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Does anybody experience this?

In the time my labs started showing an overactive thyroid i have been waking up with an excessively dry mouth and throat. Its not mouth breathing but I notice in general my mouth is a lot drier than usual!

No matter how much water I drink it doesnt sort the issue out and then im left with a bursting bladder as soon as I wake up (for some reason I dont wake up to pee).

I bought some dry mouth gel from my pharmacy which I have tried applying just before I sleep andnit makes no difference, I wake up with that same dry mouth/throat which makes it sore!

Im not on thyroid meds yet, just on beta blockers however my endo appt is in June so im going to ask my GP to start meds before then as its a bit away to wait.

If you experience this, how do you manage it?

My son will be 3 at the end of June and I cannot figure out which one of these to get him.

He has a trike for indoors which he likes but doesnt know how to pedal properly yet and there isnt much space to practise fully so I wanted to get him something we can take outside.

I found a balance bike on amazon which grows with them so has pedals you can add/remove and has stabilisers you can add for when they use it as a bike.

I went to a toy store today where they have bikes, trikes and balance bikes you can try out and I asked staff and he told me to get a trike but otherwise avoid a balance bike with the removable pedals as it defeats the point (but i dont think he understood what I even meant).

There is no difference between the amazon balance bike with removable pedals and a normal balance bike or normal bike.. this one just gives you the ability to switch it from one to another as he progresses.

I feel like a trike is going to have limited time and he will outgrow it quick which would have been a waste of money.

How do you decide which one to get?

A side note, my son has reasonable balance but has never worked on it so he will no doubt take a lot of getting use to a balance bike and likely fall a lot (but isnt that part of the learning?)

Last night a saw an out of hours dr as inwas seeking beta blockers. I explained my symptoms and explained the last 2 drs said my labs say I have an overactive thyroid with my T4 being 27.6 and TSH being 0.21.

I havent had any further testing for this, just the basics but my actual dr said it was an overactive thyroid and referred me to an endocrinologist and that was that.

This guy i saw yesterday told me that I needed to look at the trend graph and stated that because in 2004 when I was a kid my T4 level was 39, he was making out like just because my level is lower now in 2026, I dont have thyroid issues!

Surely if anything above 22 is abnormal then it doesnt matter what my last results were when I was a kid because this result still shows as abnormal?

Yes as a child i was also diagnosed with an overactive thyroid however after a short course of meds it seemed to go away up until now after I had severe food poisoning and post infectious issues.

He is telling me, given how bad my body was affected by the food poisoning and the fact that a lot of my other labs are off, that my level of 27.6 doesnt mean it have thyroid issues and that im likely just stressed and that i likely just have a viral infection.

My pulse was 105bpm so he prescribed me propranolol until I see my actual dr next week but otherwise I left feeling like... this doesnt sound right!

Two drs have said my results are in fact overactive thyroid and even referred me to an endocrinologist but then this one guy (who tells me he trains drs) is telling me for sure its not.

Has anyone experienced this or even heard of this?