Hyperthyroidism (overactive thyroid)- what were YOUR symptoms—no online cut & paste references please!?
I’m not looking for a cut and paste of symptoms off webmd. I’ve already looked at typical symptoms of hyperthyroidism, so I REALLY need people’s personal experiences.
What sort of symptoms did you experience? Anything bizarre, like spells of muscle tension or weakness? Chills? Fogginess, dizziness? Please share your experience!
feeling very tired, hard to wake up in the mornings, racing heart, elevated pulse, sweating more than normal, feeling irritable and narky, feeling hungry all the time, putting on some weight even though was training hard, tender muscles (if I got a light leg massage would hurt!), dry skin, hair and nails growing faster than normal!
All under control now as I got treatment, but it can take up to 2 years to put right.
It made my throat feel like it was racing….
It took them 3yrs to actually diagnosed it, because it was coming and going…. in the mean time I felt like poo… all the time…My racing feeling would last a couple of hours and then be gone. so when I would tell the doctor, they would test and it would show neg….. so one morning I woke up and my neck felt like it was racing again, I called the Dr. office and said I’m coming in Now. and they finally caught it when it was spiking, and now I’m on meds
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my test shows:_____________unit_______normal range
T4 220 ——————————– micg/dl____ 60 – 160
T3 2.7 ——————————– ng/dl ______0.5 – 3.6
TSH 4.3 —————————– MicU/L ____0.3 – 3.5
What does these mean, hyperthyroid???
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feeling very tired, hard to wake up in the mornings, racing heart, elevated pulse, sweating more than normal, feeling irritable and narky, feeling hungry all the time, putting on some weight even though was training hard, tender muscles (if I got a light leg massage would hurt!), dry skin, hair and nails growing faster than normal!
All under control now as I got treatment, but it can take up to 2 years to put right.
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Insomnia was my only problematic symptom. That’s what sent me to the doctor to try to get help. I would go 4 days at a time without sleeping.
I hindsight, I had most of the other symptoms too, but I had had Grave’s disease for so long that I thought that all of the other symptoms were normal, or just a result of aging or being out of shape.
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diagnosed with graves disease.
anxiety attacks, constantly eating w/o weight gain, muscle weakness/loss, couldn’t exercise anymore, rapid heart rate (wake up all the time bc of rapid heart rate), constant diarrhea, hair loss, anger for no good reason, severe memory loss, unfocused, skin rashes, felt hot even if the room temp was low.
heavy and then no periods. i felt absolutely insane and sick.
could not absorb nutrition.
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