, I was advised by one doctor to stop taking medication as I felt better without, a week went by and I was fine on the Saturday of that week I had a few alcoholic drinks with family and the next day I woke up with a hangover and apart from the hang over I had no other symptoms, that night my heart began racing and I was figetty but it soon passed. I was back at the doctors that week and explained all what had happened and he insisted I took medication for anxiety even though I told him i felt better without. I went away and didnt feel happy with what he said so I went to see another doctor a few days later and explained all to him again he put it all down to anxiety and the symptoms I felt but told me he'd give me an MOT (bloodtests) to put my mind at ease, as he was looking back through my previous blood tests in April my results for my thyroid came up as low but everything else came back ok apart from showing signs of PCOS and it said to re test my thyroid again in 3-6months which would of been october at the latest which i've only just been retested for now. Can your thyroid even itself out in 3-6months? I wouldnt of thought so if people have to be on medication longterm if they suffer from thyroid problems.
Alot of my symptoms come under both thyroid and anxiety - but i cant help but worry it is something more serious, The anxiety has only started (in my opinion) since the first panic attack! I've also read that having psoriasis can play a part in thyroid problems and i've suffered from psoriasis from being a young child
I will only get the results from my blood tests on thursday/friday and im really worried ... and as much as I try not to I cant help but to google my symptoms which makes it even worse.
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rachel03291 laurajayne439
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yes the doctor gave me sertraline but I havnt taken it . Iv changed doctors but still get no where with it all they look at me as if im makin it all up I have had pains in my neck where the thyroid is I also found little lumps on my thyroid they dont check it il just keep goin bk till they listen I hope you feel better soon good luck x
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vivienne73186 laurajayne439
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I thought I was reading about myself about three years ago. This is exactly what happened to me and I was also referred for CTB for health anxiety! (I also suffered from psoriasis). Visits to A&E with panic attacks and chest pains etc. etc. basically feeling terrible but worrying too that something wose was going on.
To cut a long story short, all my previous tests came back ok, but it's only now three years later that I've discovered I had been suffering from Hypothyroidism. The reason for this is because they only tested for
TSH, had they looked at T3/T4 I would have been diagnosed sooner. Unfortunately your thyroid doesn't right itself and usually gets worse over time. After a year of being on levo. my levels are still not right. It can take months to get levels normal. I know exactly what you are going through and I only wish I had pushed harder to get more tests carried out. I don't know if this is of any use, but I think it's good to know that you are not going crazy. it sounds to me that you need to be on some treatment. Even a small dose as yyou shouldn't have to put up with symptons. In my non expert opinion I think if untreated it will untilmately lead to more complicated stuff. (it did for me).
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laurajayne439 vivienne73186
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vivienne73186 laurajayne439
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In this country GP's only usually do TSH (Thyroid Secretion Hormone). But you should also have T4 & T3. Your TSH can read normal i.e but your T4 which is the amount of thyroxine you are making, can be out of range. This is precisely what happened to me. No one mentioned the other ranges, (there's actually more but don't want to confuse the issue). My recent tests show my TSH as normal but because I requested T4/T3 my T4 is now above the range. So in a year I've gone from boarderline under' to just over'.
I too was constantly checking myself, assessing my symptons etc, it's no wonder because this is what an abnormal thyroid function does to you.
Really, we should be able to see and Endocrinologist, but it's very hard to get a referal. I'm certainly going to try and push for one. You defo need to find out where your T4 is at.
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I understand how ur feeling iv been like u for 5 months with anxiety my boyfriend has left his job to be with me I cant be on my own if he goes the shop I start havin hot sweats and thinking things are going to happen to me I started having a feeling that my heart had stopped very horrible feeling but I used to be out all the time on my own n clubbing with friends now I go no where unless I really have to but my bloods are in normal range and I still feel like this I was like this yrs ago then it just went away just like tha its strange and it will go away
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I also get chest pain been to hospital few times with it but ecg is always fine but I no u do get chest pain when u feel anxious it is probably ur thyroid makiing u feel like that hope it gets better for u
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