Can anyone tell me ANYTHING about having a hyperactive thyroid?!

Hyperactive means your thyroid is TOO active!.!.!.you will likely lose weight (even if you don't need to), and your heart could race, and you might feel faint, but when your hormones are out of whack, you feel awful!.

You don't need to stop nursing for now!.!.!.perhaps once they get you on meds to reduce your hormone output by the thyroid, they will want you to stop until they bring the numbers into a normal range!.

I have plenty of thyroid experience!.!.!.only mine is hypo, which means under-active!.!.!.!.!.I have Hashimoto's Disease!.!.!.basically my immune system began destroying my thyroid!.!.!.!.I am also undergoing lots of tests, etc!.!.!.but under-active thyroid runs on both sides of my family, so I am way too familiar with it!.

Don't be scared, it isn't that big of a medical deal anymore!. And for once, good news on the medicine--they have been using it for more than 50 years, and it is very cheap!.!.!.

Good luck, and give that baby a hug for me! I wish mine were small enough to still nurse, but they discourage that in high school, thank goodness! ; )Www@Answer-Health@Com

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The thyroid provides a lot of different functions to the body, but the main one is your personal metabolism!. If you have a hyperactive thyroid, it just means that it is producing a natural body chemical that drives your metabolism insanely high, causing you to burn calories easier, but people with hyperactive thyroids tend to be rather thin, and the super-boosted metabolism tends to make it hard to gain any weight!.

A hypoactive thyroid is where not enough of the chemical is being produced and these people tend to have a super slow metabolism and gain weight easily!.

The doctor will probably run a series of tests to make sure that is what it is, and he will probably give you a shot/pills to counteract the overproduction of the metabolism chemical!.

It's nothing to be scared about!. In super super bad cases, it can turn into something bad, but you have nothing to worry about if the doctors are just now noticing that you might have a slightly hyperactive thyroid!.

Women over the age of 50 should go in for yearly thyroid test checks as it is, just in case!. And don't take my word on this, but I seriously doubt that the hyperactive thyroid will affect you being able to breastfeed your child!.!.!.but double check with the doctor on that,Www@Answer-Health@Com

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The term hyperthyroidism refers to any condition in which there is too much thyroid hormone in the body!. In other words, the thyroid gland is overactive!.Thyroid hormone generally controls the pace of all of the processes in the body!. This pace is called your metabolism!. If there is too much thyroid hormone, every function of the body tends to speed up!. It is not surprising then that some of the symptoms of hyperthyroidism are nervousness, irritability, increased perspiration, heart racing, hand tremors, anxiety, difficulty sleeping, thinning of your skin, fine brittle hair, and muscular weakness

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