#Graves' Disease

[trotoarima]

Nakon 11 nedelja

Nakon jedanaest nedelja terapije, otišao sam na kontrolu. Za potrebe kontrole, vadio sam krv zbog FT4, TSH i TRAb vrednosti.

Pre početka terapije, FT4 je bio 45.5. Nakon 5 nedelja terapije, FT4 je 30.6. Nakon 11 nedelja terapije, FT4 je 18.2. Eutiroidizam je uspostavljen. Endokrinolog je zadovoljan. Navodi da upornije nizak TSH i viši TRAb govore da sam malo rezistentniji pacijent na lečenje i podiže doze Tiamazola. Ideja je da, do sledeće kontrole, TSH bude na zadovoljavajućem nivou.

Nastavljam sa terapijom, doze lekova:

Tiamazol:

Do kontrole (23.11.2023): 1x30mg dnevno, subotom i nedeljom 1x20mg dnevno

Propranolol:

Do kontrole (23.22.2023): 2x20mg dnevno

Osećam se drastično bolje. Danas sam uradio kosi benč 115kg x 6 i to je najbolji rezultat koji sam postigao od početka terapije. Praktično, to je nivo snage koji sam imao pre dijagnostikovanja Grejvsove bolesti. Apetit mi je odličan, san takođe (kada pratim telo i legnem "ranije" na spavanje), koncentracija bolja (počinjem da vraćam fokus za rad, čitanje i razmišljanje).

[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.

[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.

[trotoarima]

Nakon 40 nedelja

Nakon četrdeset nedelja terapije, vadio sam krv za potrebe kontrole. Testirani su nivoi TSH i FT4.

Pre početka terapije, FT4 je bio 45.5. Nakon 5 nedelja terapije, FT4 je 30.6. Nakon 24 nedelja terapije, FT4 je 12.8. Nakon 40 nedelja, FT4 je 17.1. TSH je 4.2. Endokrinolog je smanjio doze Tiastata:

Tiamazol:

Do kontrole (12.08.2024): 1x5mg dnevno, vikendom 1x10mg dnevno

Propranolol:

Do kontrole (12.08.2024): 1x20mg dnevno

Već dve nedelje ležem do 00:30h, ocene za san (Huawei Health) su daleko bolje (u proseku preko 82-83).

Snaga na treningu je odlična, osećam se puno, mišićna masa mi je veća i gušća. Ravan benč je 130kg x 7, prednji čučanj je 140kg x 3 (s još par ponavljanja u rezervi). Telesna težina je oko 113kg.

[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

[curvymommy70]

Reasons I feel like shit. My thyroid sucks again

[prettyboykatsuki]

Sakura is the main character of Wind Breaker and absolutely your type lmaooo

i just looked him up again and this was the one guy i remembering seeing in passing and immediately liked SFKJSD this sucks actually

[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!

[prismaticstarshch]

people who have multiple chronic conditions (physical, mental, or both): what's life like?

For me, I live a normal life with:

Cryptogenic (unknown seizure trigger) epilepsy

Grave's disease (a thyroid condition that causes hyperthyroidism)

Pollen allergies

Possible high-functioning autism (I currently have yet to see whether or not I actually have it, but I do experience things that could go along with it, such as poor eye contact, missing social cues, difficulty interpreting tone, stimming, insistence on routine, sensory stuff (I have sensitivities in all 5 of the senses, and have aversions to some things related to them), general awkwardness, anxiety, etc.; on top of that, epilepsy and autism can co-occur)