- Massively Confused now - my Auntie's results...

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Hi ,

Thanks for what you've written here, sounds like you've had a tough

time of it too.

What thyroid meds do you take now if you don't mind me asking. Do

you take any psychiatric stuff?

I was hoping that my Auntie's diagnosis was going to be so simple.

Something somewhere is definitely spirally out of control but I can't

imagine her taking ATD's as I'm certain it's more thyroid hormone she

needs & not less. Perhaps not Armour though as her T3 is so high?

Who knows. I'll get the antibodies & ask them to re-test T3. Her

TSH last time was 5.75 so it seems that is zipping around too.

It seems in the 70s when my Aunt was diagnosed bi-polar she was

actually having a thyroid storm a bit like the one I had at the same

age as her - I got a fever, heart racing, sweating, vomiting, that's

how they worked out I had Graves, I guess with her they just thought

she was mentally ill.

It's such an outrage, I just want her to come back & feel her

symptoms are so similar to my Mum who's just been diagnosed hypo that

the treatment has to be the same. Lithium must have masked the

problem methinks.

Sorry I'm rambling, time for bed.

Thanks again,

Fee x x x

snip: " " <marin@q...> wrote:

> Holy cow!! I cannot believe that your Auntie's thyroid has

survived this long! At least at the time of these tests, she was

definitely HYPERthyroid, regardless of the TSH testing. The T3

indicates this, positively. From '88 to about '93, I too was

diagnosed Bipolar, that is until I took it upon myself to go

searching for other answers. I begged 4 different doctors to do

thyroid testing on me, after what little researching I did, at that

time. Then, in '94, my thyroid crashed and did an about-face to

HYPO, since it just couldn't take anymore of this upward spiral. I

was in my early 40s then, but your aunt is in her late 60s, so, at

this point, some of her symptoms would be different from a younger

person. Hyperthyroidism does present differently in the elderly

because of so many other changes going on, some due to the

hyperthyroidism. I do work with geriatric patients everyday of my

life, and they may present with lethargy, dementia, sluggishness, not

the hyperkenetics of younger people. I hate to think that your aunt

has been suffering this this many yrs, and having a label put on her

of mental illness, although thyroid disease that goes untreated for a

long time does have it's own brand of mental illness. This is when I

get angry.

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