Well, this is a surprise! We thought it was going to be Graves, which my mother and I both have. We are so relieved that she is finally diagnosed. Her thyroid tests came back normal last fall, when she first started to have symtpoms. She alternates between shaking, restlessness and hysteria and deep depression, day by day (and sometimes in the same day). I insisted that she be retested this spring, because her hyperthyroid symptoms were very familiar to me.

Her ANA test (antinuclear antibodies) came back high. We are going to bring her to an endocrinologist to see if it's normal for Hashimoto's to cause high ANA levels, or if this could mean she has some other autoimmune disease as well. She doesn't have any symptoms of lupus or rheumatoid arthritis.

In my family we have Graves, Hashimoto's, MG, and severe ectopic dermatitis (eczema). Pretty scary. I just keep wondering who will come down with what next.

Abby