Posted by Phillipa on April 8, 2005, at 17:35:00
In reply to Re: Anyone - For both Maxime and Spriggy » Maxime, posted by TamaraJ on April 8, 2005, at 15:54:50
Yup, all my problems started with an elevated TSH. I forget what the initial was but it wasn't that high. I had at first what appeared to be some sort of flu with a tightness in my chest that made it almost impossible to expand my chest to cough. I had to force myself to go through the pain to cough. This was accompanied by feeling so tired and lethargic I could not move. I lay on the couch for two days. Then came the anxiety. It put me in a state of panic. So the pdoc upped my xanax. I then went to an internist who checked my thyroid. He started me on .025mcg of synthroid, and said in about a week I'd feel better. I either would need more or less of the xanax. Well I was working as an RN and continued to work. I rember after about 6 days I was at work and all of a sudden it felt like my world opened up and I felt l00% better. I was able to cut down on the xanax little by little. About 2 months later I woke during the night with vertigo for the first time in my life. I had to go to the emergency room where they administered 2mg IM of ativan and sent me home with antivert. I didn't come out of it. I remained so tired but so nervous. The pdoc put me on lopressor 25mg to help lower my anxiety so he could put me on paxil. After 3 weeks he put me on l0mg of paxil with the lopressor. It took about 3 months for me to feel better. I returned to work. I was more than Great for about 2yrs. I stopped lopressor, and gradually weaned off the paxil. A lot of stress in my life and my anxiety again went off the charts. I was hospitalized. My TSH was 22. They tested me and I had Hashimotos Thyroiditis. They increased my synthroid to 0.l25mcg where I remain today. I felt better in a few days even though my anxiety increased so I had to take more ativan then. My TSH has gone from being around 8 which didn't bother my old pdoc down to the very lowest levels of normal now. He said he wanted to keep it low to ward off depression. In the time period above, I've been dx'd with lymes's disease[in remission], osteoporosis, and gone through menopause. So many changes to my endocrine system. So after this very wordy post, yes you can be both depressed and anxious at the same time, and yes I also lost a lot of wt, and yes I had sweats but they were the beginning of menopause. Fondly, Phillipa
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