Hi all! I have a LONG history with Graves. First diagnosed (by my MD boyfriend, now husband 19 years ago on our 3rd date - 4th was to the lab for bloodwork 😂 he noticed the tremors and rapid heart rate)
After years, I swung the other direction to Hashimoto’s. Was on levothyroxine for a while but eventually evened out and was sub clinical for about 3 years.
About two months ago I had extreme fatigue, hand shakiness, the buzzing body feeling, dropped almost 15 pounds in a month, and just generally felt worse than ever. Seems I swung back to Graves. Started on methimazole and atenolol and finally started feeling okay again.
Until yesterday. I went out to do some weed whacking. After about 10 minutes, the arm that was supporting the weed whacker started feeling weak. It was hard to pick even a water bottle up and when I did, I shook terribly. Eventually it spread to both arms. I couldn’t do my eye makeup because the shaking when trying to control fine movements was so bad. Still can’t lift a water bottle or even my phone without shaking and my arm feels like I did a strenuous workout even though it was just 10 min of weed whacking.
Heart rate is a bit high and still taking atenolol to control it. I have bloodwork scheduled in a few days. Has anyone else experienced something like this? It’s weird to have muscle fatigue after 10 minutes and such pronounced tremors. I’m used to the little hand tremors but this is something else. 🥲