graves - eyebrows

[nooneimportant]

quick question - I know everyone thinks I’m under active and I think I’ve gone overactive but… as I can’t do my blood test im not gonna know for a while.

I’ve always had pale and fine eyebrows but now im having to succumb to shading them in - they seem even finer or it could just be my white hair getting whiter? Regardless, I know it’s sometimes a symptom of hypo but does anyone have experience of it being Graves or depression related?? My depression has hit hard again since returning from Germany and I’m wondering if it’s to do with that?

[asiatic]

I have Graves and no eyebrows. Fortunately I don't suffer from depression which is more likely a symptom of being hypo

[nooneimportant in reply to asiatic]

I suffer generally away but has escalated recently - Maybe it’s graves causing eyebrow thinning then 🤔 if others have it too - couldn’t find much online but didn’t hunt too hard tbh 😕

[asiatic in reply to nooneimportant]

Some Graves patients transition to hypo if they have more blocking than stimulating TRAb. This might be happening to you and you need a full blood panel to confirm what your symptoms are suggesting. To feel well again you may need to take Levothyroxine either on its own or as part of a block and replace regime.

[nooneimportant in reply to asiatic]

That’s really interesting as my grandma was hyper when she was alive yet my mum doesn’t recognise Carbimazole or PTU and states she was only on thyroxine…. Grandma passed away 12 years ago so I have no way of knowing what happened precisely 😔

[FallingInReverse]

This is totally a thing… I haven’t committed it all to memory, but I recall posts about people losing outer 1/3 of their eyebrows, and I can say I know I’m going through a bout of hypo when I continually have to get eyelashes out off my eyeballs where they get caught when they fall out.

Not sure how or why, but it does come up here periodically.

[nooneimportant in reply to FallingInReverse]

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