anxiety attacks

by felicity
(england)

I think I am experiencing anxiety attacks, my neck goes red and blotchy my heart beats fast and feel very hot. I have essential tremor and the shakes are worse when im anxious. It happens for no reason really and im generally a nervous person. I also have extreme hunger pangs which also makes my shaking worse and my stomach rumbles very loudly (embarrassing) I used to have a goitre and believe this is all to do with my thyroid my symptoms seem very similar to hyperthyroid but my blood test are normal?

Answer:

I agree this does sound like anxiety attacks. You are quite right that an over active thyroid gland can give similar symptoms, but if your blood test is normal this would seem very unlikely. Occasionally you can have something called T3 thyrotoxicosis where the T4 (the normal thyroid hormone measured) is normal, but the T3 levels are raised. You might like to ask your doctor if you have had this checked. As important, you need to discuss coping strategies with your doctor about the anxiety symptoms you have. There is a lot of help you can get for your anxiety.

Anxiety

Thank you very much for your advise I was a bit worried about going to the doctors about my anxiety as I didnt think there would be much they could do and I didnt want to waste their time. I will also ask about the T3.
Thank you for your time




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