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What is the normal way of taking care of hyperthyroidism?
Autoimmune Diseases | Last Active: Jul 13 8:43am | Replies (25)Comment receiving replies
FYI - The metallosis was responsible for the hyperthyroidism. No one believed it at the time, but it was later proven to be the case after dozens of MoM hip implant patients experienced the same thing, and had it end as metal left their bodies after revision surgery (or surgeries in my case - I had two MoM hips.)
Once I had revision surgery and the metal ions worked their way out of my body, my thyroid normalized. Nobody recognized the thyroid issue until after the hip revision surgery, when I spiked a fever and high heart rate. This was crazy because I had all the signs and symptoms - fast heart rate, PVC's, tremor, weight loss, fatigue, hair loss... The surgeon ignored all pages, my RN daughters hounded the nurses until they called the hospitalist in and she recognized it as an impending thyroid storm - the next hospitalist on rotation in the morning looked up my history of thyroid nodules (he was my previous PCP) and started meds immediately.
I was lucky to be in a first rate hospital with experienced, awesome staff hospitalists or my outcome may have been much different.
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@sueinmn I’m unfamiliar with metallosis or MoM hips, but it sounds like these things are working out for you. Thank God for your RN daughters! I found that interesting that you mentioned the history of thyroid nodules. Was there a connection between those and the near thyroid storm? My youngest daughter had a thyro-glossal duct cyst that was surgically removed when she was in college. Years later she was diagnosed with hypothyroidism and put on Levothyroxine/ Synthroid. This past spring she was diagnosed with a breast cancer. She is getting chemo every week and an immunotherapy every third week. Her last immunotherapy was last Friday. She felt weaker and more tired than usual but attributed it to overdoing it on a short camping trip over the 4th holiday. Then “all hell broke loose” Tuesday 7/9. She had new issues including chest pain, heart palpitations. She ended up spending the night in ER where it was concluded the immunotherapy became toxic and destroyed both her thyroid and adrenal glands! Neither are functioning. Both are being replaced with medication which was started in ER. She got sent home yesterday morning at 5 am.
Sorry this is getting long and straying from the topic of hyperthyroidism. I should have put this in a PM. Mama bear is stressed over her ailing cub(s).
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Holy smokes! I better mention that to my Dr. Outstanding thank you