Old thread, but it's relevant to me right now. I was diagnosed with Grave's disease last fall after I lost about 30 pounds in about two months while I was commuting to work a few times a week in the summer. My cardio was great, but my muscle mass disappeared even though I was eating like a horse every day. I bonked quite a few times as well. I had muscle tremors with the slightest amount of muscle use and just never had strength. I finally hurt myself on my last commute in the fall. I don't think it was a pulled muscle... the muscle just seemed to stop working. Like permanently fatigued.

Anywho, the Dr. is pushing for the radiation treatment which seems excessive to me. My wife and her mother are herbalists and put me on a regiment of pills and somewhat restrictive diet that I've been doing the last 6 months or so. A lot of the symptoms seemed to go away like the muscle tremors and chronic insomnia. But I wasn't sold that they were working 100% so I took 3 days off from them this weekend and the insomnia and muscle tremors came back with a vengeance. I tried playing hockey last night and was useless. I had no leg drive whatsoever and my hands were stone. I was tremoring on the bench any time my arm or leg muscles were used... like standing up or picking up my water bottle.

Now that the warm weather is here I'm ready to start commuting, but I'm worried about my lack of muscle mass. I'll try to work into it, but I"m afraid the commute (30 miles rt) and the hyperthyroid will just lead to me getting hurt again.

I'm really open to any alternative ideas besides radiation and the other drugs that have potentially deadly side effects like liver failure.

btw.. I"m male. Adopted, so I have no family history.