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Please any of my fellow PVC Warriors please help me feel better
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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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@jc76 my error I should have written “lowered my TSH and arrhythmias went away again
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@jc76 you should definitely try lowering your levothyroxine dose and see what happens. Low TSH especially under 1.0 is hyper. Not sure what level of TSH is defined as hypo. Sorry for the confusion- low TSH means you have excess thyroid hormone so raising TSH lowers thyroid hormone if you go far enuff you become hypo, TSH > 5.0 rings a bell and hypo can cause other issues. I recommend reading more about that. If I were you I would scale back on the 88 mcg by skipping a couple of days per week, maybe space omissions 3 days apart. Also at some point after you’ve settled into a routine get your PCP to order a TSH test. Need to keep track of the numbers to insure you’re in the Goldilocks range with TSH. I’m still searching for endocrinologist or EP who understands this issue. Pretty specialized field but If I find one I’ll post it