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Suffer Night Sweating. Taking Methamazole And Adderall. Suffer Mild Depression Due To Divorce. What Can Be Done?
Question: 36 year old male. XXXXX. 5'11. 178lbs. Active, exercises 3x/week & good physical shape. Married for 9 years, but currently separated & divorcing. 2 children (boy 8, girl 3.5) Issue: Night sweating. Sweating of head & upper torso, sometimes to the point of soaking shirt & sheets. Would like to reduce/control this issue. Current conditions & meds: Hyperthyroidism (5mg methamazole daily), ADHD (45mg adderall AM daily), OSA complicated by smaller than average airway & deviated septum (CPAP/BIPAP used frequently for 3 years, but discontinued use 7 months ago), mild depression due to divorce & job (weekly therapy sessions past 11 months & ongoing, 45mg Wellbutrin for 3 months then taken off by treating physician 8 months ago). Family (extended to grandparents, aunts & uncles) medical history: stroke (paternal), hyper & hypo thyroidisim (maternal), high cholesterol (maternal), depression (maternal), bi-polar (paternal).
It is important to ensure your thyroid is in good order.
It is also important that the diagnosis of hyperthyroidism is correct. it is likely to be so, especially if an endocrinologist made the diagnosis and started methimazole.
If the over-active thyroid is not controlled properly, then a lot of the symptoms you are reporting are possible.
Often 5 mg of methimazole suffices in maintenance mode. However it is necessary to establish your current thyroid status by doing the following blood tests:
CBC with auto-diff
CMP
TSH
Free T4
Total T4
Total T3
T3 uptake
If these come back normal, then all the symptoms that you are experiencing are unlikely due to the thyroid.
Once you are stable on thyroid management, you can ask your endocrinologist regarding other options to treat your hyperthyroidism. For example, radiation is one.
For more information, you may wish to peruse this link :
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It is also important that the diagnosis of hyperthyroidism is correct. it is likely to be so, especially if an endocrinologist made the diagnosis and started methimazole.
If the over-active thyroid is not controlled properly, then a lot of the symptoms you are reporting are possible.
Often 5 mg of methimazole suffices in maintenance mode. However it is necessary to establish your current thyroid status by doing the following blood tests:
CBC with auto-diff
CMP
TSH
Free T4
Total T4
Total T3
T3 uptake
If these come back normal, then all the symptoms that you are experiencing are unlikely due to the thyroid.
Once you are stable on thyroid management, you can ask your endocrinologist regarding other options to treat your hyperthyroidism. For example, radiation is one.
For more information, you may wish to peruse this link :
WWW.WWWW.WW
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Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
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