Chest pain on Thyroid Meds!

PhillieFan · #1 Apr 23, 2007, 05:57 AM

I have had an under-active thyroid for many, many years and have been on thyroid hormone (mostly synthetic). I was doing fairly well, but in 2000 my doctor said he thought I would feel a lot better on natural hormone instead of Synthroid, so we changed my pills. I started to get chest pains right away. He tried to switch me back to the Synthroid, but I still got really bad chest pains. He tried EVERY OTHER kind of thyroid on the market and they all gave me chest pains. He thinks it may have happened because I was also taking Tamoxifen at the time for breast cancer, since it also has an effect on the hormone systems. We stopped all thyroid for a while, and then I started getting severe chest pains on antibiotics! I finally stopped the Tamoxifen after 4 years instead of 5 to see if that would help. I still get chest pain on certain antibiotics (thankfully I found a few I can still take!) BUT still can not get back on thyroid hormone. I am so tired now, after 7 years, I am almost bed-ridden! I can hardly get my breath when going up steps, my legs feel like lead weights when I walk. Doctors look at me like they have never heard of this, like I'm the only person in the world that has ever has this happen. I am DESPERATE!!! Does anyone have any idea what's happening to me???????????

Thank you so much for any help you can give me.

pompano · Jun 19, 2007, 05:45 PM

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Originally Posted by PhillieFan

I have had an under-active thyroid for many, many years and have been on thyroid hormone (mostly synthetic). I was doing fairly well, but in 2000 my doctor said he thought I would feel a lot better on natural hormone instead of Synthroid, so we changed my pills. I started to get chest pains right away. He tried to switch me back to the Synthroid, but I still got really bad chest pains. He tried EVERY OTHER kind of thyroid on the market and they all gave me chest pains. He thinks it may have happened because I was also taking Tamoxifen at the time for breast cancer, since it also has an effect on the hormone systems. We stopped all thyroid for a while, and then I started getting severe chest pains on antibiotics! I finally stopped the Tamoxifen after 4 years instead of 5 to see if that would help. I still get chest pain on certain antibiotics (thankfully I found a few I can still take!) BUT still can not get back on thyroid hormone. I am so tired now, after 7 years, I am almost bed-ridden! I can hardly get my breath when going up steps, my legs feel like lead weights when I walk. Doctors look at me like they have never heard of this, like I'm the only person in the world that has ever has this happen. I am DESPERATE!!! Does anyone have any idea what's happening to me???????????

Thank you so much for any help you can give me.

the pills make me feel better,but if you are on a high dose,it will make you feel a little anxious.I suggest you take half your dose in the morning,and the other at night.you will feel better once you get use to the medicine.

paconinny · Nov 5, 2009, 06:56 PM

I have chest pains with my medication as well. So much so that I have been to the ER three separate occasions sure that I was having a heart attack. All three times I was discharged with no explanation of what could be causing my pain. I have had an elektrocardiogram (sorry no idea how to spell that), chest x-rays, a take home heart monitor, and three ekgs all come back normal. I was put on a very low dose of blood pressure medication and that seemed to help but after a while I stopped taking it because I was finally feeling normal again and I am only 28 and don't want to be on medication like that forever. Anyway, I was fine until recently when they changed my dosage of synthroid and then the pains in my chest came back with a vengeance. I have to just tell myself that I know that my heart is healthy and something else is going on to make me feel this way. I wish I could be of more help but you should ask your doctor about the blood pressure medication just in case. It may help you like it did me.



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