[Bobbi]

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Hi, sooty, and welcome to our board.

If you have had a low TSH for six years, out-of-range low, then your fatigue could well be due to excess levels of thyroid hormone. It wipes us out to have too much thyroid hormone.

We do get healthy again: the treatments work to bring our thyroid levels down to normal. Once they are controlled at normal, our bodies have a chance to heal from the damage done while we were hyperthyroid. It can take some time, and we do often need to work with the process, but you should expect to feel better as the treatment works and your body heals.

[Harpy]

#1064541

Sooty
In addition to what Bobbi has mentioned above treatment will definately help your body to begin healing, but I’d just like to add nutrition & stress management play a big part in the healing process.
As well as working with your doctor/endochronologist, if you can afford it it would be worthwhile tracking down a Naturopath/nutritionist who has had experience dealing with CFS and/or Graves and other Thyroid disorders. If you have had the disorder for quite a while your body is probably lacking in a variety of essential elements, I’m sure you probably have a long list of test results and you will need all the information you can get to determine what you need to help you heal.
My partner has had graves for 3.5 years and in addition to the antithyroid medication (PTU) during that period, in the last 6 months she has made major changes to her lifestyle & diet and a supplement program put together with the aid of a naturopath and is taking a range of vitamins, essential elements, bone matrix support, iron and a variety of others, for the muscle fatigue & brain fog she has also been taking 1/g day Acetyl L Carnitine & 100mg/ day of Co Enzyme Q10 and has had major improvements in the 6 months, nothing instant just slow such that you don’t realise anything has changed until you think about the last time you noticed a particular pain or symptom. She was already on the path to healing before she started on the nutritional/lifestyle program, but feels she would have been further down the path if she had made these changes sooner.
But as I said before any Treatment plan needs to be tailored to your current body situation by someone with appropriate knowledge.

[sooty22]

#1018400

i have had chronic fatigue syndrome for 13 years and been vertually house bound , i was slowly improving and emigrated to australia in oct for better lifestyle. i had been told tsh low since 2004 in the uk but nothing was everdone. i feel so tired and think the added stress of moving from uk to australia has either given me a masive relapse or my thyriod is makingme feel so tired. I had blood work redone and radioactive scan and it showed graves disease so i might have had it since 2004. I am so tired want to sleep all day and legs ache and anxious. will treatment get rid of this tiredness? any info wouid be good. thanks

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