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Palpitations

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thelis

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At the moment I am wearing a 24 hr. heart monitor because of palpitations. However according to blood tests I had last week my thyroid blood test was abnormal. I am waiting now for a GP appointment. I shall be so glad to get rid of this monitor in the morning. It certainly restricts your movements and there are wires all over the place. Its in a box on a belt round my waist with wires leading up to the things they stick on your chest. What will happen to it during the night I have yet to experience.
Its going to be alot to take in having thyroid trouble as well as diabetes. Is anyone else on tablets for thyroid.
 
Hi Thelis, sorry to hear about this it sounds very uncomfortable - hope it gets results that can point to a good treatment to relieve your problems. We have lots of people here with thyroid problems, I think it is something that is relatively easy to treat - hopefully someone will be along to confirm that for me! 🙂

Hope you manage to get a good night, despite the wires!
 
Hello, yes I have had thyroid problems long before I became diabetic. Actually, once they sort out the dosage you just carry on as normal.

However, I also have an irregular heartbeat and that was detected after I had one of this flipping ecg things strapped to me for 3 days! Getting dressed, getting washed was almost funny but annoying at the same time. However, even though I thought nothing had happened during the monitoring period they detected this irregularity which is now being treated with beta blockers. Better to know and get it treated and be monitored!

Not sure you would have one of those to detect thyroid problems though. Blood tests normally give the readings for your thyroid function unless they are checking they are not assuming it is just thyroid?

Don't worry or get anxious, that will not help.
 
Yup - thyroid probs can defo cause 'heart things' - my BiL had some horrid heart/circulation things - but once they found out it was his thyroid and sorted that out, zilcho heart-related since. Was a matter of getting the medications sorted.

So try not to let it worry you too much because the palpitations should go away, if it's that causing it - but don't delay that GP visit.

How long will it be?
 
I've had palpitations for years. Apparently I have a Bundle Branch Block, which has been described as a slight electrical fault. No treatment, no problems living with it. Much better since I've lost 25% of my former self. Coincidence? Maybe. Hope yours is something equally trivial!
 
thelis said:
At the moment I am wearing a 24 hr. heart monitor because of palpitations. However according to blood tests I had last week my thyroid blood test was abnormal. I am waiting now for a GP appointment. I shall be so glad to get rid of this monitor in the morning. It certainly restricts your movements and there are wires all over the place. Its in a box on a belt round my waist with wires leading up to the things they stick on your chest. What will happen to it during the night I have yet to experience.
Its going to be alot to take in having thyroid trouble as well as diabetes. Is anyone else on tablets for thyroid.
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I have been on thyroxin for the past 7 years - it is just one small tablet to take once a day in the mornings. They will start you off at a low dose and then test again -and carry on increasing by small increments until they get the level right for you. It is then an annual blood test - not fasting or anything and casn be combined when you have your Hb test done
Didn't know til dx as type 2 that it was a common thing for the two to go together.
 
I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism 7 years before being diagnosed with Type 1. I also suffer from regular palpitations but have been told these are harmless. The good news is that the thyroid problem is easily treatable.
 
Thanks everyone for replying. My GP rang me today with my blood test results. He said that the score for TSH was 5 which was in the higher range and I should have another blood test in 3 months.
However, I have been looking it up on the net - the range was previously 0.6 to 6 but now has been changed to 0.3 to 3 but not all labs are using this new range. Does anyone know anymore about this?
 
err, it is 3.0 in USA but here it's always been higher. Mine had always been declared 'perfect' at 3.something, from 1972 onwards or whever they started testing it, so ours has certainly ALWAYS been over 3.0 since then anyway.

I heard a few years ago they were trying to increase the upper range to 11 so getting em to say 6 isn't bad according to that LOL

Anyway, mine fluctuates terribly. Amd told that's normal. No idea why though. Mine shot up to 8.x a couple of years back so they stuck me on tablets, it's been down at 3.x again ever since the tabs, then this March it was 5.79 and a fortnight ago it was 3.x again.
 
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