Aren’t we special? …not too many of us have been ‘blessed’ with both diseases! I started out 12 years ago with hypothyroidism. I took synthroid and went on about my business. Simple. Three years ago my numbers started getting out of whack, not a lot, but just enough to drive my PCP crazy. She passed me off to an endo. It has gotten so much worse just in these last three years. I live with symptoms from both diseases. Every day is different and I can definitely tell which disease is dominant. And, I too have the racing, pounding heart. I can identify with you about the energizer bunny one day and completely exhausted the next. I have started showing more physical signs of each disease. I had an ultrasound a month ago. Now I know why it’s so hard to swallow and talk. It’s big, and one side is bigger than the other. I asked my endo about just removing it and taking HRT. He said that I can’t do that because it would throw me in a thyroid storm and possibly kill me. What to do ?
