[Denise321]

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Hello. I am 38 years old. My previous doctor accidentally found out I had Grave’s Disease in 2000 while checking my thyroid level due to extreme morning sickness. After my pregnancy, in November of 2000, my endocrine doctor gave me RAI. He then told me that everything would be fine now, and that I would just need a replacement thyroid hormone for the rest of my life. Believing for years and years that Grave’s would have no effect on my life, I have been suffering in my own silent hell. My memory is gone. I write a grocery list, and I leave without the list. Then I get to my car and I have completely forgot where I was going. I had to start writing the days on the canned cat food so I could remember when I would be out. I have zero concentration. I have begun pretending to concentrate, and I even act like I am watching a tv show, but I can’t focus. I have ran out of gas twice recently because I forget I need it. I was walking down my outside stairs this morning, about 20 of them, and I suddenly forgot how to walk down the stairs. I have lost 4 really good jobs in the past 5 years because I have been increasingly losing my ability to focus, and my memory loss. I work in accounting and would forget the formulas to get the answers. At this point it is greatly affecting my life. Is anyone who has had Grave’s for a long period of time being treated with medication for concentration and memory loss? Is it helping? Or am I just some crazy person drifting away to Neverland?

Thank you in advance for any answers. – Denise ” title=”Confused” />

[Bobbi]

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Well, something is wrong. That you know. But what you don’t know is why. When our thyroid hormone levels are out-of-whack we can have focus issues/memory issues. So, are your thyroid levels normal or not? If they are at the fringe (either high or low) you might want to talk to your endocrinologist about "tweaking" the dose to see if it makes a difference. When this same sort of thing was happening to me, my endo added T3 (cytomel) to my daily hormone dose. It seemed to work for a while, but then adversely affected my heart and I had to go off it. The big "BUT" was that my focus issues were the same when I went off the T3. So, it wasn’t necessarily what had helped.

But IF you have been talking with your doctor about your hormone levels being off, and he/she is responding "it’s not your thyroid," then you really need to push a bit and say something like, "OK, then what IS it???" Because it doesn’t much matter if it isn’t thyroid, but it does matter that you find out what is wrong. Sometimes our doctors stop thinking about the issue when they say, "It’s not your thyroid." So you need to get them to continue looking for answers. I do wish you luck,

[Denise321]

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I am positive it is my Grave’s. The doctor just took my blood and tested me for everything even b-12. My thyroid level was too low so they increased my dose of Levoxyl from 150mcg a day to 200mcg a day. I have noticed no change at all. I believe it is going to be Grave’s related memory loss and cognitive ability loss. I’m just hoping to find a medication that can help with that. I am going to go back to the doctor’s office and BEG to see a different doctor. Thank you, Bobbi.

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