u/HardCoreNorthShore

I was sitting watching TV and my mouth just started tasting like blood. I grab a tissue (I've got a cold), and it was coming from my gums.

Is this a Graves thing?

One week ago today I switched from methimazole to PTU. I've been being treated for a couple months now.

It's hard to tell whether it's the PTU or just the time under treatment, but as of last Saturday, I feel COMPLETELY FLIPPING NORMAL. I have energy to care about things, I don't have to nap after work, and I got through my toughest work day (on Thursdays, I clean 13 small apartments) without crashing. In fact, I had to ask my partner, "Are we done already?"

This is an absolute SEA CHANGE in how I was feeling.

I'm excited to get my labs done in a few weeks to see where my numbers are.

Has this been anyone else's experience?

My incompetent endo switched me from methimazole to PTU because of severe itching. I've been on PTU for a few days and the itching is worse than before. BUT, I feel muuuuuuuch better otherwise. I have energy again!

This happen to anyone else?

Why am I still feeling so shitty? I'm exhausted, I have to nap every day when I get home from work, still can't tolerate heat in any way, shape, or form, heart is still pounding if I forget to take the propranolol.

Does that take more time even if the labs show back-to-normal levels?

No one understands that even though I work in the air-conditioning at the homes I clean, the heat is going to make this week absolutely miserable. Hauling the equipment in and out, sweating even in the AC because it's so humid...yeah, I'm whining. But I swear, no one understands this.

"But you work where there's AC!"

Fuck off.

On propranolol for about six weeks, methimazole for about five.

The last few days, my hands and feet have been abruptly and severely itching. I've been taking a 24 hour Allegra, and that works, but by evening the itching returns.

The diarrhea was bad before, but today I've gone and it's just like water, about ten times since 2pm. I've taken an Imodium because I am SO sore down there.

Last few days, I've also developed hives that come and go. Mostly on my arms and hands, and there was a little spot on my stomach.

I'm a 54 year old woman, and I've been through a lot in life. I am tough. But I can not function like this.

Please give me some insight, some hope. I can't do this.

Has anyone here had to change jobs or professions because of hyperthyroidism?

I own a residential cleaning company, and I'm having a hard time keeping up with it these days. The work just seems so much more difficult than it used to, and besides that, when the tiredness hits, it hits RIGHT NOW.

Not knowing when or if I'll feel better is hard. 😭

Has anyone here had to change jobs or professions because of hyperthyroidism?

I own a residential cleaning company, and I'm having a hard time keeping up with it these days. The work just seems so much more difficult than it used to, and besides that, when the tiredness hits, it hits RIGHT NOW.

Not knowing when or if I'll feel better is hard. 😭

So I just got out of a shower, not a hot shower, and it's hell degrees here so I ended with a cool rinse.

My skin is hot. Not from the outside, not hot to the touch, but from the inside. It feels like it's against a heat source. But I'm in an air conditioned room.

Wtf...anyone experienced this sensation?

I am so entirely tired of this disease. Truly. Entirely.

I own a residential cleaning company, and am busy five days a week. I enjoy the work because I've always really liked hard physical labor.

I've felt myself getting weaker strength-wise, but today about a third of the way through the day, I just couldn't anymore. This has never in my 54 years happened to me.

It wasn't just a case of the sleepies, it was like I was physically tapped out. Just done. My partner finished what we had to do for the next few hours while I sat and occasionally tried getting up to do something. But every time, is have to sit down again.

Is this normal for Graves?

Newly diagnosed, and I'm on 20mg propranolol 3 times daily, and 15mg methimazole once daily. I've been on the pro for a month and the methimazole for two weeks. I've been not doing anything physical except work (I'm a residential cleaner) for two weeks because my endo recommended it.

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I went roller skating tonight for an hour and stopped because my hands swelled so bad, I couldn't even make a fist.

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Is this something permanent? I'm not a sedentary person and I'm devastated thinking I can't skate anymore.

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I can't seem to get a straight answer from my doctors so I thought I'd ask here...

Diagnosed with hyperthyroidism from Graves about a month ago, and have been taking propranolol 20mg 3x a day. Today was my first day on methimazole 15mg once a day.

Can I, or can I not exercise? I'm a professional residential cleaner, so I am very physically active for 4-6 hours a day, five days a week. I also roller skate. And if I'm going to gain weight on this medication, I want to start going to the gym again. But is it safe?

Do any of you have ideas for a t shirt neckline? Backstory is, I've ordered several Pride t shirts to wear in June, but they're all crew necks and I loathe crew necks (they didn't come in anything but).

So I'm looking for some cool ideas where I could cut the neck out and then do something with embroidery with rainbow floss.

I've Googled, but I'm not coming up with anything!

To whomever sold me the peach candle with the fancy laser cut wood top at the Kingfield yard sale...

I now know why you sold it.

I've thrown it away.

I can still smell it. Like a ghost that refuses to leave.

A very pungent, awful, stinky ghost.

I may have to put it in the trash outside.

It just won't leave.

I'd like to do some outdoor skating and live in a metro with tons of paved walking and biking trails.

Which do I use when there are separate dedicated walking and biking routes?

And can anyone offer tips for outdoor skating? I'm wondering if I might be able to use tennis courts (public) to do drills. Are there any other places you go to practice that aren't a rink?

This wasn't the way I intended to do it, but here we are.

I am picking up a new enclosure for my corn snake today, and want to go bioactive. The enclosure I'm picking up comes with springtails and isopods (in containers).

This isn't ideal, and I'm aware of that. The tank needs time to "season", but I didn't want these little buddies to die. So, what can I do to accommodate these guys while the tank forms it's biome?

I have gotten the substrate worked out, so that's done. What plants can I add that'll be good with a burrowing snek? And how can I make the isopods and springtails comfy?