u/Vanillachestnut

34 years old female here, just got diagnosed with Grave. On my first day of meds 5mg of methimazole and a follow up in 1.5months. I don't have much symptoms, just hair fall, difficulty to gain muscle (gym 4 times), and hard to sleep. I thought what I was feeling was normal as it is MY NORMAL. The doctor told me I'll feel better in 2 weeks, but I thought what I was feeling was normal as it is MY NORMAL. I'm actually not sure what he might have meant by that but I'm wondering the following:

1. Doctor told me the meds might lower my immunity and I might get sick with a cold more often? Has anyone experienced that? Would it make your herpes act up more often?

2. My co-worker has this too. She told me to avoid iodine? The doctor didn't mention anything about this.

3. I understand that you can keep Grave's in remission, but when it does act up again what are some of your symptoms that tell you it's back again?

4. The disease never goes away, so how are people dealing with it at 60-70-80 years of age? What are the symptoms? Does it become active because you are diagnosed with other things?

5. Any other tests that I should do? Vitamin deficiency? Cortisol?

My daughter just turned 3. I speak Thai and English. My husband speaks Swedish and English. Grandma/Nanny are doing Thai. We are doing OPOL and live in Thailand.

She spends the most time with me, I speak English to her.

My main concern right now is she understands everything but replies in English. We are also planning to send her to a Thai school so she gets more exposure to Thai.

1. I don't know if I should change to speaking Thai with her because home language is already English. I'm a bit worry for when she starts school because everything will be in Thai. I started worrying because I took her to an art&craft workshop today and told the staff it's totally fine to speak to her in Thai she understands but will reply in English. After 15 min, he got another staff that spoke English to come do it with her saying that she was very quiet and didn't speak to him at all even though she was doing the task (as he directed). I think bc of this incident I started to worry abt her lack of reply in Thai :(

2. Is it common for them to reply in 1 language they're comfortable in? My grandma/nanny/hubby tries to correct her but she'll just say Yea ... and continue on in English. We tell her she needs to speak Thai to grandma, she says NO. Grandma ask her what is this call in Thai (orange), she replies in English. Grandma says it in Thai, she tries to correct grandma to English instead.

• Edit

• Long term plan to stay in Thailand until she's 10 then move to Sweden.
• might switch to international school (full English + Minor Thai class) when she's 8

I often take my 3 year old daughter out to the kids cafe. I live in Asia. So, it's like an indoor slide and some small toys and building blocks for toddlers can enjoy.

Lately I've been noticing that she's pretty protective of what she's playing with. A random kid will come by and she'll tell them 'No, this is mine. I'm playing with it.' fair enough she's building a tower or whatever she is doing with these toys. But sometimes she gets so upset that she cries when the other baby takes her toy. I notice most moms will just divert their kid somewhere else and return the toy she's playing with. I sometimes tell her to share but since she doesn't want to do that at the moment but tries to offer the kid some other toy.

So, I'm wondering how I can handle this situation? Like the toy is there for everyone to play with but at the same time I can understand that if I'm building a Lego thing and some kid comes and takes the piece that I've built, I'll be upset too. Do I try to get her to share these toys? Do I teach her to say, No thank you. I'm playing with it? I'm confused about what I should do.