[snelsen]

#1064377

Hi mourning, are you still getting labs now and then? The first thing that occurs to me is that your Synthroid dose may be too high. I think current labs would be the first step. That happened to me, once. I had been on the same dose for years, and all of a sudden, it was too much, so it was very SLOWLY tapered, with labs spaced about two months apart.
From what you say, if nothing else is going on in your life to cause those symptoms, you could be getting hyper. What is your heart rate? Is it increasing. Are you still seeing a doc now and then for thyroid labs?
Welcome to the board, if this is your first time, if not, welcome back!
Shirley

[mourning]

#1018379

I was treated 7 years age with 2 doses of RAI & I’m now on Synthroid .150 mg. I am recently getting hyper, irritable, angry & unable to sleep. Is it possible that Graves is coming back?

[Kimberly]

#1064378

Hello and welcome to the boards! I agree with Shirley that your first step is to get a new set of labs run to see where your levels are. The problem could be as simple as making a small adjustment to your dose. There *are* very rare cases where Graves’ does recur after RAI or surgery…somehow the thyroid tissue grows back and the auto-antibodies start raging again. In either case, you will definitely want to get a new set of labs run and discuss next steps with your doctor. Since endos sometimes book appointments waaaaay out in the future, perhaps your general practitioner could work with you to get a set of thyroid labs run. If you *are* swinging hypER again, this is certainly something that you will want to catch early.

Best of luck!

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