I take atenolol 50 mg once a day...My endo dr said if my family dr wouldnt have put me on this..I probably wouldnt be here.
I have so many palpitations and arrythmia with my hyper. Im glad I am on it...
Ive had all these symtpoms for about two years ..I told my family dr years ago I was hyper..but she took me off my medicine because my tsh was fine...this is why she put me on atenolol ..she couldnt figure out why I had heart palpitations..but havent been tested for tsh since 2006.. In Late August she tested again and came back overactive...
I hope that made sense
Boy can I relate...drs. think all in your head too..I feel the weird sensation in my neck and am light headed all the time..plus the sweating and nervous feeling..I understand!!!!
I have never taken Atenolol.
I looked it up and one of the possible side effects is depression. It's hard to say if it is agravating your depression, but it is possible. You know how it is with side effects. Most medications list about twenty and you get to pick a few and wonder if it's the medicine doing it or not.
I've been taking Toprol XL for two years to control tachacardia. I am just now weening off of it. Today is supposed to be my last day to take half a pill.
I'm a little nervous about stopping it because my heart has been bothering me lately. I may keep taking half a pill a few more weeks.
I get the impression that even though they are both beta blockers, Atenolol and Toprol are not exactly the same drug. There may be a specific reason you are taking Atenolol rather than some other Beta Blocker.
Discuss your concern with the doctor and see if another drug would be worth trying.
And don't feel like a hypochondriac. This disease can make a person feel like one. You're not imagining this stuff. If you have to see the doctor frequently to address one issue after another, or the same one repeatedly, that's the way it goes.
As for anti-depressants, they often do not play well with thyroid disease and SSRIs are not recommended. That's why we are taking Xanax. It doesn't help with depression, but you have less anxiety while you sit around and contemplate horrible things.
You have to be totally aware that until your thyroid situation get under control - chemically you mind is altered.
I found research to be my best peace when I was Graves and then severly hashi - hypothyroid.
The swings in hormones totally wrecked my whole way of thinking.
Tough as it may have been - with the unbelievable brain fog I had - not comprehending a darn thing I read over and over thing that - after a while made sense to me.
I couldn't put "me" in this problem - I had to look at it as a malfunction of something in my body that was causing all this.
That does help- I also was on Xanax (huge amounts) for over 2 years. Did I become dependant - Yep - but after I started getting better - I did ween and now I only take it once in a great while.
I'm taking Xanax now, and it does seem to help, but I'm afraid I'll get dependant on it.
AR, while on this subject, did you ever take Atenolol during your "crisis" period? I was given endurol the first time around and was taken off of it after I'd been on the Tapazol for a while. I don't know why she prescribed Atenolol this time---after the "relapse." Any way--I could swear I am moodier since I've been on it. The depressions are deeper, even though they seem to be shorter. I was hospitalized two weeks after I'd been taking it--and I also seem to have more--and worse--anxiety attacks.
I've been sent to shrinks and therapists...and they mostly push more drugs at me. The thryoid drugs are bumping into each other as it is... and some of those antidepressants really screwed me up bad. Some folks claim Paxil saved their lives, somehow, and that it's great, but I started continuously day-dreaming of suicide about a week after I was on it, even though I was told it took 3-6 weeks to get into my system. The list of other drugs I've been on and off is pretty long. Most anti-depressant/anxiety drugs are on the list.
Yes.
Not all of the symptoms, but many, with others as well.
I understand what you are going through.
At one point I begged my GP to refer me to a psychiatrist. He did, but then I canceled.
Xanax or Alprazolam until it gets better.
Maybe a therapist, but it was a waste of my money.
It sounds lame but funny movies or a walk in the yard helps. Reading or something to occupy your mind. Comedy.
Get tested for a vitamin D deficiency.
Correcting that helped me a lot.