hyperthyroid anxiety help

[valerie40]

I recently took radioiodine pill a month ago I am still getting terrible anxiety attacks and I cannot sleep some nights I am taking blood pressure pills and lorenzapan to help with the anxiety but, I am still getting the attacks do you have some suggestions for me to ease my anxiety and sleeplessness. How long will the anxiety will it last. I seen the Dr. and he told me that my thyroid level was still to high to start my hormone treatments I see him in six weeks to check it again is there anythihg I can do in the meantime please help?

[stella5349]

Yes thank you. Xanax was also horrible to ween off  - for me.

Took many -- many months.....

[jena64]

Hi Valerie,  I know from experience that lorazepam can become addicting and one of the side effects is hair loss.  What mg's are you taking.  I would take it with caution.

I just started with the forum, so I have a question.  What does RAI stand for

[Dogdancing]

from date of RAI till my labs showed low enough was nearly 5 month. 5 months with no replacement med. So I hear you!!

They should have locked me up It got so bad I was literally psychotic.

And the kicker...my endo kept telling me..my crumbling mental status had nothing to do with the RAI or the fact I was not on a med.

What helped me was eliminate any unessasary stress in my life. Communicate with my work that I was I was experiencing nasty side effects so when I did things out of characture they knew what was going on.

Eat right and take a quality multi-vitamin and hang in there. They dont call it hypo-he// for nothing. Take advantage of the lorazepam and use it!!

[stella5349]

I'd like to see the labs your doctor is basing his thought on. Can you post them?

It seems that many RAI treated thyroid patients develop the insomina and anxiety. I found - in persoanl experience that it wiped out the magnesium level in me and I needed to supplement around 400mgs nightly to get over this hump. After RAI settles in me - which took 2 years - not weeks- and the thyroid was completely dead from it. I do not need to take any meds - except my thyroid meds now.

At my worst I was taking 8 .5 tablets of xanax daily with little relief. Why are you on Blood pressure meds? did you have high pressure prior to RAI - usually a beta blocker is given for heart palps until levels are in range.

Also a complex B vit can help regulate you.