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PARALYSIS
Subj: [hyperthyroidism] "paralysis"?
Date: 11/3/00 8:38:49 AM Pacific Standard Time
From: getdawnrose@hotmail.com (dawn rose)
Reply-to: hyperthyroidism@egroups.com
To: hyperthyroidism@egroups.com
I keep meaning to ask about this.. it is something I have experienced for about 3 years, since before I initially felt ill:
when I wake up in the morning, I often cannot move for several seconds or so
because I cannot for the life of me work out where my arms and legs are. Does anyone else experience this? It is only when I am waking from a deep
sleep, or it happens more often if I sleep in the day and am dozing. I lie there trying to guess where all my limbs are.. it is the same feeling of
disorientation you get when you just can't remember what day of the week it is, only it's physical.
For example, the other morning, I woke, lying on my stomach with my arms under my pillow, my legs straight and my head turned to the
side. I THOUGHT that I was lying on my back with my legs crossed at the ankles and my arms
out to the sides, hands palm up. It is a really wierd feeling.
Is this 1) normal? 2) anything to do with hyper T? 3)just me?
DAWN
Subj: Re: [hyperthyroidism] "paralysis"?
Date: 11/3/00 9:51:59 AM Pacific Standard Time
From: Mooredaisyelaine@aol.com
Reply-to: hyperthyroidism@egroups.com
To: hyperthyroidism@egroups.com
There is a condition known as Thyrotoxic Periodic Paralysis which is similar
to another condition known as Hypokalemic Periodic Paralysis. In TPP there may or may not be a low potassium. TPP is characterized by localized or
generalized attacks of muscular weakness or flacid paralysis that last for several hours up to a few days. Most thyrotoxic patients with this disorder
have Graves' disease. It has do with the potassium level declining although it may not necessarily reach subnormal levels.
Both HPP and thyrotoxic periodic paralysis are also associated with increased ingestion of carbohydrates. Episodes may be precipitated by
ethanol, strenuous exercise in hot weather, and by the administration of insulin and or acetazolamide.
Both of these conditions are said to occur more often in men of Latin or
Asian descent and rarely in whites. However, I've known a few white women who had it so with changes in dietary patterns things might be changing.Did you say you have Werner & Ingbar's The Thyroid? There's a section on this
in the 7th edition. |