Hypothyroidism :: Radioiodine Treatment - Was Hyper Now Hypo
Jan 4, 2010
After feeling desperately unwell for 3 months I was diagnosed in March 09 with an overactive thyroid and was advised to have radioiodine treatment and as expected I am now under active. My experience with symptoms since is much the same as you are all reporting on this site. As the thyroxine has been gradually increased from 25 initially up to 75 about a month ago I have swung from weeks of feeling progress is being made to days of despair that I will ever feel back to normal again. My question today is about the sensations in my head, in particular the left side. I have palpitations, tingling, burning feeling, sounds, like bubbles bursting in one ear. feeling of movement/jerkiness. All these symptoms appear to be more pronounced in the morning when waking and also when resting after any moving about. I also have moments of feeling out of balance/nausea, and an inability to concentrate. My endo says I just need to adjust to the dosage but I can't help feeling that these heady symptoms could suggest something else is going on. Anyone out there had anything similar?
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My wife's TSH - 1.7, T3-5.5 and T4 13.5 is it hypo or hyperthyroid. please help her. she has been using Thyrox 75mcg earlier. Now the doctor has advised to switch to thyrox 88mcg. Her symptoms are severe hair fall, weight gain, fatigue, constipation etc.
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My TSH level came back 0.298. My Levothyroxine was changed from 125 mcg to 112 mcg. Am I hypo or hyper?
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I am a 41 year old female. 3 months ago, I was told I was Hypo. I was put on Levothroxine, 75mg. I just recently had my blood draw and it came back- TSH 0.006 (L) and T3 14. (H) and T4 4.44 (H) I am now thinking I am Hyper. I have been loosing a lot of weight and also my bowel movements are always diarrhea in the mornings. Six months ago I weighed 106 now I am 101. So my question is do I stop taking Levothyroxine if I am Hyper? I will be making an appointment next week with a new doctor.
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I started on carbimazole about 3 weeks ago after being diagnosed with an overactive thyroid. I was ok at first, but have now developed a bad throat (not sore as such, but dry and tickly - very irritating). The meds say that you should see your doctor immediately if you get these symptoms, so I am now also on antibiotics which don't seem to be helping. I'm also quite achy, and even climbing a flight of stairs seems to take a lot of effort. Should I be worried?
It's all very annoying as I have taken such good care of myself recently, losing 2 and 1/2 stone and eating really well. All in preparation for trying to get pregnant, and I'm now unsure how well that is going to go. I know overactive can affect your fertility, but I don't know how all the drugs will have an effect (or be harmful if I do get pregnant). Unfortunately, the doctor appears to be completely disregarding this aspect of my life and is not offering any advice. Still waiting to see the specialist - maybe he/she will be more helpful.
I'm also concerned I spend 18 months on this drug and it doesn't help. Wouldn't I be better getting the radioiodine and putting off trying to get pregnant for 6 months to a year since at least I will have some certainty over the outcome of the radio?
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I was wondering... can a non-type 2 get a hypo? My sister says she can't get a hypo. She was just diagnosed with type 1 not too long ago. She seems to think that sense she is insulin dependent that she won't have hypos since her blood sugars are always high. I think she may still have hypos at some point.
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I was just diagnosed with hyperthyroid after plenty of scans, blood work ,etc, Had my needle biopsy come clean as far as no cancer found, I have all the classic hyper symptoms,....tired yet wired. Anyway, my first thought after getting my biopsy results was ' great, I can go on meds and feel better soon'. Wrong. My referred Endoc. Either wants me to do RAI or surgery to remove 1/2 my thyroid. He claims that if the dose of RAI is small enough to where it will target the hot nodule which is spitting out excess hormones causing me to be hyper,.....and that my chances of becoming hypo after RAI in this case are very small, Everything I've read about RAI says otherwise, Why can't I be treated with meds? Just looking for opinions in hopes someone is familiar with hot nodule treatments, I'm new to all this, and learning as I go, I'd love any input from you all, How many have sought 2nd opinions?
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After 13 ish weeks off work with back pain I visited an osteopath who finally told me I have a problem with my facet joints caused by my hyper lordosis. I've been given exercises but that's about it, looking to try and find out if anyone else has experienced this and has any advice? I can't do anything through the day without being confined to the couch in the evening in a lot of pain. I'm doing yoga to try and help too but I have a holiday to Florida booked for September and the last thing I want is it ruined by being in so much pain.
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I'm looking for advice. My 60 year old father (who has had HCV for more than 10 years; previously treated with Interferon but bad side effects) finished his 12 week Sofosbuvir+Daclatasvir (considered same as Harvoni) treatment a month ago. Already first tests after 2 weeks showed virus was Undetected, but yesterday he received his most recent results and he has a relapse of the virus. He is genotype 1, fibroscan result 4 (close to final stage). He is based in Poland and I'm not sure if our doctors are fully informed of the new generation medications and HCV itself.
Is anyone able to give us any advice? We are pretty desperate and my dad is just so depressed as he thought he finally got rid of the virus (he got infected while on an operation in a public hospital) and now it is back...
Are there any specialists that you are aware of I could possibly get in contact with?
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A few weeks ago my bf noticed some bumps in his pubic area. He went to the dermatologist and was diagnosed with molluscum contagiosum, which is thankfully not that big of a deal! He got his treated with cryotherapy. Around this time I noticed a few bumps and because of the area they were in, went to an OBGYN for treatment so my bf and I don't keep spreading it to each other. The OB GYN agreed that they were also MC bumps and lightly scraped each one, then applied an acid treatment. That was a few days ago and while the bumps are mostly gone, the skin surrounding each one is dark and almost looks like a scab in color. Is this normal post acid treatment?
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Does anyone here relapse after harvoni treatment?
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Have had hypothyroidism for 10 yrs. 2 yrs ago started with lots of joint/pain/tenderness and extreme tiredness. Had blood tests to check thyroid function - told that my symptoms were because I was on too high a dose of levothyroxine (125mcg). Told to reduce to (100mcg). Done this. Symptoms lot worse now and just been diagnosed as having fibromyalgia but I am so tired etc. and my symptoms are very much like when I was hypo and was awaiting a diagnosis - very dry skin, hair loss etc. (I have no record of my function test results so I cannot gauge what the pattern has been) Anyone else who has hypo and has been diagnosed with fibromyalgia? I cannot help but wonder if my symptoms are more to do with inadequate treatment for hypothyroid than fibromyalgia. Any ideas please?
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I have been on meds for just over a year now, tsh now down to 0.62 was 69 when diagnosed have made lifestyle changes as in reduced working hours started on 150mg then put down to 100mg now back up to 125 mg I do feel better but still get very tired and anxious about the silliest of things almost paranoid have no self confidence or sex drive (just as well I'm single) have zero interest in a social life and will make any excuse to avoid going out apart from going to work, the mother of ones of my sons friends is hypo and her gp prescribed antidepressants alongside her meds just wondered if anyone has any thoughts on this due to see GP again next week and thinking of asking if I may have a touch of depression.
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I have hypothyroidism and take Synthroid daily. Recent blood work done in Dec. 2015, shows that my anion gap is low (3) - normal range is (5-15 mmol/L) My protein serum is 5.9 within the normal range of 5.6 - 7.9 g/dl and albumin is 3.7 with a range of 3.5 - 4.9 g/dl. These tests did show that I have iron deficiency anemia, and the CBC panel had lots of highs and lows. When I looked back over blood results that I had done a year ago, my anion gap was 7 and I now noticed my Vitamin D level was insufficient (22 ng/ml). Other than the iron deficiency, my doctor hasn't addressed any of these other results. Last years blood tests were done at my request because I had concerns about recurring sinus infections, and I had mentioned to the the doctor that my grandmother, her son and her brother all died of multiple myeloma. The IgA test done last year was in the normal range (271 mg/dl) Should I have additional blood work and if so what tests should be done?
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I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism when I was 14, and since then i have been taking Levothyroxine to help with it. I am wondering, will I need to take levothyroxine forever? Or is there a fix for thyroid problems? I don't see my weight going down at all, or my thyroid level. My doctor has been increasing the dosage of my levothyroxine, and has three times now. I recently got Levothyroxine in 0.137mg dosage, and it smells terrible. My old ones were 0.125mg. Is this a very small change, and will it even do anything?
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Anyone else develop hypothyroidism soon after having the MMR vaccine as an adult?
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I hear these go hand in hand and wondered if anyone who is following a gluten free diet has actually gotten better thyroid results without the meds?
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I have been on hypothyroid for long after I had total thyroidectomy in 2008. Recent test indicate that my hypothyroid is now euthyroid and normal. Yet my blood pressure remain very high. 180/100. What medication do you recommend. I am presently on 50mg levothyroxine. I am restless all day.
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Have had seizures for 74 years. They are under control yet. I feel bad today, so I will try and be back tomorrow.
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When I was sixteen, I started to display all of the symptoms of Glandular Fever. Two years went by until the doctors finally diagnosed me with Hypothyroidism. At this point, my thyroid levels were that bad, that I looked bloated, had ballooned to a size 18 and became very ill. As you can imagine, being 5'2 the weight started to affect my back/ joints etc. which just added insult to injury.
The doctors started me on 150 micrograms of Levothyroxine, which was then increased to 200. I went down to a size 10/12 and felt happy, healthy and fit. I had so much energy and found myself wanting to work out once, sometimes twice a day. The positivity came from nowhere, my skin felt great, my hair felt strong and the weight seemed to melt away.
I'm now 22 and I am feeling depressed, tired all of the time, I have no energy to work out and I find myself forgetting things all of the time. I find myself asking how I've ended up back where I started. I'm still on 200 micrograms of thyroxine - but I've now been diagnosed with Polycystic Ovaries.
I just feel like I'm getting nowhere, I'm back to a size 18, I don't feel confident, I just feel like this condition is destroying my life and there's nothing I can do about it. I try to push myself to exercise, but I just don't have the energy. I work full time and by the time I get home I am far too tired to move. I go straight to sleep, sometimes without eating. So how am I putting on weight?
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I feel breathless or more accurately have a sensation of not being able to get my breath properly. I find this very depressing as it all makes me feel afraid.
I have just been diagnosed with multinodular goitre as this was an incidental finding on a CTPA scan report nothing has yet been done by way of blood tests .
However having written that some bloods were taken but by a different speciality. I am awaiting the results. I am also awaiting an appt to see endo surgeon and endo physician. Today is a bad day due to subjective sensation of sob. Also have some neck and shoulder pain and slight irritating cough which comes and goes.
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