Graves disease in australia
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Hello. I'm 36 and I am almost 9 weeks pregnant. I have Graves' disease and had radiation treatment back in 2009. I hadn't been taking my thyroxine constantly for a few months as I was super stressed and now that I am pregnant haven't missed a dose. My thyroid levels are still very high and I'm worried that this will affect my baby's brain development/IQ levels. Has anyone else had similar experiences? I'm scared and worried.
The antibody test results you posted above, are both markers for Hashimoto's. While Hashimoto's is, typically, associated with hypothyroidism, early stages are often characterized by periods of hyperthyroidism swinging to hypo and even normal, before settling into permanent hypo.
You need Thyroid Stimulating Immunoglobulin (TSI) to diagnose Graves Disease and you don't have that one. Graves is always associated with hyper.
What symptoms do you have?
FT3 (3.5-6.5)
TSH (.05 - 4.00)
FT4 (10.0 - 19.0 )
Post yr Labs here so others can comment and try and help.
What are the results of your most recent thyroid blood tests? Please post them and be sure to include reference ranges, which vary lab to lab and have to come from your own report.
Have you been tested for either Graves Disease or Hashimoto's Thyroiditis? Graves Disease is always associated with hyperthyroidism, but not all hyperthyroidism is Graves Disease. The definitive test for Graves Disease is Thyroid Stimulating Immunoglobulin.
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!
I am new to this as well. From what I have researched and read here, it sounds like you might have Graves Disease. Research it on the net. When you go for your test, be sure to have a full panel thyroid screen checking especiall for TSI (antibodies for Graves), TSH, Free T4 & Free T3. Like I said, I am new here but I feel pretty sure that others here will say the same thing or close to it. I hope you get the answers you are looking for.
once you have an autoimmune disease, you have it for life. The most you can hope for is remission. You had Graves disease and your thyroid was removed because it produced too much hormones; however, removal of the thyroid means you have no hormones of your own, which is why you were put on the thyroxine - to replace what you could no longer produce.
] When tests are done in places where a disease is rare or absent (for example, Lyme disease in Australia), many positive tests will be falsely positive. [Faulty logic, basing the premise on the conclusion -- we don't have Lyme in Australia, therefore any positive tests are erroneous.]
The tests to diagnose Lyme disease are technically complex and require specialist expertise.
Hey, Doc~
I'm sure you understand that it isn't just any tick that will produce Lyme disease after having bitten someone. You know that they are deer ticks that have been infected, and hence carry the disease. I'm sorry about the cat. My goodness! But there's no way to tell if the tick that latched onto kitty infected the cat with Lyme or something else. (Not saying it can't have been Lyme!)
I found a site that says Lyme was first documented in Australia in 1980.
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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