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I'm 15 years of age and was told earlier on this morning by my doctor on the phone that I have an overactive thyroid , I didn't know what to say, but I need to keep getting my bloods done. she's been phoning me in every second day for the past week now and it's starting to worry me a lot! Will I have to be prescribed Medication or what? My Mum has this and she had lost a lot of weight!
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fern12 allanisshepherd
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Rather than give you medication they may try to talk you into having your thyroid destroyed through radioactive iodine or removed surgically. I didn't want to have either of those and I am about 50 years older than you. By that, I mean that you have a very long life ahead of you and to go through all that time with a destroyed thyroid and having to have supplements to replace it might be a lot worse.
The doctor might suggest that you would have to take the anti thyroid medication all your life, anyway. But that isn't always true. I took it for a few years, but now I don't need it anymore.
It is true weight loss is often a symptom of GD.
debbie38655 allanisshepherd
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allanisshepherd debbie38655
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I've just logged back into this account and yeah I got my gland removed in December 2015, the endocrinologist said that I was too toxic for radioactive iodine but I'm now on thyroxine for the rest of my life, Thankyou!
emmaj43 allanisshepherd
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allanisshepherd emmaj43
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Hi Emma I've just logged back into this, yeah I had my thyroid gland removed in December 2015 and I'm now on thyroxine for the rest of my life, my mum does have an overactive thyroid but she isn't on any medication for it just now as it settles itself down for a couple of months but it then flares up again, my mum was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism when she was 34, she dropped down to about 6 stone and her weight keeps dropping so I'm phoning her doctor as soon as I get the chance to get hers sorted Thankyou!
Sue1247 allanisshepherd
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fern12 Sue1247
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I have heard this from more than one person, including my neighbor who had his thyroid removed, being destined to suffer continually with low thyroid symptoms just because his TSH isn't high enough "to warrent an increase in dosage."
Some of us also have a problem converting T4 into the more active form, T3, but that can go unrecognized.
allanisshepherd Sue1247
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Hi Sue I've just logged back into this and yeah I had my thyroid gland removed in December 2015 and I'm on thyroixine for the rest of my life
allanisshepherd fern12
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Hi Fern I had my thyroid gland removed in December 2015 and I'm now on thyroxine for the rest of my life. It took the doctor a couple of months to find the right dosage of thyroxine for me but they managed to level it out
neilmartin allanisshepherd
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allanisshepherd neilmartin
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Hi Neil yeah I had my thyroid gland removed in December 2015 and I'm on thyroxine for the rest of my life, Thankyou!!
Isrieal allanisshepherd
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fern12 Isrieal
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If you are experiencing a very fast resting heart rate [pulse] you may need to be seen earlier than that. When I was first diagnosed my heart rate was over 90 beats per minute resting and my doctor was very upset that the endocrinologist he recommended could not see me for 3 months, so he sent me to one who could see me in a week. Not that that was the best thing, in my opinion. If I had it to do over, I would have taken some Acetyl-L-Carnitine [otc at health food store] while I waited for my appointment. It seems to help get the TSH back where it belongs and alieviate some syptoms of either hyper- or hypo-thyroidism. When I finally did start taking ALC, I understood that I had to get the doctors' approval for anything I took, including herbal supplements or otc drugs. It was approved, but there was a long, and in my opinion, unneccessary wait.
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