ER visit

I was in the ER Tuesday and Wednesday, and now that I am feeling better, I wanted to explain to anyone who is curious.

What brought me to the ER Tuesday was being dizzy for 2 days (aside from my normal amount of daily dizziness) AND my heart rate getting up to 140 while laying down and being still. The heart rate was making me feel pressure in my chest and I was hyperventilating, which caused my face and hands to go all tingly and numb. It was also terrifying, which made it worse >.< At the ER I was hooked up to tons of monitors and my resting heart rate stayed at about 110-120 after anti-anxiety meds. It was determined that my TSH was almost 0 (which means hyperthyroid, too much meds, it is a bit confusing). Why do I take thyroid medicine? My RE (fertility dr) noticed my thyroid hormone was a bit low when he did a complete workup in August, which is a cause for infertility, so he put me on meds to fix it. The dose was so low one doctor said, "looking at the bottle does about the same thing". I had my levels re-checked and they looked good in Sept and again in early Jan. Then my thyroid went crazy? I have been taken off my thyroid meds for now and we wait out the 3 weeks while they slowly leave my system. Then we can determine if I am truly hyperthyroid or if it was the meds. I was given a beta-blocker to lower my heart rate, and it did. The heart problem was fixed(ish), but I was still really dizzy. I was given the choice to be admitted to the hospital or go home to see if I get better and I choose home.

I kept taking the beta blockers as instructed on Wednesday, but I was slowly deteriorating all day. My heart was fine, but I was SO DIZZY. I went back to the ER Wednesday night, as I was told to do if I got any worse. While sitting hooked up to monitors while doctors tried to figure out what was wrong, I started getting much better as my beta blockers wore off and my resting heart rate went from ~65 to ~85. I started getting more wiggly and demanding to get my IV out so I could go home. Much more me =)

I am being kept on beta blockers, but I have tiny pills that I take "as needed" to keep my resting heart rate around 85. How the doctor put it was, "there is a reason you have tachycardia, it keeps you from passing out". When they prevented my tachycardia, I was dizzy.

SO, my thyroid is to blame for this whole thing. I was not really on enough medicine to do what happened, so something is more wrong with it than anyone thought. Surprisingly, my RE has not canceled my cycle this month. IUI tomorrow!