[MikeLSU]

in reply to: What Products Make Life With Graves’ a Little Easier? #1061097

When I get the hot sweats I use two soft blue ice packs placed inside of a pair of all white tube sox. One behind my neck and one on my forehead or top of my head. I am prone to heat induced migraines so as soon as I feel hot sweats coming I break out the blue ice. I got both of them from CVS.

[MikeLSU]

in reply to: Insomia relief? #1061193

Thank you very much CGKayaks (especially for that final answer). I will try some of those techniques. Tonight, actually, now it is this morning I will try them for effect. I think the insomnia is tapering off but tonight is one of those nights. Have a good week.

-Mike

3am. I slept from about 12:30am to 1:30am. I then woke up with the feeling of a panic attack setting in. It did. I was able to ride it out. Now I am dead tired, but as soon as I lay down I feel the overpowering urge to get up. This is just not fun. I have a beta blocker I take for migraine prevention called Atenolol that is also prescribed for prevention of these panic attack onsets in hyperthyroid cases. My blood pressure is normal (even while in a mild to strong panic attack) so I can only take a low dose to prevent low blood pressure. I remember when I first took it I always felt "good". FYI – it is a prescribed drug by my GP and I take no other medications regularly. Anyone reading this should avoid Atenolol and Xanax together as they have moderate interaction (hypotension I believe).

I have never dreaded the night in my life. I do now. As soon as the sun goes down my comfort level decreases as I anticipate what is coming. It is very hard to explain this to my employees and boss. We are a tiny company. I’ll be dead on my butt all day today again or worse than yesterday.

For the record I went 3 nights without any medication to help me sleep. I got 4 to 6 hours sleep each night and felt good. Yesterday morning I woke up at 3am (went to sleep at 11) and ground through the day. I thought for sure I would sleep easily tonight. I am starting to think when I get extremely tired I may be more prone to the panic attacks. My thoughts seem a lot "louder" when I am really tired.

OK, enough rambling from the mentally exhausted. Time to go read the financial reports from some bloated company like Bill Gates inc, that could put a loaded crack addict to sleep

It took until well past sunrise to get to sleep. Someone on another post said they took an antacid and fell directly to sleep. I am starting to suspect I have multiple things working together to cause these bad nights. I did have some mild indigestion with gas. The fear of not being able to breathe gets really strong when a panic attack hits. I now think the indigestion/gas causes the fear to grow. I am going to look into a daily 24 hour OTC pill like Prilosec.

[MikeLSU]

in reply to: Insomia relief? #1061191

The panic attacks are now gone and I was able to sleep about 2 hours at a time over the weekend. I suspect the insomnia may taper off.

Going back to my original base question:

Do those of you who have been hyperthyroid in the past that then went euthyroid ever get the symptoms of GD (like panicky feelings, insomnia and sweating)?

Great forum by the way, have learned a lot about the ins and outs of this disease. I’ll be showing this to my neighbor who also has GD.

[MikeLSU]

in reply to: Insomia relief? #1061190

Bobbi, my blood was tested this week. Hormone levels are normal. The point of my post is my hormone levels are normal but I am still having heat sensitivity and insomnia. The insomnia is what bothers me the most.

Thanks Msmanatee, i will try a lower dose and see if it still knocks out the insomnia without dragging me down for th whole next day.

Have a good week.

Mike

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