[mamabear]

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Hyedi, Hello and welcome!!!
Are you still on medication maintaining your levels or are you off of your medicine with proper levels? I ask because remission is when you are off of your medicine and are maintaining proper levels.

Either way, on medicine or not if your levels are within a good range you should be feeling fine BUT there is recovery period and time. Your body has to get better from feeling so lousy. So if you just started to feel better and your levels are good it will take some time for you to be at 100% again. PLUS you have to take into consideration that you have a 3 year old that you are running after and cleaning up after and doing all the mommy things we do and that will surely make even the healthiest of women fatigued.

If your lymph node(s) are acting up I would say that there might be a virus or allergies brewing and you should see your general dr. If he feels that there might be something to do with your thyroid I’m sure he’ll pull blood for tests.

Exercise, drinking plenty of water and eating the right foods helps with the fatigue. (check with your dr. about exercise before hand).

If I am wrong someone will help correct me but as far as I know as long as we are in remission(I am), our symptoms are gone unless of course our eyes were affected and that might not go away fully. If you have had plenty of time to recover and are truly in remission for a length of time you should be feeling fine from Graves’ disease. Since you have a child I’d say that being tired, not getting enough sleep, diet and exercise are all factors in how you feel right now. We can still get sick even if we don’t touch anything at the stores ” title=”Wink” /> .

I do this to help with keeping the virus’ down in my home. I have 4 kids and two go to school, those two and anyone else that enters the house washes their hands before they do anything.
When I am out at the store with any of them we all come home and wash hands to two rounds of alphabet song.
I wash light switches, door knobs and toilet handles often to keep the ickies away. Since your dd is about 3 or will be 3 soon I would make sure you take her to the bathroom when she comes home and wash her hands for her so she learns to do that. My boys are 14 & 6 and my girls will be 5 & 3 soon. (dd2 will be 3 in august,she was a 2006 too!).

Stay away from junk food and sugars they tend to load us down with feeling over full and that depresses us.

Keep up the good work, I’m in remission too. ALmost 2years and no meds!!!! It can happen!!!

[Hyedi]

#1019432

I was diagnosed with Graves Disease 3 months after having my youngest daughter in 2006. Thankfully I am in remission after a long road of medication.
My question is, will a person in remission still get the symptoms of Graves Disease, such as irritability, swollen lymph nodes (usually only one side at a time), fatique, insomnia?
I do get my thyroid checked regularly, and it has been in check (knock on wood), but I still seem to get bouts of sickness, for example, the past two days my left side of my neck is swollen and very painful. Is this normal?
Am I eating a certain food that triggers the symptoms?
Feeling desperate at this point and frustrated. Thanks for any advice.
Hyedi

[Ski]

#1071628

During remission it is possible to have periods of time when symptoms recur a bit ~ blood tests are the "gold standard" at that point, so if your levels are good (I’ll knock wood for you too), then it’s possible you’re just experiencing a little "spike" due to other things, and it is not enough to get you out of remission. I had not heard that lymph node swelling was a GD symptom, though. The thyroid itself can swell (a goiter) when our levels are imbalanced on either side, hypo or hyper, but lymph nodes would probably be something separate.

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