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Hello, @dosina. I'm 73...74 in a few days and have spent the past year dealing with the same/similar symptoms, getting progressively worse. This experience ended in Nov. 2020, Mayo.

I, too, was fearful I was re-experienceing dreaded menopause. I was not.

I began taking levothyroxine several years ago. I was just below normal for my age group. A couple years ago, dosage was increased gradually. Then, the new symptoms started.

Night sweats got to the point my head would get very hot and hotter, beginning at night then off and on all day. Then,, add sweating to the point I had sweating running down my face, neck, all over my head, then my whole body was involved. I had chills, my anxiety level kept going up, couldn't stop talking, agitated.....etc. I told several doctors who didn't connect to thyroid.

When admitted through ED after episodes thought to be BP related, 'fainting ' on getting up from a stretcher or chair, Mayo docs zeroed in on the thyroid. My hypothyroid was hyperthyroid due to over medication.

My dosage was cut back to 122mcg from 157mcg. Within days I began improving. Calmed down, fewer tremors, no 'hot heads', no sweating, no fainting and generally much improved!

I am still feeling better. Everything seems to be working better. I hope this story helps you w/yours. It may not be the same, but now you have more information to add to the pot.

Wishing you well and blessings on this journey.
Elizabeth

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No, I am not experiencing night sweats. In fact I did not have them with menopause because I had my uterus removed at age 35 and then the doctors told me nothing. When I was about 50, I learned that any menopause I may have experienced happened after that surgery. Later I went on Estrogen because I wasn’t sleeping and I was employed for three years. After 10 years, I was told to quit the Estrogen because of cancer risk. I am taking 112 mcg of Synthroid after having my thyroid removed due to cancerous growths. My Endocrinologist says everything is perfect.

But I have cold chills down my back despite wearing sweaters and I have hot spells several times a day including in the middle of the night, without any sweating. I didn’t sweat last summer while working in the sun in the garden. I thought that was strange. I have little energy and don’t work hard at all anymore. The diabetes is well under control with my diet. I am scheduled to get my kidneys scanned as well as my bladder. I just need to sleep better without pills, of course, so I can get up at a reasonable time in the morning. Dorisena