Graves disease and rash
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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?
however, as i am preparing for that and writing down all the weird symptoms i have been having these last 13 years (symptoms most doctors have thought related to thyroid only to have the tests always come back normal) and i wonder, i have a recurring bumpy scaly itchy rash that i get under both arms and on my forearm and sometimes at the base of my throat and on my hands, also, inside my ears and no doctor has ever been able to figure out what it is(and ive been to many including dermatologist
By next morning rash had spread to shins and and hands and as day went on it got worse and hosp staff treated and sent me home. When the rash calmed I had signs and symptoms of HYPERTHYOIDISM/ Graves' disease after an hour the rash would flare and both symptoms took hold of my body, it took a week to settle rash and for it to go away but the hyperthyroidism is still present.
I found out via an email that I have Graves' disease . 4 weeks ago I learned I had hyperthyroidism and was placed on methimazole 10mg2x a day. The email for the type came 3 weeks later and it was frightening to read about. I felt exhausted for months had stomach issues and lost 15 pounds in a month.
4 weeks into the medication I have a distended stomach with pains and horrible rashes.
All that said I'm completely stressed about the eye issues that come with graves.
I am a 47 year old femal with Graves disease. I have a ugly rash that started on my back and now has spread after about 2 years to my arms and shins. It looks like tiny pin point somewhat raised rash. They do scab and if the scab is broken it bleeds pretty bad. It actully looks like someone stuck me with pins.
I was also recently diagnosed with a blood infection of yeast (candidia) from an infectious doctor, after a recent admission to the hospital for a kidney infection.
Initially in July when diagnosed I had slight tremors once on thyroid med/tapolzole the shaking got worst and I ended up in the hospital. The endocrinologist said it was Graves/my symptoms. Now that I am in the normal range he says it's not Graves. It is my family doctor that is trying the beta blocker.
I have Graves' disease and get a horrible rash usually in my feet, palms and fingers. It is driving me mad and nothing seems to fix it - I have tried creams for eczema, psoriasis and fungal infections. Anti thyroid meds cleared it for a month or so and now it is back with a vengeance :( Has anyone discovered any successful remedy?
All thyroid levels are within normal range at this time except for the TPO, I am extremely tired, muscle aches and pains, rash all over body (it comes and goes) unable to focus, chronic infections, low grade fever daily.
I was diagnosed with Graves in 2007 but, in remission for the last couple of years.
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.
I came back to being allergic to nothing. We also did a blood tests for my thyroid, cancer, graves disease, and various other diseases. My thyroid levels came back normal but my auto antibodies came back high, over 400. The allergist said that its something we'll just have to monitor, watch my levels, and do 'a step by step' with drugs. Right now she has me on Allegra in the morning, Montelukast Sodium 10mg in the afternoon, and Zyrtec at night. It seems to keep the hives at bay.
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?
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