Graves disease and neuropathy
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Okay, I'm 24 years old. I have 2 children, one adopted 7 year-old daughter and an 8-month old son. I was recently diagnosed with Graves' disease but have no underwent tx as of yet. I am otherwise healthy, slightly underweight, no drugs/ alcohol, no everyday medication, etc. I can remember having these pains (less traumatic) for some time now, but more recently, I have had this extremely sharp, crippling quick pain that begins on my right upper arm and radiates to my head area.
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.
I want to add something I just came across. Both my surgeon and my pain Dr don't think the nerve issues (Peripheral Neuropathy) I have is completely related to my injury/surgery on my neck. Some of my nerve issues are in the legs and feet. I just did a quick search and found a link to Graves and Peripheral Neuropathy. Now I'm really stunned about all the connections and even more frustrated my 4 Dr's (Ortho, Neuro, Pain and Primary) have not made the connection.
Hello, I'm 22 year old male who was diagnosed with Hashimoto's 2 years ago. All was fine, I didn't need to take any pills, then this month I went to my endocrinologist and she prescribed me Methizol pills for Grave's disease since my FT3 was 6.14 (range 3.34-5.14), a bit too high.
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?
d with ischemic optic neuropathy in 2007. I also have had orbital decompression surgery due to Graves eye disease. Three to Four months following my orbital decomp. surgery, I had speech slurring for two weeks and then my right eye became very blurry. My eye test for my right eye was 20/70, 6 months later it was back to 20/40.
she gave me morphine s0415 yet when after a month - even though i still have pain i cannot get the VA womens clinic to respond to me;just that i have to wait for my next appt on sept 1.
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 ???
Usually, surgery is the preferable option if someone has Graves thyroid disease (because RAI can sometimes make eye disease worse if already present). Graves Eye Disease is caused by different antibodies than the thyroid disease. They are related, but having one doesn't necessarily mean you'll get the other.
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