Wondering if I've gone Hashi's -?.....

[Seraffa]

Hi there - I'm new, obviously, and here's my story to tell. I was termed "mildly" Hyperthyroid with Graves 2 years ago this summer, and had stayed on five mg. Methimazole while I lived in "the City" -- NYC amongst a house of people who smoked packs of cigs a day, plenty of air pollution outside my Manhattan flat's window, and, because if was a homeless shelter, my nerves were contstantly bombarded by the antics of a Schizophrenic whom they would not house in an appropriate treatment facility Thank God those days are over. I kept taking my meds and arrived here in northeastern PA in October to find that social services were extremely poor. I  lived in my car the whole winter and continued to take my meds and eat plenty of cabbage and crucifers and whatever else was a :"goitrogen" including powerful flaxseed oil! I got myself off of Aspartame and Splenda - the second of which was reputed to have caused Graves in some people since the sweetener is processes with chlorine. Well one day in March after I joined a new Church I was pleased with, I started waking up with these awful migranes and it felt like my metabolic energy was being zapped out of me....so...i stopped taking the flaxseed to see if things would get better.....THEY DID NOT. I was having horrid migranes and started getting on the edge of clinical depression so I called the free clinic but they were not taking new patients yet....so...I did the only thing I thought I could do at that point: I went totally off my methimazole.....and you know what....IT WORKED......and after a month I had normal lab levels (I could still pay for my tests, and went regularly)......and I felt great! I thanked God that I was "healed" but about a month ago I found a free clinic and happened to go because of some other issue, and they found that although I felt fine, I had borderline high blood pressure. So.....another script for tests was given ( a chunk of money) and I waited a bit to see if the blood pressure was due to nervousness over housing and underemployment issues that are always plaguing me. WELL.....as of last week......I know it's another thyroid thing. I started getting those "tight throat" sensations and low level headaches....and this week I went for testing and will get the results in 7 days. In the meantime the level of headache is slowly increasing, and occasional chest soreness, and more of a squeeze feeling on my throat, and my eyes feel pressure.  I thought I was in remission!  I wonder if this means I will be diagnosed with Hashi's this time round? I had no choice except to get rid of those meds and to see what would happen, 3 months ago......because I couldn't obtain an endo.

[Barb135]

When you get your blood test results, please post them here, along with the reference ranges, which vary from lab to lab and must come from your own report.  

If you were diagnosed with Graves, via antibody testing, you will always have it, even if it goes into remission.  You also need to have antibody testing to determine if you have Hashimoto's.   While Graves Disease does not "turn into" Hashi's, it's possible to have them both; hyperthyroid does often/usually turn into hypothyroidism, which is not the same as Hashi's.

I agree that any number of things could cause your symptoms.  You will need further blood tests to find out.  

[Totie]

It is hard to tell if you have hasi's or not.

With out lab results no way of knowing. Your symptoms could be from a lot of things. Stress, thyroid, migranes.