graves disease and allergies

Elaine Moore tends to believe that immunotherapy (allergy shots) makes Graves Disease worse, and can possibly bring on the Graves Eye Disease. She recommends that allergies be treated with the cortisone-type nose sprays and antihistimines instead, because of the nature of an autoimmune disease. I was about to start shots, but now I am reconsidering. Does anyone have information on this subject? Thanks!

Is it normal to feel so tired and cranky? Also I took Zirtec for my allergies and I felt like I was cloudy and just wanted to sleep and tightness in my chest..... I am currently on 137 mcg of Levothyroxine.

Last year I was diagnosed with Graves disease and had a radioactive ablation done in April. Sometime around March of 2009, my eyelids became puffy and my eyes were usually watery. I called my Endocrinologist and asked if this was related to my thyroid and she sugg. I visit my Primary Care Dr. I did and he followed an allergy path. I finally went to an allergist who said that allergies may be playing a role, it was not the primary cause.

Had some blood work done within these two weeks, followed by more bloodwork, was sent to a specialist and was told that I have Graves disease along with Hep C. Needless to say I am surprised and overwhelmed. In the past three days I have started on Tapazole, 5mg a day, and I am still getting hives this whole time, along with increased fatigue. In the past 6 years I have developed allergies (hives) from many antibiotics, where before the only allergies I used to experience were seasonal.

I am 24 and diagnosed with severe Graves last year. On Methimazole and last TSH 2.1. I woke up yesterday with eyes bloodshot, gritty, painful and eyelids swollen. I don't think I have had the bug eyes that I read about with Graves. This has happened periodically and at first I thought it was my contacts but I did not have them in the night before. I know this condition is connected with Graves but is there any treatment? I am miserable.

I really thought I was losing my mind, I have had this for about 4 yrs and just now was diagnosed with Graves disease. My Dr put me on Methimazole and after 3 weeks had a severe reaction and was covered head to toe with a horrible insanely itchy rash. Mr Endo told me I have a couple options radio active iodine or somthing else which he did not tell me what. My question is how has the radio active iodine worked for others?

I had the eye problems before I even knew I had Graves, and assumed they were allergies. I even went to the optometrist who gave me drops for "whatever that is" that helped for a while. I continued to be bothered with the excessive tearing for months, went to my General Practitioner for the eye problems and they didn't make the connection until about 4 months later when my blood pressure spiked and they ran thyroid level tests.

graves disease will attack and organ. the first time I had graves disease it was attacking my heart making my heart beat faster. I was on medication for about 2 years. then it went into remission now it is back. graves disease could attack any organ , graves disease is your immune system attacks your organs not virus or bacteria.

Within a month of taking this drug we discovered I was highly allergic to it, catapulting my thyroid levels into severe hyperthyroid. Within three months, another diagnosis of Graves Disease was applied and I was put on several medications to bring the high levels of thyroid hormone lower. After six months of in-effectual medications they radiated my thyroid. It took four years of trying every drug on the market to find one I wasn't allergic to -- or one my body would tolerate.

I'm new to thyroid disease. I have an enlarged thyroid and blood work came back positive for an overactive thyroid. I have to wait until next week to have a thyroid uptake scan to find out more. Doctor says I have several symptoms of Graves Disease: losing weight, itchy skin, heat sensitivity, heart palpitations, insomnia, light mentstrual cycle, Raynauds (numbness and tingling), plus it feels like I have a lump in my throat with trouble swallowing.

My mother had Graves disease. She did the radio active iodine treatment to try and normalize her hyper thyroid condition Since then she has not been outside in over a year because her allegeries started to overeact. About 24 weeks ago the allegeric reactions began to get more serious, she began to start choking on a daily basis. Currently she has choking episodes about 4 times a day on average.

My eye, didnt get better, so i researched online, and low and behold, information about Graves Disease pops up, and i read it. Well, as i am sure you understand, i paniced, and made an appt with my optamoligist. He said that the tissue behind my eye was swollen. After explaining all this to him, he tells me that the first drops are toxic (????

I was currently diagnosed with Graves Eye Disease. I had graves/hyper/goiter 15 yrs ago. I did the RAI, but it failed so surgery was done for a TT. My eyes slightly bulge, become red, itchy, painful pressure behind the right one. I do see double (letters overlapping letters out of the right one). My eye sight has become blurry and double from a certain distance on both, but the right one is the worst.

You need a second opinion. Based on what you describe, you have autoimmune thyroid disease with markers for Graves' (TSI) and the other common antibodies (TPO and Tg) that are usually associated with hashimoto's. Graves' and Hashi should be considered as entities on two ends of a spectrum, not two completely different diseases. This may cause fluctuating thyroid function to hypo and hyper and back but this is not common.

My mother was diagnosed in her early 40s with graves disease and her thyroid was removed, around the same time she was diagnosed with stage 3-4 colon cancer. I'm aware there are connections between autoimmune diseases and thyroid and intestinal diseases/conditions. As I'm getting older I'm noticing I'm following in the same physiological footsteps my mother did before she was diagnosed.

I have graves disease, but was in remission. Then I had cancer and chemotherapy. My TSH level is hyper again and my other tests normal. The doctors won't say if chemo can activate your graves disease. They do say that a physical or emotional change to my body can trigger it. My thoughts, Cancer and chemotherapy are big time physical and emotional changes.

19 year old son was getting hives mainly at night. Diagnosed with Graves disease a couple weeks ago and on meds now. is this normal with graves?

They have removed me off of my medicine one time to see if my Graves disease had went into remission and within two months it came back with TSH levels of 0.003...basically non-existant TSH levels. They put me back on my 10mg Methmazole and within 3 weeks my levels were normal. That is pretty much a health summary of my graves disease for the past five-six years lol.

Anyway I have Severe Graves Thyroid Eye Disease Hyper ahd hypothyrpidism and lastly Thyrotoxic Myopathy. I have always been in relatively good health although I never ate or slept and was constantly on the go. As an Event manager I always had something to plan so I went at it 500000 miles an hour. Now though I am using a walking stick, my hair has fallen out, I have lost my face to TED and I feel faint lethargic and my legs buzz all night long.

Thank you, Thyroidian. I. too, thought the same thing, and spoke with my doctor about my thyroid. He said a simple blood test confirmed I had no issues with my thyroid. I asked him about Graves Disease, since a relatively distant cousin had it, as well as other distant relatives. All my issues hit “all of a sudden” 2 years ago. I believe that because I am unemployed and have no insurance, that the Clinic does not wish to incur any further expenses. Thank you again for the validation.

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