Graves disease and osteoporosis
Common Questions and Answers about Graves disease and osteoporosis
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I have been diagnosed with osteoporosis and have noticed that recently I have a lot of pain in my teeth and jaw. This has prompted me to wonder if osteoporosis affects the teeth in general as they are inbedded in bone? And how so?
These are all essentially the same numbers -- at best, one could conclude it's stable Graves' with subclinical hyperthyroidism. If there is no heart disease, bone loss (osteoporosis) and you are <65 years old, this could be observed if you have no symptoms.
It sounds like you may have Graves disease, too much thyroid hormone causes weight loss, heart palpitations, hairloss, sleeplessness, and Osteoporosis. Don't know about the B-12, but it may be thyroid related. Google Graves disease and check your symptoms.
I don't understand why your doctor would recommend thyroxine...... that's used for hypothyroidism (i.e. when the thyroid doesn't produce enough hormones). You have hyperthyroidism, which means your thyroid produces too much hormones.
Hyperthyroidism can be very dangerous to your health, if not treated properly. It can cause heart problems, contribute to osteoporosis, cause weight loss, etc.
Have you been on a thyroid replacement medication? If so, you're over medicated.
I dont go back to my endo until 4-14 at which time i will be asking for a copy of all my numbers from all the blood tests that i have done the week before i see him. I am just cofused because he didnt tell me that my cramps and spasms and joint pain would be sooo much worse than before i started the vit D. I have read that graves can cause osteoporosis and since there is no way to know how long i've had graves should i be tested for it?
My TSH was 'normal' as well. I finally found a doctor who would test my thyroid antibodies and found out I have Hashimoto's. Parathyroid disease symptoms mimic Hashimoto's symptoms. If you have a history of thyroid disease in the family, then yes, you do have a higher risk of getting Hashi or Graves disease.
Your symptoms sound more like hypothyroidism, usually caused by Hashi.
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.
It should be pointed out that, especially in the US literature, the term ‘hashitoxicosis’ is sometimes used to describe an autoimmune thyroid disease overlap syndrome of Graves’ and Hashimoto’s disease.2 In this article the term is strictly limited to the ‘leakage’ symptoms of active Hashimoto’s disease."
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I've had both Hashi's and Graves antibodies simultaneously but I had been diagnosed with Hashimoto's thyroiditis previously.
Graves Disease is an Autoimmune Disease and usually when one autoimmune disease is found, there is usually a 2nd one found (this one being Diabetes).
The Graves and Hyperthyroidism can be treated by either anti-thyroid meds or pernmanant treatment which will eventually stablaise the Diabetes although this is extremely hard if the Diabetes has been undetected for a long time.
And something to watch for is ...Metformin can interefer with thyroid medications.
I was recently diagnosed with Graves Disease which is an autoimmune disease associated with ur thyroid. I have noticed that I'm needing more pain meds than normal to relieve my pain. My question is, does this disease affect the relief I am supposed 2 be receiving from my normal dose? Basically, does my pain meds need to be increased or does my thyroid affect the digestion process of the meds?
All of your labs are over the reference ranges (except TSH) and indicate that you have hyperthyroidism, of which Graves Disease is the main cause and since your TSI is definitely positive, that would be your diagnosis.
Some people do have, both, Hashimoto's and Graves Disease at the same time, with one or the other dominant...
Are you on med for your osteoporosis? I've had osteopenia for quite a few years and have been on a dosage of calcium and have actually begun to turn it around and rebuild some of the bone I had lost. I'm not sure that can happen with full blown osteoporosis or not, but it might be worth looking into.
Graves is an autoimmune disease and unfortunately for life. Controlling whether they raise or suppress is key to beating the symptoms of the disease.
If you are on Levo now - your labs must be abnormal and now lean towards hypoT levels. You would feel like cr@p right now with the swinging patterns you have been on.
"Once Graves.... always Graves" is the saying here. But I am positive your endo or ???
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