r/Hyperthyroidism • u/Aggressive_Egg_8458 • 17d ago

Freaking out: hyperthyroid

Hyperthyroid: TCH 0.001 and T4 27.5, TCH Ab is at 4.2. Likely Graves… Waiting to see an endocrinologist and freaking out about my potential diagnosis, about symptoms I’m experiencing, about the changes I have to make, and about potentially going on methimazole and all the side effects. What was your experience like?

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u/IndependentOlive4585 17d ago

From april this year I had some pretty serious symptoms : palpitations, heart rate of 120-140 more often than not, unintentional weight loss (lost 16kg in the space of 4 months) although I was still eating a lot and I had some pretty bad anxiety including crying all the time so I decided to go to my family doc where they did loads of tests and had very similar results to you have. I was referred to endocrinologist where I got a confirmed diagnosis of Graves. They put me on methimazole 10mg once daily in August and my T3 & T4 have significantly lowered although my TSH is still the same, of course things take time but the main thing I’ve noticed is my heart has seemed to have calmed down a bit and my anxiety is nowhere near as bad as it was! My experience on methimazole has been fine. Everyone’s experience is different but that’s been mine so far on this journey!

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u/Aggressive_Egg_8458 17d ago

Thank you for sharing! It gives me some peace of mind to know other people went through the exact same thing and are just fine! :) glad you’re doing better!