[Kimberly]

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Hi gatorgirly – Hopefully, you will get some other responses from others who have experienced hypO. I do know that I’ve heard from a couple of patients who still had heat intolerance, even after being treated with RAI or surgery, but I haven’t heard a good medical explanation for that.

Take care!

[Leahrae]

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Hello Gatorgirly when did your RAI treatment/how long did it take for you to go hypo?

Leah

[gatorgirly]

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I had RAI in February 2011 and it took exactly six months to go hypo. I was only hypo for about 3 weeks.

[jpheather]

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I’m currently experiencing a mix of hypo and hyper symptoms. Was diagnosed about 2 years ago with Graves, T3 and T4 slowly going down into normal range, but not steady, labs bouncing around. TSH finally starting going up with Dec 2011 labs, and was 2.9 in March (very old labs suggest that my normal might be around 0.80). I’ve been oscillating between hypo symptoms (migraines, constipation, freezing cold) and hyper (waking up sweating, dry eyes) every few days.

So we changed from dosing twice per day (7.5 mg methimazole split into 2 doses) to 5 mg in the evening only.

Now I’m sleeping great, but waking up with a migraine, or the feeling that one is going to arrive soon. But I still have some hot flashes and the dry eyes.

It sure seems to me like there is a hypo/hyper war going on inside of me! If it continues much longer I may talk to my endo about taking 3/4 tablet at night and 1/4 in the morning.

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