Sweating

[Catstail]

I have an overactive thyroid. I had surgery and part of it had been removed, but it flared up again, and I am responding very well with pills. Can anyone advise whether sweating a lot is one of the symptoms? I sweat more than most people, and my hair can be dripping with sweat in summer, and I also need less jackets and sweaters in winters than most people. This doesn’t seem to be mentioned in the literature on the subject. Thanks.

[SeasideSusie Remembering]

Catstail

Increased sweating is included in the list of signs and symptoms of overactive thyroid:

thyroiduk.org/signs-symptom...

[Catstail in reply to SeasideSusie]

Thank you. That was quick and helpful.

[madge1979]

Catstail 🐈

I can assure you that extreme sweating is DEFINATELY a symptom of beingHYPERthyroid.

I have had Graves’ disease ( HYPERthyroid). for many years but was only diagnosed in 2014 .

I am , at the moment in remission .. but one Symptom that hasn’t stopped... is the profuse sweating.... it’s evil ...and makes me miserable at times of hot weather especially .

... but after begging my GP for help for many years and getting nowhere, I am now doing “my own thing “ to deal with it .

Less clothes of course helps. In hot weather I wear a sarong around the house and garden ... and resent having to be fully clothed haha.

Tea , Coffee and Alcohol all make it much worse ... and when I am eating dinner. .

Fans around me are a great help and I always have a powerful small one in my handbag .

A few Menthol crystals dissolved in warm water and applied to the skin cools you quickly.

Other than that I’m afraid I’ve never been offered a cure for it .. just another one of the Joys of being in the Wonky Thyroid Club .

Best of Luck to you .

Mx🌹

[Catstail in reply to madge1979]

Thanks, my doctors never mentioned it, and I wasn’t troubled until very recently. I was dripping with sweat in company while nobody else was affected. Thanks for your reassurance. No, I mean I’m sorry we have this as well as the real problem.

[madge1979 in reply to Catstail]

It’s a pleasure .. mx🌹

[joydot in reply to Catstail]

You have my sympathy... started menopausal sweats 3 or 4 months ago. It was wild. After a few months my body seems to have adapted but it was wild. My teen son was impressed. HOW DOCS ACCEPT THAT AS NORMAL IS BEYOND ME.

[Catstail in reply to joydot]

Wow! I haven’t had that experience, fortunately.

[joydot in reply to Catstail]

thought i was going to get away without too ):

[Catstail in reply to joydot]

😉

[pennyannie]

Hello Catstail

If you don't know of the Elaine Moore Graves Disease Foundation website suggest you might like to dip in ?

There's much on the Thyroid uk website, the charity behind this forum, but if with Graves Disease Elaine's website offers a very well rounded well researched opinion on all things Graves, as it does appear to be a poorly understood and badly treated auto immune disease.

I'm with Graves post RAI thyroid ablation, and Elaine Moore also has this AI disease so has vested interest in all things Graves related.

[Catstail in reply to pennyannie]

Thank you, I don’t know about them, and will read up. I’ve only been told I have an overactive thyroid. Many thanks for the info.

[pennyannie in reply to Catstail]

Hey there

When did you have a partial thyroidectomy and after this surgery were you put on Levothyroxine - T4 ?

The " pills ' are you now taking - are they Carbimazole ?

[Catstail in reply to pennyannie]

I had the partial thyroidectomy done about 30 years ago, and wasn’t put on any medication at all. It suddenly came back a couple years ago, and I am currently on Carbimazole.

[pennyannie in reply to Catstail]

Ok, well, I'm guessing you have Graves Disease as it doesn't go away, it's for life as it's an autoimmune disease.

It will be in your best interests to start reading up as generally the NHS only prescribe AT drugs like Carbimazole for around 15/18 months and after this time, if your levels do not become stable without the AT drug, they suggest the drastic action of either thyroid removal or thyroid ablation with Radioactive Iodine.

Both these extremes will result in your thyroid being totally destoyed and then you will become hypothyroid and the very opposite of hyperthyroidism and need to be on be on thyroid hormone replacement medication for life.

But as you may have now realised having already gone through thyroid surgery once, this doesn't actually solve the problem of an auto immune disease and can simply compound the problem, when, then, hypothyroid and still with lingering Graves symptoms.

Currently the NHS routinely only prescribed T4 thyroid hormone replacement which doesn't necessarily work well for people without a fully finctioning thyroid and many of us on here have been forced into self medication and buy our own thyroid hormone replacements, either adding T3 to our T4 NHS prescription, or switching over to full spectrum thyroid replacement which contains both T3 and T4, both vital, essential thyroid hormones.

I had my thyroid ablated with RAI back in 2005 because of Graves and knew nothing. I was totally compliant, and simply trusted that the doctor knew best. I deeply regret drinking this toxic substance, true, I'm longer hyper but now I'm hypo with lingering Graves symptoms, and have been forced to buy my own thyroid hormone medication in order to regain my health.

I now read of people staying on AT drugs long term and if I had my time over again this would be the treatment option I would choose, as, after all, we are looking at an auto immune disease that just happens to target the thyroid, a major gland that we really do not want to have live without.

The thyroid is the victim in all this - not the cause - the cause is your immune system mistakenly attacking your body.

[Catstail in reply to pennyannie]

Thank you for sharing. I’m sorry you had to go through all that! I am, touch wood, doing quite well after the flare up, and am taking Carbimazole two times a week, reduced from a heavy dose. Hope it remains as mild as it is. What you described is scary.

[pennyannie]

Hey there again :

I'm glad to read that you are on a small dose of Carbimazole now.

This drug blocks your own thyroid hormone production and now suspect your levels have come back down into range and you are more comfortable, and let's hope this was a " blip ' and your thyroid has gone back into normal rhythm on minimal AT drugs.

Graves ravages vitamins and minerals and it's really important to keep yor core strength strong and solid and would suggest that you ask for your ferritin, folate, B12 and vitamin D tested as these need to be maintained at optimal levels for continued good health.

There are private companies, as listed o the Thyroid uk website, who will undertake these for you if your doctor can't and it will also be useful to know where yor T3 and T4 now sit so to be able to monitor your progress.

Maybe you already have these results and if you need anything explained just start a new post with the ranges and people more able than myself will talk you through anything that looks amiss.

There are amazing people on this equally amazing website who can read your results and ranges and advise if any action needs to be taken by you to supplement and build back up your levels to optimal health, which of course is what we all want to achieve.

[Catstail in reply to pennyannie]

I have a blood test before every visit to the consultant, I know that Vit D is checked, I don’t understand the other things. Thanks for all this info you provided. I will look at the other things next time I get a test done. Thanks for your time.