A Little Worried

[At The End of My Rope]

I have been reading all these post about the Hypo stage of being off med's getting ready for RAI which I think that is where I'm at....hit me very hard last night...muscle very sore head felt like it was floating and my eyes are blurry...but the one thing that scares me and by no means complaining but most of you start about weight gain when you are hypo..and I had lost 11 pounds right after surgery and even this week I have lost 2 pounds being on the LID..and I keep having headaches along with tingling in my body feet going dumb and hands..along with the right side of my neck gets little sharp pains now and then...just worried something is might be going on...very hard to focus today so i've you misspelled words or I'm not making sense sorry----my eyes do not focus well..o'boy and I work in the accounting dept. lol WEEEEE how fun.......

[MJ13]

hang in there, and come vent went you need to... we are all here far ya!!  Sending you a bunch of e-hugs!!

[scarlet37]

they don't call it hypohell for nothing- hang in there!

  ~ sending angels your way~

[ChitChatNine]

Maybe it is ok for them to see you as you really are .................... but I know you need to protect your job ....... what an awful double edged sword and, yes, I know,too,that this is CANCER and there is no good or bad kind and people say things oftentimes to make THEMSELVES FEEL BETTER~ That is how I look @ it .... my counselor suggested I look at them but think to myself what they are thinking when they talk to me and then I felt much better about the whole things as I realized they are A) clueless, B) ignorant to a degree bcz they are not listening and/or not trying to learn about thyroid cancer and C) not true friends as they really can only take "so much" and then fly into their own comfort zone with flighty remarks.

This is tough.  No doubt about it.

The one thing I see in you is that you are a FIGHTER AND IF YOU CAN KEEP THAT quality alive you will continue to WIN the battle and you will be in CONTROL of this Cancer and IT will NOT CONTROL YOU!

Hang in there .. you are doing a great job!  (better than I could have !!).

Cheryl

C~

[At The End of My Rope]

you know I was thinking that this morning while my husband was driving me to work...that no matter what cancer the process and the coping with the cancer is the same. good or bad...it is still CANCER..makes me so bad..and if it is the good kind then why so much pain to get better.  Sorry maybe a bad day for me to get on this subject....But, I'm tired of feeling like this...I knew there would roads but yesterday and today have hit harder than I thought...and when I walk in the door at work I try and put a different face on, then when I get in the car when my husband picks me up it is look a whole different ballgame. just so people do not see me this way. the girls at work tell me I'm doing a great job of covering..it is very HARD!!! you smile and say I'm fine good morning. or I doing well...   :) what I really want to say is how the he__ do you think I feel.

[ChitChatNine]

Ultimately I gained 4 lbs post op to date.  Lost about 6-9 after surgery and then gained it all back + 4 !!!!  

C~

[redhed87]

I think you are now totally feeling the hypohell they were talking about.  I didn't know what everyone was talking about either until it hit me 3 weeks after TT.  It has been almost 3 weeks since my RAI and i am still struggling with the muscle aches and pains and the fogginess.  I started on meds right after RAI for the first time and my endo increased my dose to 100mcg-(only taken that for 3 days) and I am still feeling like garbage.  I cannot believe you are working......I feel useless right now.  Anyway, hope you feel better.  Also, if one more person tells me this is the "good cancer to get"  I am going to take them out!!!! LOL

[shaerich]

Some people lose weight when they go hypo.  I would not worry... although I have not been where you are, everythign you're describing I have read from one person or another.  If it will give you peace of mind, call the Doc.  That's what they're there for.  I hope things don't get too much worse and that RAI comes soon so you can getback on meds  feeling better.

[3kidsforme]

Just wanted to say I hope you get your RAI done soon and things get back to normal for you.  When I was freaked after my TT about going hypo on no meds my surgeon said to me that with all the thyroxine circulating in my body it could take up to 3 weeks to feel full effects of no meds and being hypo.  I totally understand that a lot of people are more sensitive to meds which you may be one of those.  Once again sending wishes for things to get back to normal for you ASAP.