Hyperthyroidism in 2018

Well, yet another entry voice to text so I apologize for any errors because as usual I will likely not proofread.

So I’ve got my diagnosis. With all of the heart trouble and bullshit like that going on, my doctor suggested I get a couple rounds of blood work done. When they came back they showed that I have hyperthyroidism.

We did a few more tests and the rest of the bloodwork came back and concluded that the first few weren’t flukes. When I was told a few weeks ago that Hyper thyroidism was a possibility, you know damn well I went home and googled the shit out of that. The interesting thing is that I have already googled this because of random missed periods as well as a few other funny symptoms I have had in the past 18 months to two years.

The trouble that I’ve had swallowing lately, and more so in the past year than I ever have is most definitely caused by my thyroid. The hair loss. The weird menstrual cycles. The nervousness, the anxiety. The fancy new depression that I have. The jitters that I get that I always brush off as just being over caffeinated… The elevated heart rate. The only thing that doesn’t seem to fall into place is the sensitivity to heat… I really really love heat I love being warm I love summer. But other than that I seem to have hit every other symptoms, minus the weight loss. I haven’t noticed any weight loss at all however I do eat a lot of food and tend to stay around the same size in general so maybe that has something to do with it.

So all of those heart test that I’ve done, part of all of the funny business that was showing on the results pasta do with my thyroid… I have had palpitations and crap like that for as long as I can remember, and I was tested in 2009… With an EKG. The results of that show that I had sinus tachycardia but they didn’t catch the pre-mature ventricular contraction’s on that. Those of the ones I feel most often, and I felt the longest. Particularly when I’m tired or stressed out.

Do any of you suffer from Any sort of Thyroidism? Technically it’s not new to me since I’ve had it for let’s say a year or so, but the information is new to me… And I don’t honestly know how to feel about it. I’m a little overwhelmed with all the information I’ve gotten from both my doctors and the Internet. How did you battle yours? Do you even battle it? I have no idea what to expect, what to do, how to feel… So any advice/information/any sort of words, will help.

Kristen <3