Hello and welcome – We are fellow patients here, not doctors, so we can’t give advice on dosing or medications.
However, hopefully, those who have taken steroids can chime in with their personal experiences as to whether the meds made anxiety worse.
Anxiety can come from having thyroid levels out of balance or from an underlying anxiety disorder – or both.
This video from our 2012 Patient Conference in San Diego on “The Emotional Aspects of Graves’ Disease” might be of interest:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB8_5rbCso8
If you don’t see some relief soon, definitely contact your doctor’s office again for further direction.
Take care – and keep us posted!
