Hello,

this is my first posting here and I hope I can find some help and encouragement here.

To cut a long story short: my hashimoto's was diagnosed only last August while I have a goiter since my youth and massive typical thyroid problems since my early adulthood (I'm 44 now). I have found a doctor who is a thyroid specialist (after all those "specialists" here, including a radiologist and a cardiologist who both see no connection between thyroid, mood, the heart etc.) but he is so far away I can only talk by phone. My doctor at home only wants to put me on beta blockers and thyreostatics.

Got another blood work taken today, results will arrive tomorrow (I know what my doc will tell me again, take those beta blockers etc.). I went to my doc because my thyroid is very active for some weeks now, it feels sore, I ma tired as hell, I hear my heart beat constantly and today my pulse rate was about 100. I feel a bit better now but as an anxiety person (don't ask, nobody ever checked my hormones or thyroid but put me on antidepressants for 10 years where had enough time to teach my body and brain to react with fear to almost anything, big or small - I'm a msater of anxiety even though I did make progress with meditation and mindfulness, but I still need a lot of practice) I was so hyper the last few days, fearing a heart attack, having to leave my kids, dying....the whole drama.

I'm on a paleo diet for a few weeks now (I do drink a little milk and sometimes rice or potatoes, so not strictly paleo, or not paleo at all), too early to say anything but I am willing to go on. I just don't know how to handle those hyper periods, My new doc says that after my ferritin is high enough again things will be better anyway and that I shouldn't take any hormones by now. I'm not sure what to do and even though I don't have those periods all the time I'm really disturbed about my "loud" heartbeat. Sometimes I have palpitations as well, only for one beat, more if I get my menstruation. Maybe it is also my glands, I just don't know. Always had too much cortisol.

Any ideas how to proceed?

Thank you,
mare