Subacute thyroiditis

Your thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland in your neck, just above your collarbone. It is one of your endocrine glands, which make hormones. Thyroid hormones control the rate of many activities in your body. These include how fast you burn calories and how fast your heart beats. All of these activities are your body's metabolism. If your thyroid is too active, it makes more thyroid hormones than your body needs. This is called hyperthyroidism.Hyperthyroidism is more common in women, people with other thyroid problems, and those over 60 years old. Graves' disease, an autoimmune disorder, is the most common cause. Other causes include thyroid nodules, thyroiditis, consuming too much iodine, and taking too much synthetic thyroid hormone.The symptoms can vary from person to person. They may includeBeing nervous or irritableMood swingsFatigue or muscle weaknessHeat intoleranceTrouble sleepingHand tremorsRapid and irregular heartbeatFrequent bowel movements or diarrheaWeight lossGoiter, which is an enlarged thyroid that may cause the neck to look swollenTo diagnose hyperthyroidism, your doctor will do a physical exam, look at your symptoms, and do thyroid tests. Treatment is with medicines, radioiodine therapy, or thyroid surgery. No single treatment works for everyone.NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

Disease Alternative Name

hyperthyroidism

overactive thyroid

thyrotoxicosis

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Dr. S. Kumar Kumar

Pediatrics

36 year male diagnose subacute thyroiditis 1 year back at that time thyrod scan was normal..start hyperthyroid but now his thyrod profile TSH 7.2 T3/T4 normal and BMI 27.2 and CRP 6.8...no thyroid medicine was taken by pt ...for hypothyroid...See More

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Dr. Gaurav Kalra

Internal Medicine (Ayurveda)

32 yrs female having c/o Fever off & on since 3 yrs. Her body temperature isn't more than 100.5°F . She is a k/c Hyperth...See More

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Dr. Lohitaksh Makasare

General Practice

34/female,weight 71 kg, height 156 cm. H/o ?subacute thyroiditis with hyperthyroidism 3 months back in her 6th month pos...See More

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Dr. Krishnan Pichumani

Hoshitoxicosis ,due to autoimmune thyroiditis , followed by combined features of controlled hyperthyroidism with hypothyroidism. Too early to stop neomercazole which is in low dose , but levo thyroxine can be added at 25 mcg daily. Thi...

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Dr. Gaurav Chhaya

Internal Medicine

Thyroid disorder after COVID19 infection

Patients With COVID-19 May Develop Thyroid Infection:- Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection may cause subacute thyroiditis, according to a case study published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. Subacute thyro...See More

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Dr. Gaurav Chhaya

Internal Medicine

Thyroid disorders are also notified in some population...

Dr. Shashi Kumar

Cardiology

37 year old male patient, with pain and swelling in front of neck rt side. Radieting towards rt ear. On clinical examination I found unilateral thyroid swelling. And given analgesic for few days. But not improved . All blood investigation i...See More

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Dr. Shweta Garg

Pathology

42 y female c/o pain in right lobe of thyroid since I month. TFT reveals hyperthyroidism. fnac shows many multinucleated...See More

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Dr. Sushma Sudini

Dentistry

26 yrs female patient is affected with subacute thyroiditis since 2 months......she is using cap. thyrowell....since 2 months..she is now pregnant....so does it have any effect on the pregnancy...nd fetus...r she need to continue any medica...See More

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Dr. Adapa Siva

General Practice

A 60 year old woman presents to a physician complaining of swelling in her neck. Her past medical history is significant for RA and sjögren syndrome. Physical examination reveals a mildly nodular, firm goiter. Total serum thyroxine(T4) is 1...See More

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Dr. Vijay Yadav

General Practice

How to differentiate Graves ds vs Subacute thyroiditis (the two important causes of hyperthyroidism ) if technetium nuclear scan faculties is not available??? kindly gives Ur opinions

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