[Peter]

#1069029

HI Chesney,

The Board allows you to say what you feel. You’ll find so many members who can encourage you, support you, and help you.

No matter what happened in the past, you can overcome that. Now that you know Graves’ disease was a factor in some of your decisions – look at the positives and take it one step at a time. I am sure your family, friends and even us long distance will support you to rebuild your confidence.

Are you seeing anyone whether its a medical professional or counselor to overcome your addictions?

WE CARE!

Peter

[ewmb]

#1069030

Welcome to the board. This is a great group who really support each other. Graves can really make things sticky in lots of ways so it’s great that you recognize that. Have you made any decisions on treatment for your graves yet? There are lots of great posts about the three choices: surgery, radioactive iodine and antithyroid medications. Ask anything you want to here. Someone will have had a similar enough experience themselves or with someone in their family who has graves. It really helps to know that you’re not alone.

ewmb

[Hopeful23]

#1069031

Glad you found us.

Don’t ever feel embarrassed about how your feeling, what your dealing with/facing. We are here to support you and give you strength and determination. The facilitators are amazing and have great sources and referecences to help you. STAY STRONG. WELCOME:)

Hopeful23

[chesney1]

#1019072

I was checking out information on graves today and it looks like its common for it to start in your twenties. Well that is the time I really started having problems in my life. I never had problems with alcohol but drugs were a different story. Its like they somehow they made me feel normal. I just was diagnosed with graves last Nov and I’m 35 now and I’m thinking if I would have just been tested those 2 times i was in rehab maybe i could have saved me and my family some heartache or maybe I’m just looking for an excuse for how I acted and how I’m feeling. Ya’ll dont know how hard it was to write this I’m terribly embarrassed about being an addict.

[RhondaG4]

#1069032

Hi and welcome to the board!!!

I was told once by a councelor that feeling aren’t right or wrong…they just are what we are feeling at the time. You’d be surprised by what we all share here, we don’t judge each other, just vent and share. Sometimes there are some that have been thru what your going thru or have been thru, and the pearls of wisdom you’ll gain here are great. Again….welcome!!!!

Hugs Rhonda

[cathycnm]

#1069033

Chesney – From here, you can get stronger than ever. Welcome.

[hyperm]

#1069034

HI Chesney,

Welcome! Firstly, can I just say the fact that you can come on here and be so honest shows how strong a person you and also that you are an honest person. I am sorry to hear that you have had drug abuse issues in the past. Do you receive continued support for that?

I hear what you are saying with regards to the possibility of an earlier diagnosis may have prevented relapses- doubt you will ever know for sure. I heard from a very wise person once that forgiveness in any form can be hard but the hardest person to forgive is yourself.

I have a great endo who is very empathetic and recognises how mood is altered in this condition and complete personality changes happen. I was one of them ” title=”Wink” /> He told me that at one stage when I had the TS that I would have gotten off for murder my levels were so bad I wasn’t in control of myself – that obviously doesn’t account for everyone but he was demonstrating YES I was going off my head but it was all due to physical hormones.

The main thing is you have been diagnosed…..You are on treatment (?) and you have us to help you through. Please free to share your stories as someone pointed out sometimes its not always graves related but more how people are struggling with life while feeling so ill.

mx

[chesney1]

#1069035

Thank you for your very supportive responses. Someone asked what line of treatment I’m on. Right now I’m taking methimazole for thyroid, ambien for sleep, topamax for migraines, and cymbalta for depression and anxiety. My mother acts like I’m taking the whole pharmacy and its going to cause an overdose. But taking all this I really cant say I feel better. I still want to yell at anything my children do. My husband thinks I’m not the same person. Maybe I should see a therapist.

[Ski]

#1069036

Graves’ takes a while to recover from, so please give yourself a break during this time. If your medications are helping you sleep and keeping your anxiety levels down, that is EXTREMELY important right now. When we are hyperthyroid, our body is literally under attack every minute of the day. That causes harm in all sorts of ways, and it takes a good long time to heal. In addition to that, we don’t even begin to heal until our thyroid hormone levels are normal, and stable, so just remember that you’re being treated, it’s getting better, but you are NOT well yet, and no one (not even you) should expect that.

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