Newly diagnosed with hyperthyroid
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Newly diagnosed with hyperthyroid
| Sun, 09-23-2007 - 2:44pm |
I am new here, and was just diagnosed with hyperthyroidism after that iodine uptake test from my doc and he said my thyroid was enlarged. I am 22 years old, and have had all the symptoms for years it feels like. I am the most anxious person I know, I have SVT (supraventricular tachycardia) even my resting heart rate is pretty high, I am ALWAYS tired but can never fall asleep at night (I spend hours just lying in my bed)!! I am 5'6 and weigh 120, so I lost about 6 pounds, but i go up and down all the time so i don't know if that is a substantial loss, but i am ALWAYS hungry, and eat like every second which I really hate and I have really bad headaches, I don't know if that is related to this. But instead of heat intolerance, I have an intolerance to the cold! I am always cold! I don't know why or how I got hyperthyroidism, if maybe I have graves disease or what. I am going to an endo monday, I have never been to one. What should I expect? Will he put me on medicine? I'm not such a big fan of medicine, but I was going to go on medicine for anxiety, but if my anxiety is mostly because of this new diagnosis then maybe meds for that can treat the anxiety. I don't know, but I'll definately ask the endo. Also, I read a lot about how it is harder to get pregnant and that many bad thing can happen to the baby because of hyperthyroidism and that kind of scares me. I someday will want kids (not anytime too soon!!!) but that worries me!!! Thanks!!

Hi jcs4ot,
Welcome to our board.
I don't know how much research you have done on this topic but I'll list our links if you'd like to check them out.
Thyroid Disorders Center:
http://diabetes.health.ivillage.com/thyroiddisorders/index.cfm
Thyroid Disorders – Topic Listing:
http://health.ivillage.com/thyroid/topics/0,,4twl,00.html
Hi,
I was hyperthyroid (Graves Disease) about 3 yrs ago