[mwhitney]

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My mom has the opposite of me – Hashimoto’s thyroid.
She recently for the first time, had a armor overdose where she went hyper.

She ended up in the ER friday, with sky high blood pressure 200/110, she’s having the shortness of breath, fatigue, anxiety, some numbness in a leg and her bottom lip (which we found out is a anxiety reaction). They ran all the tests and figured out she’s gone into hyper thyroid. She’s been hypo for about 13 years, since she had radiation and chemo treatments for cancer.

I was wondering , the hormone levels in a dormant thyroid take the same amount of time to adjust to the levels as someone with hyper.

She’s just really feeling the anxiety and is watching her blood pressure.

Thanks for anything is advance!

[Ellen_B]

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What an ordeal for you and your Mom to have to go through. Either too much thyroid hormone or two little thyroid hormone can affect and cause high blood pressure. Thank goodness your mother went to the ER where she would be able to get the needed treatment.
I am going to try to answer your question of whether it takes the same amount of time for the levels of thyroid hormone to adjust in someone who has a non functioning thyroid as some who has an over active thyroid. Thyroid hormone (T4) has a half life of one week. I know it takes 4 to 6 weeks for thyroid hormone (T4) to build up in the body and 4 to 6 weeks to get rid of it. How much thyroid hormone is your mother’s thyroid putting out? If it is totally dormant than it is probably not putting out much or any. You could get some idea by the amount of T4 medicine she was on initially. If that is the case then the thyroid is not putting out any additional thyroid hormone and she just has to wait for the thyroid hormone in the armour (T4 and T3) to go away. Armour as you know has both T4 (less active) and T3 more active hormone. The T3 has a much shorter half life– it starts to work quickly and lasts for only a matter of hours when it is all used up. So I would imagine that the T3 would disappear rapidly. The T4 would take longer but with a half life for T4 of one week it disappears but more slowly–half of it should be gone in a week–half of that in another week etc.
I hope this helps you to understand a little more what is going on.
Your question is not at all off the topic but right on.You wanted to know how soon your mother’s hormone would return to normal.
Let us know how your mother progress.
Take Care
Ellen

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