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Hyperthyroidism: Its Important Symptoms, Causes, Treatment And Lifestyle

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[1863-project]

I liked your post about body image vs Hashimotos. I have both Graves and Hashimotos, which is rare but does happen. (Most docs only run tests for one or the other depending on if you’re hyper or hypo at the time, and so they miss the fact that you have both antibodies simultaneously.) And in general I have a pretty decent handle on my self-image and confidence, but now and then I get terribly overwhelmed by it all. I’ve had a thyroid diagnosis since I was 14, and I’m over 40 now, and keeping my weight down (or fighting my compulsion to try to keep my weight down) has been difficult. I’m just glad to come across posts like yours now and then that remind us all that we are okay as we are, and that our medical struggles aren’t our portrait. Anyway, keep up the positivity, please. It helps.

Hi, anon! I'm so glad that post helped you!

As common as thyroid issues are, they're so rarely talked about (I have a sneaking suspicion that it's because they tend to be most common in AFAB people). It's definitely difficult to live with it, and I struggle with my body image a lot because of how the thyroid weight chose to deposit itself on my body - some days, it can be dysmorphic, and people saying things like "just diet and exercise!" don't understand that an autoimmune disorder doesn't play by those rules.

The best thing we can do is keep doing the best we can to take care of ourselves and meet our needs now, and continue to be kind to ourselves on our bad days.

[trellanyx]

Got diagnosed with Graves Disease today. Suddenly a lot of things make sense. Now I just gotta get the endocrinologist to call me back…

[smudge-cell]

I've been dealing with Thyroid issues for a while and I wanted to express how I feel with my art. Went from being diagnosed with Graves disease, having a total Thyroidectomy, and then Cancer being found on my thyroid.

[dimonds456-art]

vent art below the cut, as well as an explanation for it. it's a mess on purpose. read the tags.

Starting off positive, here's how I draw myself now :) Style improvement! And my mustache hairs are growing in and one of them is over a centimeter long and it's my pride and joy.

okay now onto everything else. fucking help me. /ns

Gonna start with the butterfly imagery, since it's a reoccurring theme when I talk about my disabilities. The butterfly is because of my Graves Disease, which is a subgenre of hyperthyroidism. What's that? Uh basically there's a gland in your throat called the "thyroid" that's shaped like a butterfly, and it's responsible for your ENTIRE METABOLISM, and mine decided to do cocaine one day and never stopped. This results in increased heartrate, shaky hands, dizziness, and an eye disease where your eyes swell and can make you go blind if not treated.

(and no mine is not currently being treated so. :) )

I've had Graves since middle school, and I will for life. For reference of how bad it got before I got treated after 6 months of suffering, if I ran around outside for 5 minutes my heart rate could get up to 220 BPM. Which can kill you. Somehow I only ever saw stars once.

The next imagery I wanna point out is the layers on me. I show some things as brighter, and there's two layers like that- a bright one and a much dimmer one, which is why I kept this a sketch. The bright one is the surface-level disabilities, such as joint weakness, my eye disease, and my swollen thyroid. The dimmer one is my brain and skeleton. I have never actually broken my bones, but for some reason these days, joint weakness has me and they'll just fucking stop working sometimes for no goddamn reason.

The diamonds on my shirt is obviously a reference to my name, "Dimonds456." The design was actually made by my abuser, and so I actually am starting to have some second thoughts about using this particular design despite how much I love it, thus the shattered idea. Plus, diamonds don't break- they shatter. I'm about to shatter, too, so it's just like me fr.

After that, the text all around me. There are three layers. Let's talk about the black ones first. Those are all my disabilities. That's it. To make it easier to read, they're:

Autism

Anxiety

PTSD

Mental regression (probably because of all the other mental shit I'm dealing with)

Depression

ADHD

Weakness in joints

Inhaler as needed

Tires easily

Abuse

Graves Disease

On meds for life (methimazole literally keeps me alive)

Eye disease

Prone to falling

Eating disorder: ARFID ?????

Asthma

Audio processing disorder

Trauma

:,)

Then, the blue layer. The blue and red layers and kinda having a conversation with each other, with blue being my inner monologue and the red ones being still that, but more intrusive and hopeless. The blue thoughts range from "I can't do this" to "I want to," to "Wait, this is too much" to "STOP" to "THIS IS TOO MUCH" and various stuff like that.

The red texts are much, much more negative. "Running out of time." Never safe. I will never feel safe." "My own body wants me DEAD." "NEVER SAFE." "WHAT IS SAFETY?!" these are my intrusive thoughts, and... yeah. My anxiety and trauma already make me feel like I can never be safe in the spaces I'm in, so when I do actually feel safe with the people or location I'm in, my body's there to remind me that no, I'm not. Because I could literally just die at any goddamn moment.

Which brings me to the scythe. The Reaper. He's close. I'm running out of time. To do what? I don't know, live? Impact people? Fucking exist?

The clock shows that, too.

Finally, the dialogue bubbles. The straw that broke the camel's back in terms of me making this art. My recent doctor visit. I'm trans. I'm a demiboy who just wants to figure out what my fucking gender is. I know I want top surgery, but the dr says I HAVE to start HRT in order to get the surgery I want, which is enbyphobic. I've talked about it with other trans people, and we all agree what the dr told me was fucked.

The other bubbles are other things people have said to me. Particularly, I wanna talk about the "are you ACTUALLY disabled?" one because so so so so so many people have fucking asked me that and I want to scream. Like gee, I dunno, maybe it's all in my head. Maybe I'm normal. Maybe my graves disease was all a FUCKING DREAM. The eating disorder I'm getting now that not even the doctors are sure what the fuck it is wasn't real, I'm just a picky eater and I am just a fucking attention-seeking masochist. SURE. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH ME.

Shut the fuck up.

The butterfly is actively choking me. I'm loosing weight. I've felt more anxious recently than I ever have in my fucking life. I have a goddamn eating disorder where I physically CANNOT EAT. It sounds like ARFID but it's also not quite that, I'm in a weird grey area.

i'm 20 years old.

Ever since I got diagnosed with Graves in middle school, I've felt like my existence was defying something. Like I was supposed to die. I also had intense depression at the time, so that definitely added to it, but yeah. Then more happened. I had my first fall. I got put on the wrong dosage and nearly got killed. Struggled to breathe. My eyes tear up more often due to the disease, and I have an aversion to light I didn't have before. The eating disorder. Not to mention my bad knee, weakness in joints, pain in hips, ect.

It just keeps piling up. More, and more, and more, and more disabilities appear and try to catch me by surprise. I got deathly ill last winter. I quit college this year because of the trauma of being outside while on my wrong dosage from last summer. But this time, I'm fucking freezing when I'm anywhere except in the sun, which still makes me feel viscerally uncomfortable, because of whatever the fuck is happening with my eating disorder.

I'm so fucking tired. I don't know how much farther I can go. I'm running out of time. I can't handle another disability. I just can't. If I wind up getting appendicitis or something I'm running back home to my parents and staying there because at least they make me feel SAFE.

I'm not safe. I will never be safe inside this body. I will never feel safe because of my anxiety and trauma. I'm reaching a boiling point where it's starting to spill over onto those around me and I hate it. I am aware that this post is not helping that at all. But... I just don't wanna suffer in silence anymore. I'm tired. I want to be a good memory, but I fear my time is coming and I don't have much more "memory" to make.

I want to be wrong. Please, stars, let me be wrong. Let this all be in my head. Let this all be one big misunderstanding on my part. Please. Please let me wake up and realize that this was all a fucking nightmare.

I can't look at this screen anymore. My eyes hurt and my wrists are starting to give out.

[vanillabat99]

I might be trying for remission again this summer! I have to do some bloodwork to check my antibody levels, so we'll reassess from there. I've tried for remission before, but it was only a couple years into treatment and didn't work out, so I'm excited to try again!

[eatclean-bewhole]

A TSH above a 2.0 mlU/L is an indication of low thyroid, regardless of what conventional medicine lab ranges say.

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[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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[health-homeopathy]

Graves Disease Treatment In Homeopathy

It is best to start Graves disease treatment homeopathy if you are suffering from high levels of thyroid hormones. Grave's disease is an autoimmune problem of thyroid. Your thyroid hormones are secreted in excessive quantities leading to hyperthyroidism.

With limited treatment options, patients consult a qualified homeopathy doctor for Grave's disease treatment.

Symptoms for which patients with Grave’s disease consult at Dr. Mehta’s Standard Homeopathy Clinic in Mumbai are as follows: -

Palpitations

Anxiety and fear

Loss of weight

Weakness

Goitre or neck swelling due to an enlarged thyroid

High levels of T3 and T4 hormones

Low levels of TSH hormones

High level of thyroid antibodies in blood report

Trembling

Homeopathic medicines act on the root cause to bring a balance in your health and immunity. Homeopathy remedies like Iodum, Thyroidinum, Sponging tests, etc are popular amongst patients for treatment of Grave’s disease. However a remedy must be selected after considering several parameters in a patient. Treating a patient on the lines of basic principles of homeopathy is highly rewarding.

[thethyroidrelation]

Unmasking Thyroid Eye Disease (TED): Your Guide to Understanding and Managing TED

Ever wondered why our bodies sometimes feel out of sync? The culprit could be our thyroid. This tiny gland can cause a ripple effect of issues in our body, often masquerading as other conditions. But there’s one symptom that’s hard to overlook - Thyroid Eye Disease, or TED.

Also known as Graves’ eye disease or Graves’ Ophthalmopathy, TED is a condition that occurs when you have an overactive thyroid or hyperthyroidism. It targets the eye muscles and connective tissue within the eye sockets. Interestingly, some people diagnosed with TED have normal hormone levels, while half of those with Graves’ disease develop eye symptoms.

Here’s a surprising fact: even if you’re successfully treating Graves’ Disease, you could still have TED. They may share a name, but they are two distinct diseases.

Spotting the Signs of Thyroid Eye Disease

Symptoms can surface within 6 months of a Graves’ disease diagnosis. However, these symptoms can appear at any time, so it’s crucial to consult your doctor if you suspect you have TED. Here are some symptoms to watch out for:

Irritated or gritty-feeling eyes

Pain in or around your eyes

Deep pressure-type pain or headaches

Red or inflamed whites of your eyes

Constantly teary or dry eyes

Swollen eyelids

Light sensitivity

Displaced or bulging eyes

Vision problems, including double vision

Pain when moving or closing your eyes

Dimmer lights or abnormal color vision

Loss of vision

Managing Symptoms at Home

If your symptoms are severe, please dial 911 immediately. If you’re waiting for a doctor’s appointment and your symptoms are manageable, here are some home remedies to alleviate discomfort:

Wear sunglasses to protect against wind, light sensitivity, and debris.

Use eye drops for irritation and dryness.

Avoid secondhand smoke to prevent cornea irritation and inflammation.

Apply cool compresses to reduce pain, swelling, and inflammation.

Use artificial tears to soothe swelling and inflammation.

Navigating Treatment Options for Thyroid Eye Disease

Once your doctor assesses your condition, you’ll have a range of treatment options tailored to your needs. These include:

Vitamins

Topical Remedies

Steroids

Orbital Radiation

Biologic Therapies

Surgery

The FDA officially announced the first treatment for TED, Tepezza, on January 21st, 2020. This treatment reduces eye bulging, but remember, all medications come with side effects.

With the right treatment, TED can be managed successfully. Neglecting TED can lead to eye ulcers and even permanent vision loss. Prioritize your health and seek medical attention if you have concerning symptoms.

I hope this post sheds light on TED. I’d love to hear about your experiences with TED, the remedies that gave you relief, and the medical options you chose. How effective were they in alleviating your symptoms? Your insights could help others navigating the same journey.

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Even when you remove the butterfly boy, he still wins.

reposting now that I've fixed privacy settings

[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.

[novelistdaviswrit3s]

Confessions… Part 1

In life we go through things and it is supposed to make us stronger right? So what do we do when the things we go through makes us feel weak? What do we do when we go through things we didn’t know even existed? There are so many things in this world one can endure and go through and we as humans (at least some of us) go through them with a smile on our faces and others will never even know that…

[vanillabat99]

Hey, can I ask you a thyroid question? Is the ratio of FT3 to FT4 important or not? I keep running into conflicting info. If the ratio is high (but FT4 and FT3 themselves are normal), does that indicate hyperthyroidism (in the sense that T4 to T3 conversion is too fast) or not? If so, combined with low TSH, (low but still normal), is that reason to test for TRAb? My mom had Graves Disease (and has Hashimoto now). I'm losing weight very slightly when I only ever gained before. Pituitary being stepped on by a benign brain tumour. Endocrinologist appointment in March (and that's because the GPdecided it was "urgent"). Anti-TPO very slightly elevated. I had small lumps on last ultrasound. Not panicking or anything, but is that a form of hyperthyroidism or not? Should I insist on TRAb (I can't afford to do the test with my own money), or not?

Hi!! Apologies for not answering this right away, I needed some time to think about it!!

I really appreciate that you are asking me, however I do not think I am qualified to answer any of your questions :( My knowledge of hyperthyroidism is very limited, and I only really know surface-level stuff. Any further details are for my own personal health maintenance and I'm not sure if they're broadly applicable. On top of that, my memory isn't very good, so any info I share might not be accurate anyways, which is not ideal for topics like this.

I'm really sorry you're going through all that!! I hope you are able to get answers soon!! I will post this in hopes that someone can help you more than I am able to. Wishing you the best 💕💕💕

[djsherriff]

I actually had this drawn last year but wanted to add a voice over to this, I guess this counts?