Insomnia - sleep problems

[Jo_Stafford]

Hello, does anyone else have sleeping problems since being diagnosed with an under-active thyroid?   I have to take drowsy anti-histamine to try and get some sleep in the night.   My sleeping did get better when I took 20mg T3 in a morning and 50 mg T4 (levo) at night but I felt like death the next day and never woke up properly.  

Many thanks

Jo

[Smilerdeb]

Prolonged use of anti-histamines can actually aggravate the thyroid and should be avoided unless really neccesary.
I'd be asking for your meds to be re-evaluated again.
20mg T3 is a high dose.
I wouldve thought 5mg T3 to 50mg T4 would be sufficient.
T3 can keep you awake and can also make you hyper if it is too large a dose.
Question as to why he has you on 20mg T3.

[Jo_Stafford]

I've tried all the alternative sleeping solutions possible and nothing works that's why I have resorted to drowsy anti-histamines.   My GP wanted me to take Amitriptyline but I am reluctant to go on an antidpressent as I get horrible side effects (was on it for 4 years and the dry, swollen mouth never subsided).   I now know it is my thyroid meds that control my sleep as I did sleep when I was on 20mg T3 but I looked awful in a morning with huge dark circles and had to survive on coffee all morning to try and do my work.   I am wondering whether I was prescribled too high a dose of T3 as I have read some people can only tolerate 5mg T3 and I was on 20mg!    I think when I start sleeping properly is when my body will be regulated on my thryoid meds and goodness knows when that will be.  

[Smilerdeb]

try some Lavendar Oil on your pillowslip....works wonders.
Or put a wheat pack with lavendar on it under your head where you sleep.