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Over the past few months, I’ve come to realize that there is a lot of evidence that I have an overdriven or overexcitable sympathetic response:

  • My fingers, toes, and ears become frigid despite vigorous warmth in my thorax and abdomen.
  • I have had an adverse effect to pseudoephedrine where my body went completely out of control.
  • Very small amounts of caffeine (one Coke) are enough to make me shake constantly.
  • I get very strong stage fright which involves gut hypermobility and diarrhea, stomachache, and frigid extremities.
  • Even at rest, I generally shift and wiggle a lot, and I talk very quickly unless I consciously tell myself to slow down.
  • I have lost thirty pounds since the start of the year with a very modest exercise regimen (2 x 25 mins / week).
  • I often have a huge appetite and can’t stop eating. But as mentioned above, I don’t gain weight.

    • Nevertheless, my airways continue to be clogged off by allergies or generalized hypersensitivity. I wonder if strong release of adrenaline at baseline is somehow a compensatory mechanism to try to combat obstruction of the airways?

    If instead I consider this to be apart from a reaction to allergies, then the list is in line with the symptoms of hyperthyroidism. However, I really don’t think that my thyroid is enlarged in any way – I can’t feel or see anything out of the ordinary. Still, that does not rule out the disease – it could just be that I have a fat neck.

    The symptoms associated with hyperthyroidism according to up-to-date are anxiety, emotional lability, weakness, tremor, palpitations, heat intolerance, increased perspiration, and weight loss despite a normal or increased appetite, hyperdefecation (not diarrhea), urinary frequency, oligomenorrhea or amenorrhea in women, and gynecomastia and erectile dysfunction in men. Certainly, I have felt anxiety (with or without stage fright), “emotional lability” (moodiness? lol. I think close friends can attest to that for sure), weakness, palpitations (at normal heartrate), increased perspiration, weight loss, and urinary frequency. And as mentioned earlier, I get tremors if I have a little bit of Sudafed or caffeine (but only a LITTLE bit, i.e. 30 mg pseudoephedrine or 20 mg caffeine is enough).

    I’ll call up my doctor tomorrow to see what he thinks. All it takes is a simple blood test to know definitively one way or another …

    This entry was posted by jhlo on October 7, 2009 at 6:22 pm under Health. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

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