apparently, the whole anti-nausea anti-histamine thing is more complicated than that. It did help control the hives but it can cause some paranoia.

And not all hives are the same. I had a biopsy on one to check composition to determine a type of cause.

The research I've read on amlodipine suggests that older women are more likely to have side effects from it. My interpretation after talking with an older friend: Is it age related or because women our age have more than likely been on the drug for a long time. My friend was on it 10 years or more and then started having the bouts of anxiety. She recently (last few months) switched back to her old medicine and is not having any more problems. I noticed a few years back that she was undergoing some changes. She couldn't watch the news because it had negative stories and couldn't deal with other people's negatives.

From the endocrinologists I've seen, the goal is to take the non-functioning one out of the picture. That means remove it surgically or not depend on it to provide the hormone. So I am supposed to get enough thyroxine so that the parathyroid doesn't send the signals to the thyroid to produce the thyroid hormones. For me, depending upon the thyroid leads to growths on my thyroid gland and other problems.

But I do admit that doctors rely too much on the TSH and not enough on the T-3 and T-4 levels and other indicators.