My grandmother has hyper/ and my mom has graves disease. Since Thyroid usally occurs on girls/women would i come up with graves disease also? Cause i am delayed on puberty, i havent been sleeping well at night, i been getting headahes here and there! And when you family member has a Thyroid problem wouldnt that make me have a thyroid problem since my mother has it?
I have Hashimoto's disease. a goiter and 6 nodules that are being watched. My mother was never tested but now I wonder. My maternal grandmother had it, her daughter (my aunt) had a complete thyroidectomy after Hashi's and a goiter. Mother's dad had a huge goiter, so did her brother. My sister now has it, too, Hashi's, that is-her grand-daughter displays the same symptoms. I swear one cousin has Grave's because he's very thin, hyper and his eyes bulge but he doesn't admit it if he does.
I'm not educated in the medical field but after looking at my family history in writing, how could it not be? It's also an auto-immune disease, meaning your body is attacking itself, that's very hereditary, too. You need a thyroid panel done soon.
BTW, I gained 15 pounds and tried to blame it on my thyroid-it didn't work. Just too much ice cream & loss of control for me! :-/
It can be, however, out of 15 sibilings 3 of have issues with it (all females), both hyper/hypo. My parents did NOT have any thyroid issues, so who knows...
I don't know about the weight gain, so many reasons for that. Could be medical or the eating habits. Like someone mentioned, weight gain is not the only symptom, you will usually have others..
Yes,Thyroid Disease can be hereditary. My Aunt had the same diagnosis as I, A multi-nodule Goiter and we both had a Total Thyroidectomy. The only way to determine if you have thyroid problems is to have tests run.
For me it was my father, he had Hashimotos, of my 8 siblings, 5 of us have some kind of problem, two brothers so far have hashi's, I had hashi's and cancer, my sister had cancer, my other sister is being watched and has nodules. However, just because you are gaining weight doesn't mean you have a thyroid issue. Symptoms of a thyroid disorder are weight loss or gain, hair loss, skin issues, joint pain, inability to control body heat/cold...there are many others, simply google thyroid sypmtoms and you will see many. It is easy to check, ask your doctor for a thyroid panel.