Some good advice

[haapuu]

Hei! I´m new here and I was reading your previous posts. It´s such a relief to notice that there are other people suffering from this.
I have hypothyroidism and lots of problems with female hormones, I get awful pms-symptoms. I don´t know if it is because of these, but I´ve been having some intrusive thoughts that make me feel anxious and depressed... When this happened for the first time my thyroid levels were high and I was given more medication. After that I felt better. Two weeks ago my doctor reduced my dosis and for two days now I´ve been feeling very anxious and I´ve had some panic attacks.
When I got the panic attack I thought I was going crazy and now that´s in my mind constantly, what if this means that I´m really going mad :(

[haapuu]

Now that I got rid of my previous intrusive thoughts I have a new fear: I heard about a friend of a friend that got some psicosis and really went crazy. Since I was having intrusive thoughts and I was feeling very depressed and having awful pms-symptoms, now I fear that what if those things mean that I will have some very serious psychiatric problems too, in other words, what if I´ll go completely crazy. Although a part of me says it doesn´t make any sense to be afraid of something like that, still I get really really scared :( I hate these thoughts and I´ve been trying to get some help and I´ve tried to do some self help exercises as well, but at times I get really scared....

[JGF25]

Good to get a second opinion because it sounds like the medication you were taking at the original dose was helping you and now it is not.

[haapuu]

Thank you for your reply. My TSH was very low but T4 was normal. According to the doctor it meant that now I was hyper but I consulted here the thyroid forum and a friend with thyroid problems and their opinion was that low tsh does not mean hyper if t4 is normal. So now I will get a second opinion. Though at times my head says I am fine but there are moments that this idea of going crazy comes to my mind. It does not help that I heard about a girl that I know that had some sort of psycosis and really had lost control. So I think that is what is making me so scared, the idea of "what if that happens to me too". Although I really don´t know much about this girl nor her past or medical history. But can´t help of worrying :(

[JGF25]

We all feel like we are going to get carted away to the loony bin when these things happen.  It seems to me that if you were fine at the thyroid med dosage you were on and when it was decreased you started to have problems, then you need to contact your doctor.  Why did he decrease it in the first place?