Re: Hi I'm feeling better -to

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Hi ,

I will try and go back and find Elaines answers, but I do

understand what your saying. It's distressing that my thyriod is

getting eaten alive so to speak by these antibodys. You also

mentioned thyoid levels are higher just before your mensis. I do

believe all of this happened around the same time. I have made

myself promise to myself, that I will get bloods in the middle of

my " crisis? " and maybe this way I'll absolutley know where I stand

with my levels. I made myself swear I wont wait.. I intend to hold

myself to it.

I also absolutly aggree stress makes us sick. I do pilates and

that makes me relaxed and I do try breathing exersis.... it really

helps.

Luci

In graves_support , " B. " <mlbuck@s...>

wrote:

> Hi Luci -

>

> Yes, it does seem that it's not uncommon to have hyper and hypo

symptoms at

> the same time. Elaine has explained it before how this can happen,

and

> hopefully I'm paraphrasing it correctly or at least close. We know

that

> Graves' is caused by antibodies attacking the thyroid and that

there are

> different kinds of antibodies. Some of the antibodies attack the

thyroid

> tissue itself and kill it (I believe this pertains to the thyroid

peroxidase

> antibodies - the TPO - in particular). As the thyroid tissue dies,

the

> thyroid hormones that were stored in the tissue is released,

causing

> " bursts " of hyper. Similar thing also happens when people have

RAI. The RAI

> destroys the thyroid tissue and the stored thyroid hormone is

released.

> That's part of why people usually feel worse before they feel

better with

> RAI.

>

> So nope, you're not the only one that feels hyper/hypo at the same

time.

> Also, your thyroid levels are at their highest right before your

mestrual

> cycle begins, so that can cause one to feel a bit more hyper even

if you're

> not. I know this happens to me no matter what level I seem to be

at. Also,

> some of the hypo/hyper symptoms overlap and everyone is different

and has

> their own individual hyper/hypo symptoms.

>

> Hope that makes you feel a bit better anyway!

>

>

> P.S. Did anyone see the Scientific American show on their local

PBS channel?

> It was about stress, the fight-or-flight syndrome, and how it can

make

> people ill, weaken immune systems, etc. It was pretty interesting

(although

> showed too much blood drawing for me - icky!) Anyway, the basic

summary of

> the show was this: Can stress make you sick? Yes, definitely. Are

some

> people more prone to stress than others? Yes. Can learning to deal

with

> stress through meditation, yoga, whatever, improve your health?

Yes it does.

> Stuff we already know, but interesting to see it backed up by some

> scientific evidence.