I have a question for thyroid people in the know please. Can thyroid medicine just stop working or maybe having the opposite effect. I'm now up to 50mcg and I feel crazy again. My heart races, bad hot flashes, face flushes, my hair is falling out enough to make a curly haired wig, my sex drive is back down, and now my blood pressure is on the rise.
Too much and too little thyroid hormone can often have overlapping/shared effects. Based on your heart racing, bad hot flashes, face flusing, and increased BP, I'm going to go with the thought that you have too much thyroid hormone.
Too little OR too much can cause hair loss, changes in sex drive. It's possible that being hypo could cause increased BP, but most often it goes the other way. With too little hormone you get bradycardia (slow heartbeat) which can often help BP levels. But having too little thyroid hormone also stresses the body so it could increase it.
If I were a betting woman, I'd go with too much hormone.
Tina--you're in the rotten position of still having your own (malfunctioning) thyroid gland that, on most days probably isn't working well enough for you but then periodically it might start working. When you are dealing with both a thyroid gland and supplementation, you get these problems. Many of us here have totally dead thyroid glands or none at all, so the supplementation process isn't quite the rollercoaster ride that people with funky thyroids get.
You probably need to get a quick thyroid panel done just to see where you are. Many, many years ago when I was first dealing with this, my biggest clue of too much thyroid hormone was my flushed face (and ears). It was awful. If the room even got the slightest bit warm, I had a face like a fire engine. Bumping down a dose helped immensely.
I have made an apt with my PCM because the reproductive endo and I have parted ways. I'm moving in less than 8 weeks and know that can cause stress but I just feel like something is wrong.
Sorry to hear you no longer have the reproductive endo--that sounded so promising.
Get thee to a doc and have that TSH done. You'll feel much better when you get this under control.