Questions???

[deezle]

My daughter has been given a provisional dx of Grave's disease.  Her symptoms have been racing heart, hand sweats, light-headedness, fatigue, weight loss, intermittent vomiting and nausea,and abdominal pain at times.  She had a full CBC in late November which showed a TSH of 0.113.

Her symptoms remained, and now her full thryoid bloods are as follows:  T3- 473, TSH- 0.011, Total T4->15.0.

She is only 19 years old and scheduled for an RAIU and ultrasound. My Dr. is baffled by the vomiting and nausea.  Any thoughts/suggestions?

[deezle]

The doctor prescribed propranol for the racing heart and some anti nausea medication which doesn't always work.

[stella5349]

I ate a huge amounts of food when I was Hyper thryroid - yet I had times when I didn't eat at all -- I forgot. I would get nausea because of eating to much and when I didn't because I was so empty. I am sure the abdominal distress is a part of that too. Has the doctor put her on any meds. I found relief from a nausea/ stomach spasm Rx prescribed to me at that time.

Good Luck

[GravesLady]

I lost a lot of weight with a ravishing appetite and a metabolism that was so fast that if I didn't eat when my system warned me to, I would get very nauseated. Some times so sick I would end up in bed for the rest of the day sleeping it off. And end up missing the meals anyway. Sometimes my stomach would be so empty I would get the dry heaves.

GL,

January is Thyroid Awareness Month, a month when various organizations put together informational efforts to help us all learn more about thyroid disease here in the U.S.

January is National Graves Disease Awareness Month
National Graves' Disease Awareness Week 1/7 thr 1/13