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• My mom has been having ongoing and increasing medical issues over the last year. She is a 52 yr old active athletic woman who has had no serious medical issues until the past year. Her symptoms began with heart issues during her sleep including waking up in the middle of the night heart racing, pounding out of her chest, often times couldn't breath and occasionally light headedness and passing out. This has been ongoing over the last year in addition to the following which have begun to emerge (in chronological order): - Exhaustion (during the day also sleeps a lot more hours 10-12, not normal for her) - EXTREMELY variating and high thyroid count (been on thyroid medicine for over 2 years now) - Nausea & diarrhea - Occasional muscle issues (such as clumsy or drops a glass uncontrollably) - Achy joints (some days so bad she can move around easily) - Pounding heart in the middle of the night The most recent symptom is her joints popping out of her socket. She reaches to grab something and her elbow will pop lose, etc. In addition: They have found one small lump in her lungs and one in her cervix (fiberous and the size of a peach pit) She has seen a general doctor, heart specialist, thyroid doctor and many other specialists. She has had ever test in the book and then some. None of the doctors can tell her whats going on. Does anyone have any educated insight into what could possibly be going on?????

• Answer:

  Perhaps she is receiving too high of dose of Thyroid Hormone Replacement (such as Synthroid) rendering her HypERthyroid. Sounds that way to me! You said high THYROID count rather than high TSH number (the later would mean HypO which would be inconsistent w/ her symptoms). Copy this for her: TSH ‘norm’ should be .3 – 3 (w/ most feeling best at < 2) but, for diagnosis, may not mean much if ANTIBODIES are present which is indicative of Hashimoto’s Autoimmune Thyroiditis (cycles between HYPER & HYPO at start)…it is the main cause of eventual HypOthyroidism but worse (...OR Graves Disease - HypERthyroid). WARNING: Doctors seem not to want to find/treat thyroid disease. You may have to go to more than one doctor before you get the right tests, interpretation, and treatment. Best wishes. Ck these: http://thyroid.about.com/bio/Mary-Shomon-350.htm http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/ http://www.thyrophoenix.com/index.html http://thyroid.about.com/cs/newsinfo/l/blguidelines.htm ALWAYS GET COPIES OF YOUR LABS. God bless you