:” title=”Question” /> Good Morning, well sort of, never really good anymore. I am new to this, but relieved to tears to find others who like myself at struggling with various stages of Graves Disease. I was diagnosed with Graves Disease in March 2009 after my second go around with subclinical thyrotoxicious (still can’t spell it right). My doctor figured the stress from my second total knee replacement which was in February probably triggered the thyroid to go wild again. My TSH on 03/28/09 was <0.004, T4 Free was 2.40 and T3 Free was 627. Wild indeed and I has feeling all the miserable symptoms while trying to recover from the knee surgery. So, long story short, here I am in December, Hyper is in full force — heart pounding, jittery, can’t sleep, muscles weak, eyes bothering, headaches, etc — and looking forward to ablation therapy in January 2010. Question: is this what is referred to as RAI in your other posts? I have been all over the chart with my readings over these last few months. My current readings as of 11/25 are TSH 0.01, T4 Free 1.30, T3 Free 424. The TSH has been as low as <0.004 and as high as 35.90. In September the doctor has thinking that I could be going into remission, but the November readings ended that hope.
I feel like a freak. I am not my usual self and my performance at work has suffered greatly this last year. I have finally come to accept the fact that this is a long-term condition. You know, the knee surgery will heal and normally you can return to your "normal" self after a period of time. Not so with Graves. It keeps coming back and changing symptoms and I never know from one day to the next how I will feel. So now I work to try to keep moving at a steady pace and keep low key, and to keep telling people how I feel and what is behind it in the hopes of educating them to this miserable condition. It seems that either people I talk to don’t have a clue what the thyroid is or how it controls your body, or they know someone who is at some stage of a thyroid problem. So it is not always easy for people to understand unless they have been in contact with someone who has it and even then they are puzzled but more accepting of it all. I am so glad that my doctor referred me to your website when I asked for information. Enough for now. Thank you.
