initial hashimoto stage

Thyroid panel (2 weeks ago):
TSH: <0.005 mIU/L (0.510-4.30),
Free T4: 45.5 pmol/L (12.5-21.0)

Antibody test results:
Thyrotropin receptor antibodies (TRAbs): negative (normal)
Thyroid Peroxidase Ab (TPOAb): L <5 IU/mL (5-34)
Thyroglobulin Ab (TgAb): H 217 IU/mL (10-115)
Thyroid stimulating immunoglobulin (TSI): <1% negative (normal)

Other tests:
Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate: 4 mm/hr (1-10)

Hi all, I want to ask has anyone with Hashimoto experienced hyperthyroidism before, at the initial stages. I understand some people with Hashimoto experience a roller-coaster ride, with hypo to hyper and back. Whereas most people would be just hypo all the way.
I read somewhere that at the initial stage, the antibodies is attacking your thyroid, thus hormone leak into the blood and you become hyper. After some time when your thyroid has been damaged, you become hypo as your thyroid cant produce thyroid hormones.
To be honest, I rather be hyper than hypo and I'm afraid in the future i'll be hypo. Would the above results, be definite for Hashimoto.

Post Edited (travisco) : 5/22/2015 10:09:38 AM (GMT-6)

Don't normally check this board, but yes I had one blood test which showed I was hyper rather than hypo. I think my TSH was 0.1, but I don't remember it very well. I think my GP told me over the phone; I never got a letter or anything like that. But I do know that he prescribed me carbimazole - he's hasty like that. I never took the carbimazole and still ended up slowly going hypo - by early next year my TSH was 11.5. That persuaded me to go on levothyroxine and stay on it.

Oddly enough I don't remember feeling any different when I was hyper as opposed to hypo. Had no more energy, that's for sure. But maybe that's 'cos I was still suffering from the after-effects of tapering off Prednisolone and Oxycodone.

Absolutely no idea where I'm at now. I want another thyroid panel and I'm going to have to persuade the new GP that I haven't met to give me one: that'll be fun.

Edit: Sorry, it's not obvious from my post why I got a Hashimoto's diagnosis. It actually began with my GI, who ran a thyroid blood test in 2011. I didn't even know about this until he casually told me "oh, and your thyroid antibodies were through the roof and you'll almost certainly develop hypothyroidism in the future", or words to that effect. My Crohn's took yet another turn for the worse (after taking so many already) and for the next two years I forgot about it. In Feb 2013 I had surgery which put me in remission. Remembered what my GI had said, and brought it up with my GP. It was my GP who ended up diagnosing me.

Post Edited (NiceCupOfTea) : 5/22/2015 1:12:13 PM (GMT-6)