Anyone with Hypo/Hyperthyroid also suddenly get high blood pressure?

kerry4

This may be a bit long. Sorry.

Here is a bit of history.
I AM 26, male, and I was active healthy and happy

Overview:
June 29th '07, i had gone to the ER with palpitations and high blood pressure(217/120).
Prior to this date, i was perfectly healthy. Never been to the ER and never knew what a palpitation was
After 5 hours in the ER, the doc said that all my palps and hypertension was caused by GERD?
(again, prior to this, what is GERD? I never knew what it was and didnt care)


Details:
We were in the car heading back from my sisters house about 40 mins from my house. On route, i felt a stinging/pinching in my neck then BOOM... i cant sit still, my heart is beating so hard and fast..... my ears begin ringing..... My wife is driving and is trying to calm me down. It felt as if I had just downed 50 Red Bulls in one sitting. (I dont drink that crap, tastes like battery acid)
We get home and i try to lay down... I try to calm down... i cant, i cant sit still.. basically, i go to the ER and the rest is in the overview.

Since this little experience, my blood pressure has NOT once returned to normal on its own. I am now on all kinds of meds for anxiety, gastritis and hypertension. I never had prescription anything before...

Well, general doc is no help... i seek help from a cardiologist,, he does a 24 hour urinalysis which the results came back elevated for catecholamines and metanephrines... now they suspect a Pheochromocytoma or other type of endocrine tumor.

Well, come to find out, i did the 24hour test wrong which caused a false elevation in these hormones... I find this out after two,(thats right) count 'em, thats TWO CT scans of my abdomen searching for adrenal and any other masses in there. both negative...

Well, throughout this whole ordeal, i am twitchy, panic-ed, cant sleep well, high blood pressure, tense, lethargic, weak.
I am 6'4" and was really active. I hit 260lbs about mid last year. (my heaviest ever). i liked to remain fit and healthy.

Since mid-June I have been losing weight. like i said, i was 260lbs.. now i am 220lbs. I contribute part to lack of appetite to gastritis. Come to find out, I didnt have GERD.

Anyways, one common factor since the day I went to the ER, i have been having a brused-like feeling on the left side of my lower neck (under the adams apple). Come to find out, thats where a little gland called the thyroid lives. ( i never knew what a thyroid was or where it even belonged in my 26 years on earth, till now.)
I have noticed that sometimes my thyroid would get a bit bigger, tightening my throat. Sometimes it would feel bruised like someone hit it.

I finally requested that a doc ultrasound my neck. He decides to CT my neck.
They find a 4-mm possible cyst on my right thyroid area.

Well, i finally sought the advice from an endocrinologist last week. He took a TON of blood tests, including the FULL thyroid test, not just the TSH.
Also metanephrine, catecholamine and pituitary tests. He thinks i may have had a thyroid storm followed by elevated levels of some thyroid related hormone causing hypertension, anxiety and contributing to weight loss and lethargy.

However, I go in tomorrow (thursday Aug 30th) for the follow up on my test results and an ultrasound of my neck.

I have my hopes set that my thyroid is the cause of all of my ailments. I sure hope it is. I hate my blood pressure being so high and having to be so dependant on all these meds. I feel so crappy.

I would expect this about 40 years from now, but I feel too young.

I have felt so bad the bast 2 months that i need to do this to raise my spirits.

Here is a list of everything i feel fortunate for:
-My Wife for taking care of the house, me and the kids.
-A site such as this to read and share our ailments (thereputic and educational)
-my work for allowing me to work from home the past 2 months.

Anyways, back to the question at hand

Has anyone either gone hyper or hypo and suddenly found themselves with elevated blood pressure?? If so, did treatment of the thyroid issue result in normal blood pressure??

Thank you for reading and your response is much appreciated.

Jim