For want of a better description !
I have Graves disease, had my thyroid zapped with RAI several years ago and am now on levothyroxine. My levels can be quite variable and I have regular blood tests and go back in between tests if I fell unwell - or that's the plan anyway.
The trouble is for some reason when I start getting symptoms, for some reason I can't connect them and it takes ages for it to dawn on me that it is my thyroid playing up, even though I have been dealing with this for 7 years. Last night after getting up at 2 am to make myself a big doorstop sandwich, a cup of tea, an apple and orange and a slice of cake. It dawned on me at last that the extreme hunger but no weight gain, the sore eyes, the six poos a day, the crazy itchy dry skin and the insomnia mean I need my medication adjusted.
Every time this happens - I simply can't recognise the symptoms when I am experiencing them until they get very bad, I find concentrating hard as well and am very jittery - can't settle to anything. Now I've cottoned on this time of course I can deal with it, but I wish it didn't take me so long - it's like my brain isn't processing sensibly, when I am well I have no problem describing or discussing the symptoms of my disease.
Does anyone else with Graves/hyperthyroidism get this kind of mental blankness? And are there any practical solutions so that I don't let it go on so long in future before I get my meds sorted?
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Hyperthyroid and brain fogginess
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KurriKurri · 05/06/2015 15:04
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