Graves disease and itchy skin
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Having horrible itchy skin, ear eczema and hyperpigmentation all over my skin. Damn Drs only want to run tsh. I tremor all the time and my legs are so weak. They take my Levi up and my tah goes low. Please help. Don't know where to turn. Graves on my family but no doctor will listen. Is there a test to check for graves without a thyroid?
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?
Hi, I am a 28 year old woman and was diagnosed with graves disease 3 years ago. I have commented o many forums regarding my problem but would like your advice. I was treated with radio active iodine in 2006 and then became hypothyroid, I now take 150mg of levothyroxine daily. I have never suffered from graves opthalmology as far as i'm aware.
For the last 6 months I have had a chronic daily headache. This started 3 days after purchasing new glasses.
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.
The one symptom that has my doctor stumped is that I seem to be sensitive to a lot of foods now. My doctor doubts it's food allergies.
If you had a solid Dx of Graves Disease a while back and some endo is telling you to stop eating cheese burgers. I think it's time to move on to a new doctor. Maybe someone you has a better interaction with their patients. Your cholesterol is way out of range. Did anyone treat you for that at least?
It looks as if you have a background in education as a music teacher. I would be singing another tune to a new doctor that would give you the help you really deserve.
The cause of IC is unknown but is a suspected autoimmune disease. Both hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism affects the skin and one of the possible symptom is eczema. Diverticulitis is not an autoimmune disease but is stated to be very common and is usually asymptomatic (no symptoms).
I have Hashimoto's thyroiditis and pernicious anaemia and vitiligo. I'm looking forward to trying LDN.
I was diagnoised with Graves' Disease in 2009. My TSH level was low and my t3 and t4 were high. I had all the symptoms of hyper. It was awful. They did an uptake and found abnormal findings. Was told I needed the RAI-131. Like a good patient I did this and was basically told my only other option was the anti-thyroid meds which could cause many problems and that scared me or surgery and so did that. So I took the radioactive iodine. My gut instinct told me no, but I did anyway.
That is wonderful you had such great results and outcome with your treatment... It is inspiring, to my cynical and jaded way of thinking and feeling about my own Grave's Disease, and like treatment with RAI, I was given in 2001 immendiately after diagnosis of Grave's, but unfortunately my disease has only led to thyroid eye disease and an untreatable, unstabilized Grave's disease....
I suggest you to consult a dermatologist and get a skin biopsy and KOH examination of the skin scrapings done to confirm the diagnosis.
It is very difficult to precisely confirm a diagnosis without examination and investigations and the answer is based on the medical information provided. For exact diagnosis, you are requested to consult your dermatologist. I sincerely hope that helps. Take care and please do keep me posted on how you are doing.
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." - Touch Endocrinology - Hashitoxicosis – Three Cases and a Review of the Literature
There are many comments on this link which you might be interested in reading.
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You could just be dehydrated, but my first graves symptom were dry, groopy eyes and tension in my forehead. Do you have any other symptoms? Increased appetite? Feel jumpy? Tired? Weight loss? family history of thyroid disease? You could always go see your doctor- they have simple ways of testing or just a small blood test. Have a loved one watch your eyes as you follow their finger up and down, if you eyelid lags behind the top of your eyeball it's eyelid lag and a sigh of graves disease.
Hi. I am hoping someone can help me. I found out that I have Graves Disease in May of 2009. I have all the symptoms and I am currently looking for the best procedure for me. I came down with a rash on my back a few months ago. It is an open rash. Now it has spread to my chin and arms. Does anyone know what it can be? I am not on any meds for the Thyroid. It almost looks like Chicken Pox??
This is subclinical hyperthyroidism with an atypical low initial T3 - if it were a secondary hypothyroidism (ie pituitary disease) then would not expect the increase in TSH with relative preservation of T4 and T3 levels. Also the nodules bring up the possibility of functioning nodules and not Graves. Would test TSI & TBII antibodies which are usually high in Graves. Would also complete pituitary eval with prolactin and IGF-1 (growth hormone evaluation).
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!
she said my tsh was 0.00 and that i should come straight in to see her the next am. thus began my graves disease journey. i had RAI in 2000 and slowly but surely with the beta blocker started to feel and think healthy again. did have some collateral damage, my stomach become very, very sensitive and i am now completely gluten intolerant....bummer.
I've been working with My General Doc and ENT and and Endocrinologist. In Dec 2016 I was sick, sore throat, tired etc. My labs came back as Hyperthyroid from my reg Doc and he referred me to the Endocrinologist. After seeing the Endo and about 6 weeks of prednisone I felt pretty good other than the side effects from the medication. So now after several months I feel ok, but still have lower throat pressure, pressure in ears, some neck pains, skin feels somewhat dry and itchy.
I was diagnosed with Graves disease 11 years ago. My endo prescribed Methimazole, which I was allergic to, so he told me he didn't want to prescribe me anything else because sometimes the allergy kills the thyroid. It apparently did, because all of a sudden I was hypo and I had to go on synthroid. Since then, I lost my health insurance and got handled by my PCP instead of the endo (cheaper).
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.
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