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Please any of my fellow PVC Warriors please help me feel better
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@jc76 About 3 yrs after ablation for aflutter/fib I starting experiencing a lot of PVCs/PACs in 2024. Over 20% ofbeats were PAC/PVCs my pcp and EP both echoed what you said ‘everyone has irregular beats no big deal’ but my burden was causing me symptoms like the mom in this thread, I referred to this condition as AFIB lite’
My EP did mention in passing to keep my TSH on the high side - I taken synthetic thyroid hormone due to removal of cancerous thyroid many years ago. After I adjusted levothyroxind dose to achieve higher TSH, the arrhythmia went away. Being skeptical of coincidence I changed back to old dosage TSH came down and arrhythmias returned. Lowered TSH again and I’m arrhythmia free. In reading on articles the link between arrhythmias and too much hormone (=low TSH, so called hyperthyroidism) is well established medical finding. I’m surprised after all these years learning about my condition I never read about this relationship before.
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@chickenfarmer
I too take a thyroid medication. It is not much 1/2 a tablet. I think the name thyroxine.
Did I read your post right. When you raised your TSH arrhythmia went away?
I got confused when I read "Lowered TSH again and I’m arrhythmia free."
Do you remember any of the articles you read so I could research also.
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@chickenfarmer I have suffered with my thyroid since 2010 myself and it’s always been on a higher side considered hypothyroid well recently. My doctor checked it and it was down to .9 and he told me to stop taking my 88 µg of levothyroxine since I was starting to lean towards hyperthyroid so that could have an effect here and I might need to research that because I was taking it for years and I switched PCP’s and maybe he didn’t realize I don’t know. Maybe I needed to come off of it because it did get to hyper level but maybe it’s gone too far the other way I’m not sure what to do so I’ll ask him next time I go in and have that rechecked, but I was very surprised. The number was so low because I’ve always been on the higher side for my thyroid even on medication.