My body is reacting aggressively to EVERYTHING
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Yeah, this is gonna be more of a philosophical deep dive, I know 🙄 I thought about making a clone, but honestly—it’s way too hot out, and I just can't even... 😬
Background: female, 37, diagnosed with Hashimoto's. After one phase of hormonal chaos involving *massive* hyperthyroidism, my treatment worked and things are okay now. My levels are fine, even TSH is good, but my anti-TPO is (obviously) through the roof. I go for regular checkups, just waiting to slip into hypo so I can start taking levothyroxine, which doesn't scare me. Other than that, zero health issues
Family history: just kidding 😁 Let's not go there. If it actually mattered, I'd write it down, but I really don't think it does
The issue: for the last 6 months, my body has been reacting to everything in a way that is, let's say, incredibly intense.
Examples:
1) Coldness — I'm a winter person and I generally love the cold (I love summer too, but only because I'm not some spoiled brat, I'm a normal person born in this climate and I try to enjoy the variety of where I live). But this year, I don't even know how to explain it, but the cold was just... different. Especially my hands when walking. My feet are always cold anyway, but this year I bought two pairs of those heated sock-warmers! And even when I couldn't wear them, there were times I realized I was literally tearing up from how cold my feet felt.
2) Heat — yeah, I feel like I am literally going to die in this heat. I'm a city girl, raised on asphalt, I know what heat means. I wasn't raised in Alaska, so this isn't a shock to my system; I've dealt with temperatures over 95 degrees before (like two years ago during a similar heatwave), and I handled it fine. Now, though... I don't even know how to describe this feeling of weakness, helplessness, and pure dread I've had the last few days. It's not just that I'm hot, damn it—it feels like my whole system is halfway through a shutdown.
3) Mosquito bites — mosquitoes have loved me my entire life; I'm one of those people who constantly gets bitten. And fine, they bite, it stings for two days, whatever. But this 🤷 I've always reacted strongly (huge understatement) to wasp stings, where I'd get welts that would still be visible by Christmas even if I got stung in early August. Well, now it's happening with mosquitoes. I'm getting welts the size of a quarter $1.75 that seriously last for like 10 days. And I get about ten of them. 🙄 All the time.
4) Tetanus shot — back in December I got the first dose, that went fine. In January, the first booster — total disaster. Swollen, inflamed, red, painful... lasted almost 10 days. Yesterday was the second booster, spent the whole afternoon icing it to try and dampen the reaction, but no luck. By tonight I couldn't even sleep on that arm, and I can see it's still swelling despite the ice.
While I was thinking about opening this thread, I had other examples 😳, but they slipped my mind.
What is wrong with me?
Is my autoimmunity going haywire? Can an anti-TPO level well over 500 cause these kinds of bodily reactions? Am I just old? Is it possible I'm hitting perimenopause? Is it Lupus? 😬 (My apologies to anyone who actually has Lupus, it's a Grey's Anatomy joke)
Please don't send me to the doctor. You guys know exactly what my GP would say and how that conversation would end if I walked in there telling her I have massive mosquito welts and that I'm too hot 😳
Anyone got any ideas?
Yeah, this is gonna be more of a philosophical deep dive, I know 🙄 I thought about making a clone, but honestly—it’s way too hot out, and I just can't even... 😬
Background: female, 37, diagnosed with Hashimoto's. After one phase of hormonal chaos involving *massive* hyperthyroidism, my treatment worked and things are okay now. My levels are fine, even TSH is good, but my anti-TPO is (obviously) through the roof. I go for regular checkups, just waiting to slip into hypo so I can start taking levothyroxine, which doesn't scare me. Other than that, zero health issues
Family history: just kidding 😁 Let's not go there. If it actually mattered, I'd write it down, but I really don't think it does
The issue: for the last 6 months, my body has been reacting to everything in a way that is, let's say, incredibly intense.
Examples:
1) Coldness — I'm a winter person and I generally love the cold (I love summer too, but only because I'm not some spoiled brat, I'm a normal person born in this climate and I try to enjoy the variety of where I live). But this year, I don't even know how to explain it, but the cold was just... different. Especially my hands when walking. My feet are always cold anyway, but this year I bought two pairs of those heated sock-warmers! And even when I couldn't wear them, there were times I realized I was literally tearing up from how cold my feet felt.
2) Heat — yeah, I feel like I am literally going to die in this heat. I'm a city girl, raised on asphalt, I know what heat means. I wasn't raised in Alaska, so this isn't a shock to my system; I've dealt with temperatures over 95 degrees before (like two years ago during a similar heatwave), and I handled it fine. Now, though... I don't even know how to describe this feeling of weakness, helplessness, and pure dread I've had the last few days. It's not just that I'm hot, damn it—it feels like my whole system is halfway through a shutdown.
3) Mosquito bites — mosquitoes have loved me my entire life; I'm one of those people who constantly gets bitten. And fine, they bite, it stings for two days, whatever. But this 🤷 I've always reacted strongly (huge understatement) to wasp stings, where I'd get welts that would still be visible by Christmas even if I got stung in early August. Well, now it's happening with mosquitoes. I'm getting welts the size of a quarter $1.75 that seriously last for like 10 days. And I get about ten of them. 🙄 All the time.
4) Tetanus shot — back in December I got the first dose, that went fine. In January, the first booster — total disaster. Swollen, inflamed, red, painful... lasted almost 10 days. Yesterday was the second booster, spent the whole afternoon icing it to try and dampen the reaction, but no luck. By tonight I couldn't even sleep on that arm, and I can see it's still swelling despite the ice.
While I was thinking about opening this thread, I had other examples 😳, but they slipped my mind.
What is wrong with me?
Is my autoimmunity going haywire? Can an anti-TPO level well over 500 cause these kinds of bodily reactions? Am I just old? Is it possible I'm hitting perimenopause? Is it Lupus? 😬 (My apologies to anyone who actually has Lupus, it's a Grey's Anatomy joke)
Please don't send me to the doctor. You guys know exactly what my GP would say and how that conversation would end if I walked in there telling her I have massive mosquito welts and that I'm too hot 😳
Anyone got any ideas?