My name is Lisa, and i was just diagnosed with graves disease about 3 months ago, and before i was diagnosed I didnt know what was wrong with me.I started swaeting at night, bad heart palpitations, my hands were shakey, I couldnt remember minor things.It took me a while before i went to the doctors I’m 46 so I thought it was maybe the start of menopause. But I took my mom for her checkup at our family’s doctors office mind you I haven’t seen him in a while, so he says to me he notices that my neck was very swollen,so i had my blood drawn and my numbers were so high I went to see my endo and she sent me for the uptake scan and she confirmed it is graves disease. Normal #s for the scan is 30 mines was 80. I had my RAI treatment a few weeks ago feeling fine my throat is shrinking just waiting to go for my b/w she said once i go into that transistion of going hypo i will be taking synthroid. has anybody taken it before and what are the side effects. hang in there.
