Hi to everyone who is reading !
I need help and I need it ASAP ! I started noticing that right before my period starts, I get blood pressure ups and crazy heart rate. It is continues to get worse every month. Lately I started ending up in the ER and I have been already put on diltiazem 180 mg. Last month have been so bad…I fell asleep and woke up with crazy heart rate. Ii got bad, I started to pass out and called ambulance. They brought me in the ER. In the ER they tried to bring the heart rate down. Then it went back up again and again. They used adenosine and instead of bringing the rate down it shoot it up. They used adenosine again. Somehow the rate went down, but kept going up and down and shooting up again and again. To me it felt inside as if there is something just keeps driving it up. I ended up in ICU for couple of days. So sore and week after this, barely alive and in a week my period starts again. By now I am very sure this is period related. Because it happens ALL the time Just THE Night Before my period. I had all the cardio work done, and everything is fine. The only thing I know I have is Hypothyroidism, but my TSH is around 8.2 and have been lower, with T free 3 and T free 4 in the normal range, so my doc is not treating me for that.
I don’t smoke, stopped drinking coffee and tea, chocolate 2 years ago, to avoid any stimulants. If anyone has any idea what can cause it, please respond. It is related to period 100 %, I am sure, but what is it ?! I am 34 and is it the early menopause showing up or what ? It is scary as I think I will face it again !
Yelena, I’ve reported your post for a forum change.
Moving to General Questions.
Perhaps you are having them because you are now expecting to have them or afraid of having them … and so you do. The mind is exceptionally powerful.
This is a good possibility. I used to have them for exactly that reason. Scary. All better now.
That TSH level is actually quite high. From here, 'Until 2002, the standard was that the normal range for TSH at most laboratories has fallen in the 0.5 to 5.0 range, with hyperthyroidism being below .5, and hypothyroidism above 5.0.
The guidelines, however, recommend that the range for acceptable thyroid function, and thyroid treatment, shift to a TSH of 0.3 to 3.0, which is a far narrower range. ’
I don’t know enough about the free T3 and T4 levels to suggest what might be going on if they’re normal and TSH is that out of whack. But if your TSH was lower, and is increasing, you’ve got a messed up thyroid.
TSH = Thyroid Stimulating Hormone. A high level is what your body dumps to try to rev up your thyroid to do what it needs to do (produce thyroid hormones). If your thyroid isn’t doing its job, other parts of the body (pituitary gland, I think) produce more TSH.
I would personally suggest you pursue this with your primary care doctor, your gynecologist, and an endocrinologist. It’s possible that the combination of thyroid oddness and normal menstrual fluctuations are acting together to give you a very rough time. Please make those calls soonest!!
Real-life medical questions are best in IMHO. Moved from General Questions.
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