When you start having thyroid problems

I was in my 20s when I began to have sleepless nights and anxieties. I thought it was because of my past when I was a university student who witnessed my county of birth in an unprecedented period that I had never seen in my life, had a friend shot dead by military force, a relative who fled his birthplace with fear for security and safety for his family, saw mobs full of violence racially abusing people, burning and destroying buildings, shops, houses, vehicles and those that only happen in movies. Ain’t those going to make you have nightmares? So I thought I had legitimate reasons to my sleepless nights.

I am male, Indonesian born Chinese, appeared to the world in 1975. The reason I am telling you my race, nationality and age profile is to inform people who is studying about thyroid diseases my origin. Because I believe the study about the disease is not yet effective as I am the first to publish the co-relational of super anti-oxidant with hyperthyroidism. I am not sure if race has any co-relation with the hyperthyroidism or other thyroid diseases, let us leave it to the researchers and specialists.

Overactive Thyroid

I spent my millennium year change and a few more good years in Australia. It was all usual and generally healthy life until I changed my work from office work to more physicality environment. I suddenly had weight loss and tiredness like never before. Had bad diarrhea and eye problems. I went to see a GP and told him that my eyes do not look symmetrical. The GP told me my eyes look just fine and I was stupid enough to trust him with his brief observation.

I returned to Indonesia when more was unveiling to my disbelief and my health deteriorated. I now experienced temporary paralysis when I woke up at night and one time after I was participating in a lottery coupon activity. I still did not know what hit me. One day my older cousin whose mum was celebrating her 80th birthday that I attended saw me from a distance and came directly towards me while pointing at my neck. He exclaimed: “You have an enlarged thyroid gland!”

I did not know what to say but the next thing I do is to see an internist the following day and he had my blood tested and confirmed that I had an overactive thyroid. What an unpleasant surprise. But at the same time I was relieved that I knew what caused my sleepless nights, anxieties, temporary paralysis, diarrhea, weight loss, eye problems, etc.