Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: subacute thyroiditis

AP,

Well, since your mom had it you know something about it. For about a month I'd get the sweats. I guess that was the fever part. And yes, your gland becomes inflamed. With me it was only on my left side of the thyroid. It seems to be going down now. Also, a "bag" under my left eye got big.....still is and I'm hoping it's not Graves but since I'm going back to being hypo it doesn't sound like it. Fortunately I WAS already on beta blockers for hypertension when the heart arrhythmias started, but nonetheless, they still scared me. That was from me going hyper, and still being on thyroid meds for hypo..(which took me into being more hyper----bad for the heart)....I had to quit all the thyroid meds until I go more hypo.....which I can tell is happening. Hair? yep, I know the feeling.........in my case being hypo always means hair fall out, but with the thyroiditis a section of the center of my left eyelashes fell out.......weird ey? Seems it's all affecting my left side. I was ordered NOT to exercise (I went to aerobics daily) so natch I'm loosing muscle mass.............in my case it's just turning into FAT.............ug. The strange thing is about this is that it can last from 2 weeks to 6 months and is suppose to spontaneously go away. Since my thyroid antibodies in my blood are sooooo elevated it going to take a while. You see, you get a hole in your thyroid gland and it dumps the antibodies it usually stores into your blood system. The white blood count is up because you are fighting an infection. It usually comes on the tail of an upper respiratory infection. (I had one for 8 weeks Jan/Feb and that could have caused it.) It can also come from HRT, or as little as having a seat belt rubbing against your throat for long hrs. of driving. It's really ODD stuff, but like you said about you mom...........makes you darn sick.

I'm so glad to hear she got better. I don't want to scare you but the biggest risk factor to getting it again is to have had it once already. She needs to be super carefull if she gets a cold or virus and get on antibiotics to correct it right away. I let mine go thinking it would go away in 2 weeks and it took 2 months, but I never knew something like this could come after it.

Thanks for your concern.........and I hope your mom NEVER, EVER gets this again............

(Don't worry, it's not catching or inherited, unless she is hypothyroid or hyper and then you stand a chance of getting those.)

Kandee

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