Hi, I had graves disease and had my thyroid removed. My thyroglobulin antibodies are high three years after removal does that mean I now have hashimoto disease?
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Antibodies after thyroid removal
You can have raised TPO or TG antibodies with Graves’ disease too
How much levothyroxine are you currently taking
What are your most recent thyroid and vitamin results
What vitamin supplements are you currently taking
all thyroid blood tests early morning, ideally just before 9am and last dose levothyroxine 24 hours before test
This gives highest TSH, lowest FT4 and most consistent results. (Patient to patient tip)
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Hello Purpleduck and welcome to the forum :
Both Graves and Hashimoto's are auto immune diseases - and an issue of one's own immune system malfunctioning and turning on the body to attack it, rather than protect it.
With Hashimoto's, as I understand things, the immune system only attacks the thyroid but with Graves the immune system can still affect other areas of the body and Graves tends to wax and wane throughout one's life.
After the definitive treatment of either RAI thyroid ablation or a thyroidectomy the life threatening aspects of Graves are resolved as without a thyroid you are totally reliant on daily thyroid hormone replacement medication which can be adjusted to recreate your unique levels of T3 and T4 thyroid hormonal balance and hopefully restore your health and well being.
It is imperative that you are dosed and monitored on your Free T3 and Free T4 readings and not a TSH reading seen in isolation which, I'm afraid, does seem to happen in primary care and which causes so many thyroid patients not to be optimally medicated which then simply compounds their existing health issues.
You can read around Graves further on the Elaine Moore Graves Disease Foundation website which i found the most well rounded of all the research I undertook some 10 years after my RAI thyroid ablation for Graves in 2005.
I didn't understand why I was so ill and with little understanding from my doctor and hospital - thought maybe that Graves, had come back again, only to read it never went away !!!