Hi everyone,

I just had a TT on June 22.  I had benign nodules on my thyroid which was irradiated 11 years ago 
while being treated for Hodgkin's Disease.  I had about 7 doctors who all thought that after 
watching the nodules for 2.5 years that the whole thyroid should go.

Since the surgery my hormone levels have been dropping and I've been trying to titrate onto 
Synthroid with great difficulty.  My heart has been pounding nonstop and my pulse is very fast 
(100-120).  I haven't slept much in a few nights because of this which makes becoming hypo even 
more difficult and disturbing.

My endocrinologist wants to wait to raise my synthroid levels until she can get a holter monitor 
done, an EKG and test other things such as testing my adrenals; however, I am starting to feel 
more and more exhausted, achey, stiff and brain dead as time goes on.  

I was diagnosed several years ago with orthostatic intolerance (heart rate would go up to 180 bpm 
on standing) but reconditioned myself to the point that I was functional most of the time with my 
pulse normal.  I am wondering if there is something wrong with my adrenals and that it is 
connected to the palpitations I now have and my history of orthostatic intolerance.

Has anyone out there had a similar experience with palpitations getting on synthroid?  Is this 
something that will go away as my body adjusts to the medication?  is it more likely to be my 
adrenals or could there be another problem?  Do you think I could step up my medication at this 
point so that I don't continue to become more and more hypo or would my palpitations get worse?

This is all so new and sudden for me.  I am supposed to start and new and highly demanding job 
in less than 2 months and am concerned that things aren't going to get better by then.  All the 
doctors reassured me that I would have plenty of time to straighten this out before I had to start 
work, but I am quite unsure.

Sincerely,

Suzanne




_______________________________________________________________

   Control Your Self-Serve Thyroid Account
Rules - mailto:[log in to unmask]
Subscribe - http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?SUBED1=thyroid&A=1
Unsubscribe - mailto:[log in to unmask]
Our Home Page - http://www.Emissary.Net/thyroid/index.html
Thyroid Archives - http://LISTSERV.ICORS.ORG/archives/thyroid.html
_______________________________________________________________