HazeX

Fellow Stoners,

All of my life (I'm 38) I have been perfectly healthy. Apart from a cold here, or a sinus infection there, one or two cases of pneumonia, and a compresed vertebrae in my back (freak basketball accident lol), I've been just dandy.

Over the past 3 weeks or so I've been experiencing some pretty wierd crap. It sorta felt like my blood sugar was plummeting, my heart would start racing (around 90bpm), I'd start sweating profusely, and I generally felt like I was gonna pass out, or I just reaaaaally wanted to go to sleep. But it was enough to freak me out after a few times so I decided to pay a visit to my Dr last Wednesday (15th). Told him what was going on, he did an EKG to see if my heart was wiggin' out on me, that came up normal, so he decided to do some blood work.

I have the blood taken Saturday because it was simply more convenient. He calls me up yesterday morning (Monday) and tells me my Thyroid isn't producing enough hormone and he wants to take more blood. I promptly went to the lab and gave another vial of blood. Bear in mind the symptoms described above continued, but not as frequent and not quite as bad. He also mentioned that my good cholesterol was low, but the bad stuff was normal. My blood sugar was higher than it should be but nothing critical, just gotta back off the sugars.

This morning, I got up, ate 2 fried eggs and had a tall glass of instant breakfast and within 5min, my heart was pounding, sweating my arse off, and I'm really concerned about passing out.

I contacted my advice nurse to ask if I needed to get to a hospital or call an ambulance. She of course was concerned about my heart, even tho she was aware of the thyroid issue. She spoke to ER Dr about what to do. He told her to have me wait by the phone (for 3 hours I might add) until I could have a telephone appt with my Dr at 1:30pm (30min from now).

Since then the symptoms have subsided a great deal. This is all very strange to me, and its even stranger that I can be experiencing this and sit down at my drum kit and blast it wide open and the effects seem react in a positive way to my exertion. None of this makes sense to me.

I've read through several of the articles here about both Hyper and Hypothyroidism (thank you very much for the provided links Vicki).

But, being healthy all my life and rather abruptly having these pretty wild symptoms (they're wild to me), is kinda freakin' me out, to be quite honest.

Moreover, when I smoke, thats generally when this hits me. Which saddens me really, because I really dont wanna give up my smoke. I wont lie, I love it. Not to mention it does wonders for my back when it decides to get cranky with me.

I'm not overweight. In fact, I'm underweight. I have been all my life. I'm a tall lanky guy. I'm 6'6" and as of my Dr's Visit I weighed in at 170lbs. And believe me, its not because I dont eat. I eat like a horse. lol I can't say I've had the best diet throughout my life. Lots of fast food, not much sweets at all save my Mt Dew addiction (which is now over as a result of this). I've partied a good portion of my adult life. I've tried a lot of things and I've done my fair share of drinking. (also not part of my life anymore).

I live in Northern California, and we have some of the best bud mother earth could provide IMHO. I spend more money on it than I really should. But I'm not the only one smokin' it, so, I need more than most. I dont like to run out.

But since this has been happening, my intake has been cut more than in half, mostly just out of fear of bringing on one of these episodes. They're pretty freaky and I'd like to avoid going through that (esp like today) if at all possible.

I guess my question is, how is any medication I might be given for this thyroid issue effect my MJ consumption. Would MJ have any particular cause to make these symptoms come on?

Can you simply throw every single bit of useful information you have in my direction concerning this and my questions?

I'd really appreciate it.

Sincerely,
TS