Hi:

I do hope you doctor has ordered a thyroid panel of the Free T3, Free T4, and TSH as this should be done every four weeks. If your Free Ts have dropped, especially heading for the mid ranges of the normal ranges, doses reductions should be happening.

It sounds like you may be over dosed now to get the rashes. If that's the case, simple dose reductions according to the latest labs will help you.

Also you mentioned being scatterbrained which leads me to think you could be heading hypO.

Please check with your doctor ASAP.

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SHE HAS ME COMING BACK IN 3 MONTHS AND I NEED TO DO BLOODWORK BEFORE THEN SO SHE CAN SEE IF ITS GETTING BETTER, THANKS FOR THE INFO I MIGHT ASK IF I CAN GO GIVE BLOOD THIS WEEK AND MAYBE ANOTHER TIME BEFORE I GO BACK IN 3 MONTHS

Yes, definitely do that. Thyroid levels can change quickly.

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ok please someone have an answer or some advice, i have had a rash went to my family dr and he didnt do diddly for me, supposed to go back in a month, i dont think so after 20 years with him i think he has seen the last of me. called my endo told her hr went to 57 last night asked if i could cut the does in half and she said no i told her about the rash on my back/stomach neck and face now she told me to quit taking methimazole and give blood on monday or as soon as i could if my blood is ok she is going to give me rai and hopefully only kill the part that is hyper it seems i can not take methimazole any clues guys i really dont want to do that but i cant go around looking like i have the freaking chicken poxs either, thanks

You do sound terribly over dosed.
How much MMI ( Methimazole) do you take each day ?

I take 10mg twice a day of the meth lol and propranolol i take 20mg once daily not sure why she wouldnt cut me down to 5mg of meth and try that instead of wanting to kill my thyroid but she was the only dr i could find, there are few and far between here

Do you know what your lab results were when you started the MMI ?

tsh 20 ranges 34 to 560 so marked low
ft4 302 ranges of 58 to 164 marked high
thyroid stim immunoglobulin 254 ranges 0 to 139
thyroid peroxidase 64 ranges of 0 to 34

i didnt put the periods i tried it the last time and it messed it up hopefully this goes through

tsh .20 ranges of .34 to 5.60
ft4 3.02 rangers of .58 to 1.64
thyroid stim immunoglobhulin 254 ranges of 0-139
thyroid perozidase 64 ranges of 0-34

So it looks like with the 20 and the rash, this is most likely mostly from the rapid drop in thyroid levels.

I'm not sure how long you've been taking the MMI ? The most common time for the rash and hives is at about 3 1/2 weeks.

Personally I would get new labs tomorrow and lower my dose after the blood draw. , but I' experienced.. . new people can get in trouble doing that.
If you stop meds and wait till Monday those labs will not show what the medication did, because you will become more hyper each day not on meds.

For those initial labs 10 mg would work fine from the start.. but 20 and a working down with frequent labs is fine too.

This is so hard. I understand how you feel, but have never had a lack of doctors to choose from. For me it's been a matter of availability of money to see those doctors. :(

TONIGHT WILL BE 1 MONTH EXACTLY SO I THINK WHAT I WILL DO IS NOT STOP IT UNTIL I GO GIVE BLOOD AND TELL THE ENDO WHAT I DID HOPEFULLY SHE WONT BE TOO MAD

I could have done better... ;)

Here are you labs:

" tsh .20 ranges of .34 to 5.60
ft4 3.02 rangers of .58 to 1.64
thyroid stim immunoglobhulin 254 ranges of 0-139
thyroid perozidase 64 ranges of 0-34 "

The thyroid stim immunoglobhulin is our unique Graves' antibody. These antibodies stimulate the thyroid gland to make hormone. They work in place of TSH, a pituitary hormone normally used by the body to regulate thyroid hormone production. Unfortunately our TSI antibodies only stimulate.. they don't regulate.. so we need to slow production down with the ATD ( anti-thyroid drugs).

These same TSI antibodies can also affect our eyes, skin, brain.. etc, so reducing them , as the meds do, will , in time, cause remission. But this is the big picture.. now we just know that what you have is Graves'. A positive diagnosis.

thyroid perozidase antibodies... are a sign of inflammation of the thyroid gland. They say 70 to 80 % of us have these antibodies. They will also reduce and your levels normalize.
Here's info for you.
http://www.medicinenet.com/thyroid_peroxidase_test/article.htm

tsh .20 ranges of .34 to 5.60

The fact that you have this much TSH is a bit odd. Normally I expect to see .01, .001, .002 or such. Wonder if that's a lab error ? Not a big deal either way.. it's low and does show that thyroid levels are too high.

This is the most important number you will learn to watch.
ft4 3.02 rangers of .58 to 1.64

That's the low reference range and we will need to adjust our thinking due to that..but for now it's close enough. Using that range you will probably find you feel best somewhere closer to the top. Mid range would be 1.10.. so you will need to be higher than that for sure.

Right now what your looking for is for the 3.20 to be closer to 1.64 the top.. your probably just a little over if I was to guess. As soon as you hit the 1.64 the dose must be lowered. This is where so many veer off the path and get send hypo. Their doctors look at the TSH and tell them they are hyper.. it all goes bad from there.

Hope I haven't confused you now. I do type too much sometimes.

Great book:
Thyroid for Dummies..and a great doctor too.
http://books.google.com/books?printsec=frontcover&id=Shq6Y7Px9b8C#v=onepage&q&f=false

See if you can arrange to get labs tomorrow..

P.S.

If Google books is new to you.. find the place up towards the top marked " contents"...that will open a place where you can see the chapters and quickly go to the hyper part of the book.

There's also a link on the right to go directly to Amazon if you wanted to buy the book. There are only two books I recommend.. this one and Elaine's book.. the rest have too many errors for a new Graves' patient. Save them for later..then you can play "find the mistakes". LOL

WHEN I FIRST WAS GETTING MY BLOOD TESTED IT WAS TSH ANYWAY .01 AND THEN 3 WEEKS LATER IT WAS .01 AGAIN THOSE ONES I JUST GAVE YOU WERE ABOUT 1 MONTH AGO AND THAT WAS AFTER I WAS PUT ON A BETA BLOCKER, MAYBE THATS WHY IT WAS ALITTLE HIGHER, THANKS FOR ALL THE INFO, MY LAB IS NOT OPEN ON THURSDAY OR I WOULD GO TOMORROW