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Post-partum thyroiditis with hyperthyroidism

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jasminegenie
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Posted 12/30/2011 1:54 PM (GMT -6)
I am so fed up with hyper thyroid cry ..i started feeling pvcs back in June ..then got the extreme anxiety and panic attacks,wanted to just crawl out of my body and feel normal. I went to ERs at least 4 times a week and they would just say I had post partum baby blues and anxiety. My son is almost one now and I have 3 other children,very hard to be a mom feeling this way. So anyways I finally had my reg dr run thyroid counts,I was low.29 so was referred to a endocrine dr who put me on tapazole and over the past three months by tsh jumped up to 1.46 well I've been extremely dizzy so I asked my dr if I could go off tapazole and see if I drop..he thinks I have post partum thyroiditis. So went off of it Dec 8 th and had blood checked on the 28th I dropped shakehead from 1.46 to .45 in two weeks...i feel crappy again shaky tremors heart Palos dizzy so bad!! I'm scared I just want to feel normal again and my dr is on vacation till next Tuesday so I started the tapazole again .

I just gave your post a title.

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Posted 12/30/2011 9:43 PM (GMT -6)
Yeah that sux when the doctor goes on vacation and need someone to talk to about your symptoms, the hyperthyroid will go away after tsh levels goes to zero. The endrocanoligist gave me some propranolol to help with my rapid heart rate. I have thyroiditis as well and now my tsh levels are 4.70 in hypothyroid ranges. Will update my post when I see the endro next month.
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cfs
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Posted 1/13/2012 6:58 AM (GMT -6)
I developed full blown hyperthyroidism when I was post partum and successfully had it treated with tapazole.
When you're being monitored you need to have a complete thyroid panel. Trust me on this: ask your dr to get you hard copies of all your labs so you can understand how you're doing. It's not so complicated.
When hyper TSH usually starts out undetectable. It can stay that way for a while. It's why a good dr will not medicate based on TSH alone but the actual hormone leves.
One last thing: Anti thyroid drugs such as tapazole are usually started at a high dose, then reduced. Ideally, after the first reduction or so, which may be more dramatic, your dr will want to decrease the dose in very gradual increments.

One other last thing ( ;-P) : When you go off Tap you have to do it very gradually.
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