#Graves' Disease

[madlori]

I reflexively answered "No, never" but...I might have.

In my mid-20s I suddenly started losing a bunch of weight. I'd just started a fairly physical job so I didn't think much of it at first. But when I'd lost like 60 lbs in a year without changing anything about my life, I got suspicious. I also noticed that I was experiencing bouts of tachycardia. I'd be sitting on the couch and my heart rate was 150 bpm. That ain't normal.

I went to my doctor. She took ONE look at me and went "oh yeah you have Graves' disease." Hyperthyroidism, basically.

I went to an endocrinologist who gave me an uptake test and pronounced that I had one of most hyperactive thyroids he'd ever seen. Now, this is a serious condition. Untreated, it can lead to blindness and heart failure. But happily, it is very treatable. Options included surgery to remove most of the thyroid or a radioactive iodine treatment to kill most of it. The downside is that you almost certainly then go hypothyroid. But that's much easier to manage, you just take a thyroid pill daily.

I opted for the non-surgical option. Treatment was successful, it took a few months to stabilize my TSH levels and get the appropriate dosage of synthroid, but it's been more than 20 years now and this condition doesn't affect me except that I take a daily thyroid pill. My dosage has not changed in...forever.

So technically I suppose I have a chronic health condition, but honestly I barely think about it.

This is asking about any significantly life altering or life threatening physical disease, infection, or accident that a medical specialist would have needed to test/treat you for.

Anon had a cancer scare that thankfully turned out to be benign, but some bad info and a long waitlist made for a very stressful time. They're wondering how many others have been there!

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[atassociation12]

https://www.thyroid.org/

The American Thyroid Association® (ATA) is the professional home for clinicians and researchers dedicated to thyroid health. Learn more and join us.

[harmeet-saggi]

Thyroid Disease: Causes, Symptoms, Risk Factors, Testing

There are a number of causes for thyroid disease, including autoimmune diseases, radiation exposure, and iodine deficiency. Some risk factors include having a family history of thyroid disease, being female (thyroid disease is more common in women), and being over the age of 60. Symptoms can vary depending on the type of thyroid disease but may include weight gain or loss, fatigue, hair loss, constipation, and muscle weakness.

[emyn-arnens]

Angrod and Aegnor Headcanons

↳ for @arafinwean-week Day 3: Angrod and Aegnor

Angrod was intent on justice as a child, and as he grew older, he developed an affinity for debate.

He was given the epessë "Iron-handed" not only because of his strength of hands and his talent in sparring, but because he was known to rule with an iron fist and place justice above mercy. Aegnor tempered him, as did Edhellos.

Those who did not know them well thought that Aegnor was the angrier of the two, but his anger burned out quickly and he could be made to see reason even in the midst of his anger. Angrod was slower to rouse to anger, but fiercer and more terrible in his wrath, and his ire did not easily cool.

During their youth, it was often Aegnor who dragged Angrod away from fights with the sons of Fëanor, reminding him of the chastisement they would receive not only from their parents (Finarfin was loath to incur any new reason for discord with his brother's family), but from Finrod and Galadriel as well, who believed it was wisest to keep well away from Fëanor and his sons.

(But if Aegnor ever got into a fight with their cousins, Angrod would swiftly end it. This was when he began to be called "Iron-handed.")

Aegnor was a poet and writer in Aman, known for his verses on nature and his whimsical poetry about the lands that lay over the Sea, inspired his mother's cradle songs. It was said that he left the craft behind him after he travelled over the Ice. Andreth could rarely persuade him to share with her the verses he had written.

Angrod was one of very few who knew of Aegnor's relationship with Andreth and was in Aegnor's confidences well before Finrod ever learned of what had grown between Aegnor and Andreth.

After Aegnor left Andreth, it was said that a terrible anger began to build within him, fury against the Enemy who had long ago dealt to Men the injury of death, and he became single-minded in his purpose to deal out to Morgoth the same injury he had dealt to Men.

Aegnor grew wrathful with the complacency of the Noldor and how easily they placed their trust in the Siege. The greater part of his wrath was held for the sons of Fëanor and their disinclination to act, but he grew angry with Fingon for not heeding Fingolfin's counsel, and it was during the Siege of Angband that the friendship of their youth was at last ended.

It was said amongst the Eldar that after Aegnor's death it became common to name those inflamed with the lust of battle as "consumed with fell fire, like Aegnor of old" and to say that their eyes "gleamed with the same fell fire" that consumed Aegnor, lord of Dorthonion, at the hour of his death.

[whyoneartheven]

Could everyone please pray for my family? We’ve come down with a nasty cold, and my mom has developed Bronchitis. My youngest brother also has a fever, as well as the second youngest. The latter is the same brother recently diagnosed with Graves’ Disease, and this fever might lead to complications. He might need to go to the emergency room tonight. Also, my dad is going through a very intense few weeks at work, and combined with the sickness at home he is very stressed out.

[chekhovs-nailgun]

and so there i am, the caretaker of sin to your abandoned and malignant heart

andrew x ashley / coffincest board because i saw somebody else make one and it reminded me how much fun i have making them. :) antis dni please

[olive-man]

i have a problem

[3liza]

it is my professional opinion as an armchair diagnostician and piece of shit that whoever is running the Wendy Williams guardianship is intentionally not treating the Graves' Disease adequately if at all, and is blaming the symptoms on alcoholism as a tactic to keep her insane and incompetent. hyperthyroidism can tip you over into full insanity if you aren't super healthy to begin with and all her other symptoms are directly related to hyperthyroidism that would certainly be worsened by alcoholism but definitely not entirely caused by it. alcohol is a depressant and would be a pretty effective (if dangerous and unhealthy) self medication for the constant, panic-attack-like symptoms of untreated hyperthyroidism also. her team is keeping her sick at some level.

this woman shouldn't even have a thyroid at this point, she was diagnosed years and years ago and they're supposed to either remove it surgically or kill it with radioactive iodine, put the patient into HYPOthyroid state, and then supplement with thyroid hormone until the patient is normal again. she very very very obviously still has active hyperthyroidism. which is insane because it's extremely treatable. but everyone around her is idiot Hollywood people who think vodka is making her eyeballs swell out of her head. someone diagnosed the characteristic swelling and thickening on her feet as lymphedema. it's not! it's the graves disease! every symptom she has, besides being DRUNK, is the graves disease!

I've had hyperparathyroidism and it didn't just make me "irritable and anxious" it made me CRAZY crazy. a woman Wendy's age with a substance problem who's been allowed to go untreated for this long?????? of course she's into full blown dementia at this point. take the thyroid out and medicate her correctly she would probably immediately get back like 40% of the lost function

[chthonic-cassandra]

Did fun things today and it's exciting that I was able to do them! But unfortunately I think I rather overdid it.

[vintagepromotions]

'Fighting cancer'

Poster by the the regional anti-cancer centre at the Hospice de la Grave, Toulouse, featuring a man armed with a sword and shield fighting a mass of black tentacles (1932). Artwork by Marc Saint-Saens.

[kewpiedome]

the surreal Experience of going on tiktok lives and Sending the most Deranged and narcotized People roses and Watching them respond is like giving a dollar to the homeless except im doing It with My Buddy Jacob so its More like those Tiktok Accounts dedicated to Giving Money to the Homeless but its All Scripted and we Kick them in the Groin After

[jdorian]

"why do i feel so tired?" — the guy diagnosed with sleepy tired disease

[azuresquirrel]

my friends, if nothing else, let spite motivate you to live. I sure am.

[djsherriff]

Wanted to animate something, miss doing it but this is all I could muster up atm

[chekhovs-nailgun]

i owe you a black eye and two kisses; tell me when you wanna come and get ‘em

y’all seemed to really like my first one so i made a second, softer, more romantic one. it’s nice to give ‘em a bit more than angst sometimes. :) antis dni please

the playlist work is coming along slowly, gonna try and make some serious progress this weekend!

[curvymommy70]

Reasons I feel like shit. My thyroid sucks again