TM, with proper diagnosis and effective treatment, can be beaten. Patients who are diagnosed have a normal life expectancy and can ultimately lead healthy lives if proper treatment is administered. Typically, once the over-production of thyroxine is corrected and thyroid function adequately reaches a level of homeostasis, patients begin to regain muscle strength in two to four months. Depending on the severity of the TM progression symptoms may take up to a year to completely reverse the damage done by TM. Untreated TM can eventually cause severe respiratory distress or arrest possible leading to death, yet this is very rarely seen.
Thyrotoxic myopathy
Thyrotoxic periodic paralysis
Metabolic myopathy
Inflammatory myopathy
Acquired non-inflammatory myopathy
Hypokalemic periodic paralysis
Hyperkalemic periodic paralysis
Diabetic myonecrosis