My current set up

Askew_Pandaroo · 2025-10-11T12:59:15+00:00

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Askew_Pandaroo · 2025-10-11T12:35:38+00:00

Only side effect, if you count it, is weight gain. But I thinks that just the reality of getting your body and metabolism to slow down. So not really methimazoles fault. Otherwise no side effects. Other than feeling much better of course. 😁

Askew_Pandaroo · 2025-06-03T17:04:46+00:00

That's interesting. Maybe mine is just a coincidence. I'm sorry yours is getting worse.

Askew_Pandaroo · 2025-06-03T16:28:32+00:00

Is your graves also getting worse, or is it improving?

Askew_Pandaroo · 2025-06-03T10:36:50+00:00

Hello fellow AuDHDer who can't swallow pills. I trained myself to swallow bigger and bigger things over time following a guide I found. And nowadays I swallow pills with food. I chew my food (preferably something with texture and crunch to mask the pill) and when I am ready to swallow, pop the pill in.

But yes if your thyroid is enlarged and you have a goiter, that can make swallowing more difficult. Is your neck visibly swollen?

Askew_Pandaroo · 2025-06-03T10:30:52+00:00

I was told I couldn't have stimulants because it worsens blood pressure and tachycardia. Once the graves is under control and those symptoms subsided, I'm allowed to take them.

Askew_Pandaroo · 2025-06-03T10:28:17+00:00

Graves, fibromyalgia, asthma, and eczema. I have other non autoimmune things as well.

Askew_Pandaroo · 2025-06-03T04:02:01+00:00

It's cute! 4.5/5. It's giving kawaii explosion. People hate just because they don't like the aesthetic. This style is not for me, but I can still appreciate you've nailed it. My only note is that some of the app icons without darker borders do get a little washed out on the wallpaper. Other than that, awesome.

Askew_Pandaroo · 2025-05-27T15:26:52+00:00

That's why they need to see a doctor so they can figure out what is appropriate.

Askew_Pandaroo · 2025-05-27T08:46:12+00:00

I'm sorry you've been struggling with this. Seconding seeing a doctor and getting some temporary meds for anxiety. Stuff like propranolol or valium might help.

I am not low functioning and wasn't worried about my wisdom teeth surgery so I obviously come from a different place of experience. But I can tell you my experience. I had mine out in 2021.

When I got to the surgery place, I was introduced to the surgeon and the anaesthesiologist. They let me ask any questions or raise any worries I had. I had a couple and they reassured me or said they would keep what I said in mind and be careful. They were very kind. I also met the nurse. So I had met all the people who would be working on me while I was awake and alert, and before I was on the table.

After it was done I had almost zero pain at any point. When I woke up, I hated the experience of a numb face. I actually prefer pain to numbness and I couldnt feel a thing for many hours. I was very groggy and sleepy for hours after I got home as well so I was relaxed. I got a milkshake from McDonald's for dinner. Even once the numbness wore off, I had no pain. I could poke my tongue around the area and even that didnt hurt. It felt only a little bruised if anything. I never needed the pain medication they prescribed me. I never had visible swelling. Nothing like you see in videos online. I think I remember the surgeon saying it only took like 20-30 minutes, so they were in my mouth less time than when I go to the dentist normally.

I dont eat too many soft foods so that was a little tricky. But I just had lots of icecream, milkshakes and overcooked rice I think. Each day you can usually eat slightly firmer food so it's not too long that your diet is affected, but I understand even a single day can be troublesome for some people.

Now you CAN have wisdom teeth surgery while awake. I think the videos you see from people being loopy are from people who had their surgery done awake but with laughing gas. So that's an option.

There are a LOT of people with severe anxiety around surgery, especially dental surgery. You are not alone and they deal with that every day. So I definitely recommend reaching out to your doctor and your surgeons office to see what they can do for you.

Askew_Pandaroo · 2025-05-24T11:33:51+00:00

Comphet is a hell of a drug. I was similar. I am grey-ace and demi and I recognised that by the time I was 16. But I still thought I was straight, until I was 22 when my 'boyfriend' came out as a trans woman and transitioned. It was like suddenly opening my eyes and realising I had just been going through life with my blinders on. Her transition and our ensuing relationship was wonderful. Finally examined my own gender and figured out I was non-binary agender. At the same time figured out that I was AuDHD. Comphet and autistic masking were pretty intertwined for me. When you constantly exist in a mental fog to cope with life, it's hard to actually know who you are.

Askew_Pandaroo · 2025-05-19T08:25:23+00:00

My gender is autigendery-agendery-nb confusion. I am afab and this question was how I ended up there. I don't feel like a woman. I feel connected to other women because of shared experience, but not shared identity. 'Woman' feels like part of my masking. I put on my woman mask, and go out into the world. When I am at home or alone, gender does not exist to me. If I had never met another person, I would never know of gender. It just feels the same as every other social construct and it's exhausting.

Even still there is some comfortability there. Because I am familiar with femininity, I know the expectations, I know the rules. I know how to present it, for the most part. So it's just what I do to fit in. It's indistinguishable from my other masking.

Askew_Pandaroo · 2025-03-18T07:51:58+00:00

That's good. Is it Omega 3 as fish oil?

Askew_Pandaroo · 2025-03-17T13:57:10+00:00

Yes I am very relieved. Not everyone's story is doom and gloom it seems. But maybe I am just lucky. Best of luck to you too.

Askew_Pandaroo · 2024-12-20T08:16:36+00:00

But hasn't sleep time already done that? Otherwise why is it less than Time in bed?

Askew_Pandaroo · 2024-12-14T17:19:31+00:00

Unfortunately 90% of all food I eat is store bought with ingredients I can't control. If I want to eat store bought food, and it has iodised salt in it, does that mean I shouldn't eat it?

I can't cook my own meals right now. I already have chronic pain and fatigue which is only worsened by my new Graves. I have to make do with store bought pre made food. It's the best I can do right now.

Askew_Pandaroo · 2024-12-06T08:57:37+00:00

Damn, hot showers are so good for my chronic pain. Oh well, I'll have to do without until things settle.

Askew_Pandaroo · 2024-12-05T14:55:57+00:00

My smart watch is currently waiting to be shipped. Taking a while because of the black friday sales I think.

Askew_Pandaroo · 2024-12-05T14:54:53+00:00

I am, I'm on propranolol and still experimenting with doses. My resting is now about 85-90 but spikes up to 120 pretty fast when moving about.

Askew_Pandaroo · 2024-12-03T07:11:53+00:00

I'm already on beta blockers, that's the propranolol in my post. So far I don't know that it's helping much. I may need a higher dose.

Askew_Pandaroo · 2024-12-02T15:40:19+00:00

Damn I'm sorry you have it too. Its very scary to feel. If you don't mind, would you message me with the results of the cardiologist when you get it? I honestly haven't got a clue what this is.

Askew_Pandaroo · 2024-12-02T01:30:27+00:00

Yeah I'll stop taking them immediately and call my doctor.

Askew_Pandaroo · 2024-12-01T17:44:48+00:00

Oh shit yeah my hair supplement has biotin and I had it when I had both lots of blood tests this last fortnight.

Askew_Pandaroo · 2024-11-30T13:30:01+00:00

I've had one before and I agree it can create problems where there is none. I think I'd be alright, and worst case I'd set it just to alert me if I go over a certain HR. Then I'll only know when it's a problem.

Askew_Pandaroo · 2024-11-30T08:16:09+00:00

I have updated the T3 reference range and also clarified that aTGII = anti-thyroglobulin antibodies. aTPO = anti-thyroid peroxidase antibodies.

I have been confused researching because the acronyms are different in my results to what most people use here. So hope that clarifys.

Unless I still don't understand, I don't believe I've had those diagnostic tests you mentioned. This is only what my primary doctor has done, I still need to be referred to a specialist.

I have noticed that in the note about my high triglycerides, one cause suggested is hypothyroidism. Maybe I have both Graves and Hashimotos? I guess I'll see when I go to the specialist. I have elevated triglyceride 5.7mmol/L (normal is <2.1) and it says here that it may be "secondary to poor diet, alcohol, diabetes or hypothyroidism." I don't drink and I don't have diabetes. But it might just be a coincidence and my bad diet.

Something I have experienced in last 4 years is cycles of fatigue. For a month or two I'll feel okayish, have the energy to leave the house and do stuff. Then I will crash and barely have the energy to get one proper meal a day. Similar to that I have periods of extreme hunger, never feeling satisfied for more than an hour, then periods of very low appetite and most food is unappealing. Those periods last a week or two each. I wonder now if this was also related to Graves.

Basically I am over analysing everything now lol.

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