[StacyA]

#1060437

Sleeping is a nightmare, no pun intended. Ever since the symptoms began. I’ve never been hypo or subclinical hypo before so I have no idea what’s “normal” symptomatically.

[Kimberly]

#1182614

Hello – I’ve heard more frequent complaints about this with hyper vs. hypo, but hopefully, others will chime in here with their experiences.

[Carito71]

#1182615

Hello.

Well, now this is interesting. My experience has been of having vivid dreams and nightmares when I was taken Metoprolol for my heart rate. I discontinued the Metoprolol months ago and the nightmares/vivid dreams went away. Just exactly a week ago I was told that I’m in remission and the Dr. discontinued the Methimazole. I have been having nightmares and vivid dreams the last 3-4 nights. I told my husband that it is so weird because I’m not on any medication. My lab work last week showed normal TSH, FT3 and FT4. So, who knows what is going on. I have been attributing it to eating late at night and then going to bed about an hour after eating. I have also been wondering if this time around it is related to me exercising about 4 hours before going to bed. This exercise routine is something that I just started. Your message has gotten me thinking though. Maybe for me it is the lack of Methimazole? Maybe my body is having withdrawals? I don’t think I’m hypo, though I have to admit that I have been feeling cold at times. I’m worried that if anything is going on with my thyroid at all that I’m hyper. Last night I was moving around like crazy but I was sleeping. When I woke up I had my arms all the way up and was trying to touch the wall I told my husband that we are having dinner as soon as possible today so that we have more time between dinner and bed time. We’ll see if that helps. I want and need a good nights rest. Hope you figure out what is going on with you and soon can get a good nights rest as well.

Carol

[geostyv]

#1182616

I rarely post, but I had to post a response to the question about dreams/sleep —- for me YES! About 8 week after RAI I went superhypo (TSH around 55) and started having crazy dreams — like hallucinations. Normally (and this is true now that I am leveled out) I sleep like a brick through the night, but that was not true between being superhypo and the about 4 months dosage adjustments to be leveled out.

Here’s the thing … I did all sorts of looking around on the net, read this forum daily, and searched it for info about Graves when I was going through this. I happen to be a man with Graves so I spent a lot of time looking for info about how men respond to treatment. Either way — in all my searching about Graves I never read anything about dreams or sleep after RAI/Surgery (I am sure it is there and I missed it). However, I did mention this to my endo (who is awesome) and she said that when someone is “frankly hypothyroid” it is not uncommon for them to have disrupted sleep and that, in fact, sleep can be used as a diagnostic criterion for hypo. That is the only time I have ever heard anyone mention it until I read your post.

Any, not any real “new” info here, but I wanted to at least post that you are not alone having sleep issues and at least one endo knows about a connection between sleep and hypo. I hope this helps a little bit. Certainly there is something in the med literature out this that I never found about this connection.

For me it was probably the worst part — I was exhausted because of being hypo and that was compounded by not being about to get good sleep during that period.

Take Care
Geostyv

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