muscle weakness and HYPER????
sharonx9
has experienced this.
I have been on Levothyroxin since July 2007 for HYPO. I started on 75
mcg and was soon bumped up to 100 mcg in March 2008. My last tsh was
0.855 on July 10th. I have been on 100 mcg since them. Almost a week
ago I was in the store and my muscles started trembling like I had
worked out too much.
I have been feeling that way all this week. It's not all the time,
mostly after exertion or sometimes just walking.
I know that shaking can be a symptom of HYPER but is it this type of
shaking? It feels like it does when you carry something heavy for too
long or worked out way too much and your muscles feel all weird.
Sometimes my heart tends to pound. I do have PACs (premature atrial
contractions) so I thought it might be related to that also.
Back to the weakness, does this sound like HYPER? I am going to have my
dr recheck my levels tomorrow. Thanks!
Sharon
barba...@newsguy.com
wrote:
Hard to say. It sounds like me on vytorin. bad stuff.
barbara needham
amanita
The symptoms you're describing of muscle weakness and palpitations on
exertion, are what happen to me when my dose is too low. I'm guessing
your body has managed for a while on the 100mcg but is now crying out
for more. I will be interested to hear what your results are.
Gail
Could be low or high - or even that your thyroxin is close to useby
date, or lost it's potency by being stored badly.
Did you just pick up a new supply or are you getting to the end of
your last lot?
Have a think about whether anything might have changed?
Do you also do temperature tests?
Gail
Martin Barrett
Are you sleeping ok, feeling warm/hot?
When I get these shakes I also stop sleeping and feel strangely hot all
the time.
Alan B. Mac Farlane
shar...@gmail.com wrote on 10/30/08 6:51 PM:
> Almost a week
> ago I was in the store and my muscles started trembling like I had
> worked out too much.
yeah ... spasticity of the muscles.
comes from taking crank case oil for speed this thyroixine, a variant of any
of the 'ine' drugs or substances that fit into 'ine' receptors here and
about the body/mind.
as far as I can figure it out ... being on the thyroid replace therapy, the
hormone is not from human bodies ... it is a chemical here for my case
(synthyroid) ... and it gets into the muscles and the nervous system as
speed. as crank ... it cranks things up.
synthyroid overdose is not pretty ... hyperthyroid conditions even small
ones are not nice to live in ... which is what I have to do for thyroid
cancer oncology reasons.
What I do for fixing that problem ... as I have to live with it.
Is keep on working up the Relaxation Response.
Massage, streatching, ice, hot water bottles of heat ... to make supple the
body armor.
Work on eliciting the "Mac Farlane Response" out of the Golgi-Tendon
Apparatus ... use a hot water bottle over your loose blue jeans or sweats
while in a 'straddlers streatch' for about 2 hours as it will feel good
doing this ... until the last 2 minutes when it is letting go.
This will hurt like hell.
Which is why you have the tremblors, the spasticity ... the muscles are hard
on each other ... and they are trying to let go ... and they are having a
hard time doing so.
It is counter-intuitive, backwards, paradoxical ...however that is how
kenisology works ... how the streatch reflex works ... biofeedback, Physical
Therapists, MDs, other Sports Medicine people like coaches know about this
in the human anatomy and physiology.
So ...helping the letting go part ... is what I have found to work the best
for me.
This is a big reason why I scream and cry two hours every day ... just to
have a life where I eat food, clean cloths, do activities of daily living,
have the best life I can on a par with the disabilities I have to live with.
This being one of them.
sumbuddie hopes this helps.
:)
Alan B. Mac Farlane
sub-groups of thyroid patients.
A toss of the genetic dice, and synthyroid hyperdome makes for spasticity of
the muscles on the letting go side of the golgi-tendon apparatus is my
guess.
anyhow ... I have this big time with my hyper stuff.
Alan
in article 6n42qaF...@mid.individual.net, Martin Barrett at
martin....@itv.com wrote on 11/1/08 2:16 PM:
Gail
Shakiness was one of my pre-replacement symptoms - it seemed to happen
after I had done some sort of minor exercise there was no emotion I
could isolate attached to it, just feeling exhausted and maybe
disconnected.
When my levels are too high shakiness seems to happen associated with
feeling anxious, hot and flustered, and it is around a stressful
situation not associated with exercising. I feel wound up and want to
get away from whatever is stressing me.
Gail
Dee
"sharonx9" <shar...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:dce5d$490a64fa$4b5aa369$23...@ALLTEL.NET...
Hi Sharon, I've had/have the same symptoms you describe. My legs feel
really heavy, weak, and wobbly, at times. Yesterday, I was raking, and I
started to shake. Any amount of slight over-exertion (or stress) usually
causes that to happen to me. My heart rate has been in the 90s and 100s
since starting thyroid replacement in Jul 08. But, I have symptoms of both
hypo and hyper at the same time (which I hear is common with Hashimoto's
because of the attacks on the thyroid gland).
Also, I think it's been a sign that I'm not taking enough thyroid; or maybe
I am, but my body isn't delivering the thyroid to the cells properly. In my
case, I think the combination of low ferritin/possible adrenals problems
affects the utilization of the thyroid replacement, and causes the thyroid
to not get to the cells, so it pools in the blood, causing hyper symptoms.
I've been slowly getting my ferritin up; and as I have been doing that, I've
noticed I have periods where I'm doing better. So, you should get your
ferritin (and B12) checked out, if you haven't already done so - it should
be between 70 and 90, I believe. Also, you should check your Vit D level
(OH-25).
Alan B. Mac Farlane
4:52 AM:
> I've been slowly getting my ferritin up; and as I have been doing that, I've
> noticed I have periods where I'm doing better. So, you should get your
> ferritin (and B12) checked out, if you haven't already done so - it should
> be between 70 and 90, I believe. Also, you should check your Vit D level
> (OH-25).
for a woman ... this is most important I would think and it would be
helpfull (IMO of course).
As a dude (cool of course) ... I find that keeping my fish oil up helps
keeps things lubricated with those fat soluables vitamines.
I will ask my doc to scrip me a blood test and pull them. Metabolically I
can see what you are talking about ... however the releasing the muscles
from the tighen, working position ... so the muscle can be used again. Well
that shortens up it seems with the thyroid replacment therapy in this
subgroup of thyroid patients (is my current way of wrapping my mind around
it) and the releasing of that tonic muscle is what the kenisology would call
for in the Physical Therapy of it. IMO of course.
Use as many stick in the medicine pot to make progress ...
Good information ... well give it a go.
sumbuddie happy 2 day
:)
sharonx9
or tuesday. I did find out that Sept 19 2008 when they took blood for
some other stuff, they checked my TSH and it was 2.03 then. It was up
from 0.855 on July 29th so at that rate I think it's probably gone up
some more and I am needing an up on my Levo. Gosh, I sure hate this
feeling and hope it gets resolved soon. Thanks everyone for your help.
I'll have to post my new TSH and T3 level when I get then in a day or
so.
Oh, my doc did order a test to check my B12 also. So I'll let u know
that also. I used to take B12 but dumb me stopped it. I have
re-ordered some and will begin again as soon as I receive. I ordered
the methyl B12 as I read it was the best.
Sharon
Herman Family
"Dee" <d...@here.ca> wrote in message news:7ohPk.5660$%%2.1274@edtnps82...
Feeling weak upon exertion sounds suspiciously like hyponatremia, too little
sodium. Your sodium balance will change a bit from more sweating, exertion,
etc from when you were hypo.
Feeling shaky upon exertion, without feeling weak may be a sign of being
hyper. Watch out for shaky hands, especially when you are trying to use the
smaller muscles in the hand to pick things up. That is called "Shaky Hand"
Syndrome, as opposed to "Shaking Hand Syndrome" which is what politicians
seem to have. Shaky hand syndrome is a hyperthyroid symptom. Shaking hand
syndrom is generally self limiting and goes away after the election..
Michael