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ELenorelle,
Welcome and I am so sorry you are feeling so horrible and scared. I can not say yes or no that you have Graves disease. BUT I can say it sounds like it and it should surely be checked out by a dr.(Endocrinologist).You say you are not in agreement with some of the blood tests that he wants to do, which ones and why?
Are you waiting for an appointment with an Endocrinologist or general dr.?
Who did the blood work and put you on meds, General dr or the ER?It is 10pm here in USA, New Jersey. Most here work and are sleeping right now, please know that when they come in they will post to your thread. I’m just up late.
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You’re on the right track of finding out what is wrong and not giving up and questioning things that don’t make sense. So keep up the good work! You came to the right place, there is a lot of information here and lots of advice!!
Hi! My name is Elanorelle and I need help….I am new here because i think something is wrong with my thyroid.
if you can assist me that would be great:) I am in Victoria BC, CanadaNice to meet you all BTW:)
I had my TSH checked and it was lower than 0.006 ie…very very low. My free
T4 and free T3 is normal. I had bad heart palpatations two weeks ago…nervousness,,,jitteryness…and almost ended up in the hospital. i am on a Beta blocker to control my symptoms of very high heart rate and PVCs. My sitting heart rate was 110bmp it is now 59 and I feel great and all my muscular strength has come back and I have stamina and don’t feel like passing out any more. they did an antibody test and found nothing. I have no eye symptoms and I gained weight but still had a crazy appetite…if I had a low metabolism I would be 400 lbs now! I would eat everything! but I didn’t lose weight because I was bed ridden do to a leg injury. I am hypervigilant…extreme nervousnessness..tremor, shaking..all controlled with Bisoprolol. I am awaiting a Dr’s appointment because I don’t agree with some of the blood results. I take no meds for thyroid. Can anyone help me? do I have graves?We can’t say what’s going on with you ~ it sounds VERY complicated ~ but we are certainly familiar with the symptoms you describe! I can only pass along strength to get through this, and kudos for continuing the fight to figure out what the heck is going on! It’s important for us always to be our own advocate, don’t let anyone sweep you out the door because they didn’t find what they were looking for ~ the next question should be "so where do we go NEXT to find out what’s going on??"
I would suggest that you get your own copies of ALL the test results. You’re the patient, they belong to you. With your TSH reading so low, it would be interesting to see whether the T4/T3 levels were within the normal range, yet close to the very top of that normal range. The normal range is enormous, and the reason for that is there are people around the globe who have widely varying T4/T3 thyroid hormone levels, yet all are deemed "normal." If your normal is typically lower in the range, being near the top would indicate an abnormality FOR YOU. If you had T4/T3 tests done earlier in your life, it would be very interesting to compare the most recent results to those.
If you are lucky enough NOT to have Graves’, and it IS hyperthyroidism you’re experiencing, there’s a chance it is simply thyroiditis and it will resolve on its own. I’ll hope for that for you.
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