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Originally Posted by Crivera1127
Hi Linden,
The last 3 1/2 years have been a mess for me. Back in 2007,my primary Dr. diagnosed me w/borderline hypothyroidism. My bloodwork comes out normal, but I have characteristics/issues (weight gain, leg cramps, cold feet & hands, hair falling out, low basal temp in the morning, brain fog, etc.) that would diagnose me w/hypothroidism. Over the course of 3 years I was taken cytomel and synthroid. In addition, my Dr. placed me on phentremin to kick start my metabolism. The phentremin was only a temp. thing. After about a year w/ still having difficulty in maintaining my weight, I went to see a specialist who took a holistic approach. Through trial and error, my diagnosis came back with either metabolic syndrome or hypothroidism(they both have similar characteristics). Again my blood work would come back normal but I was still showing charactertistics of Hypothyroidism. This Dr. decided to increase the cyotmel and synthroid and then added the phentremin to the mix. I honestly think it was the combination of drugs that I was placed on. Between the everyday stresses from work, my rollercoaster ride on RX, I started to have anxiety/panic attacks. One night I had a horrible eposide of Heart palipations. This lead me to see a Cardiologist. When I went to the cardiologist and he looked at my history of blood work, he felt that I did not have hypothyroidism and weened me off the pills. He performed an echo and put me through a stress test. All upon which came back normal. He felt that a lot of issues w/weight and stuff had to deal with stress. He recommended to me the South Beach Diet and finding a new job. Since Feb. I have been off of all the meds and have been only taking vitamin and fish oil pills. However, I can not seem to get passed that eposide I had w/ the heart palipations.
One of my family members is a Chiropractor and I went to him for an unrelated issue. We started talking about everything that I have been through and the challenges of losing weight. He recommended that I try this. With the exception of last night, I have been feeling pretty good on the program. I am actually starting to feel better. I noticed an increase in energy and I don't have that brain fog I normally experience.
To showgirlaz - Maybe last night was just a panic attack brought upon the fact that I had insomnia on Friday night.
I'm brand new to this forum and I had the same symptoms as you. I even went to the Emergency Room and was there for 6 hours. They sent me home, told me to rest and contact my doctor. My doctor thought it was my blood pressure so he told me to take an additional blood pressure pill. He also gave me a RX for Ativan (sp) for anxiety. He just passed it off that way. I did take 1/2 of the Ativan but did not double up on my blood pressure meds, My BP was within the normal range for the most part, it was my pulse that was racing (like I was on "speed" or something). Since I am also taking meds for hypothyroid, I became suspicious that it was all in my thyroid. While I had an endocrinologist, I have lost confidence in her. I called the only "thyroidologist" in my state (who happens to practice in my city), and was able to get an appointment on that very day due to a cancellation. (Lucky me!). This new doctor validated my suspicions, told me that she never wanted me to take one of the meds again, and to discontinue all thyroid meds for a week. She also put me on the alternate plan of this diet because she said that the amount of medication that people take for hypothyroidism is based on their weight. I NEVER was told that before and I wonder if the past 2 endocrinologists that I went to even knew that. Lower your weight; lower the dosage. Made sense to me. She put me on the alternate plan. I am having great success and more importantly, I'm feeling so much better! Today is day 5 and I've lost 5.5 pounds so far. I will start taking one of my thyroid medication tomorrow.
