Gone some time, thyroid levels wierd

[LazyMoose]

Hello all. This is strange. Hypo FT4 and TSH, FT3 mid range. On dessicated ERFA still.

Feel hyper anxiety, not tired, I sleep pretty good. But I'm hypo per labs. I should feel real tired.

Ft3 is 3.5  [2.0 - 4.4]
ft4 is   .66  [.82 - 1.77]
tsh is 9.2   [.450 - 4.5]

Now this lab is somewhat messed up because I skipped thy med for one day three days before the test, because I felt hyper.  I then proceeded to go back to my normal dose.

T4 should not go down that fast from skipping one day,just three days before blood draw. TSH should not drop that fast either. So if my thought are correct, I have been hypo for many days enough for the test to show it. But I feel hyper, not hypo.

And my adrenals are probabley a little messed up too. And the BIG and- I am have been treating lyme disease [antibiotics] for 1 year (thats not uncommon) which can mess up everything in the body.

Of couse the endo is going to just up the erfa thyroid with out thinking about anything I just laid out here, because they think like robots. And then throw in lyme and he will stare at me (just my guess).

****So my fellow thyroidians, what are your thoughts on my thyroid levels with opposite symptoms.*** I dont recal seeing this here in the past. I should be sleepy, not tough.

I did not get a reverse T3 test.

My brains to tired to think about this anymore. I,ve had Hashimoto antibodies for at least 15 years.

Having been used to giving help, once again like in the beginning I'm now asking.

thanks,

merry x mas and all that stuff too.

[LazyMoose]

Hello Gimel

The anxiety is from morning till about noon. I get jittery then too- hands arms ect.. I have nervous energy 10 min after when I get out of bed. Way too much energy its puzzling. More muscle tightness.

As the early evening approaches, I feel less anxious., become calm but not tired, but get more headaches. I have been having very healthy sleeping patterns with REM, its improved. I sleep best while on antibiotics.

Bowls are fine.

I had to lower thy med last year. I am on doxycycine and one called flagle. They both have a long list of side effects.

When I was hypo years before I was also tired.

Maybe I am tired "inside" but the antibiotics are making me feel jittery as a cover up effect. The toxic load from dead lyme bacteria can do weird things too. Detoxing is a big deal, and difficult to know if its working.

I think I should try a rt3 test maybe.

So I agree there is a lot going on. Problem is the endo will not get any of this.

I guess if I up my thyroid and am to jittery to work, I'll just take a day off sick and go back to low levels where I am now.

[gimel]

Hi Moose,
My first thought was that the antibiotics would be the culprit.  I did some reading and came across this, which also points in that direction.  And it seemed that the longer the antibiotic was taken, the greater the possibility of affecting you.   The anxiety you mention can be a hypo symptom.  Did you have other symptoms that you thought were hyper?


"The antibiotic ciprofloxacin (CIPRO) was associated with reduced levothyroxine effect in case reports, but more information is needed to establish whether the interaction occurs. Until more information is available, it would be prudent to separate doses of ciprofloxacin from those of levothyroxine by at least four hours. The same precaution should apply to other antibiotics in the same class, such as levofloxacin (LEVAQUIN), lomefloxacin (MAXAQUIN), monifloxacin (AVELOX), norfloxacin (NOROX-IN), and ofloxacin (FLOXIN)."

[LazyMoose]

The ft3 is pretty close to my "sweet spot" in the range, just a little lower.

Respectively, my FT4 and TSH should not have dropped like that. That is the change.