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What is your diagnosis?

• you have an overactive thyroid problem

• Hyperthyroidism is an excessive concentration of thyroid hormones in tissues caused by increased synthesis of thyroid hormones, excessive release of preformed thyroid hormones, or an endogenous or exogenous extrathyroidal source
• The choice of treatment modality for hyperthyroidism caused by overproduction of thyroid hormones depends on the patient's age, symptoms, comorbidities, and preference.
• Methimazole (Tapazole) is the preferred antithyroid medication except in the first trimester of pregnancy and in patients with an adverse reaction to the medication.

• You should be evaluted by your health care provider to reveal the exact cause of hyperthrodism, if it is an autoimmune or inflammation, accordingly it will differ in the treatment
• you should do iodine uptake and thyroid antibodies

Treatment options in hyperthyrodism?

• antithyroid medication (methimazole or propylthiouracil)

• radioactive iodine (I-131) ablation of the thyroid gland
• surgical thyroidectomy
• Dose of methimazole it begins from 5 to 120 mg orally per day (can be given in divided doses)
• Dose of Propylthiouracil it begins 50 to 300 mg orally every eight hours