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Advice for Upcoming Surgery

by Pancake394, Jan 07, 2009 09:44AM

I have Graves Disease & am having a total thyroidectomy on Jan 20th. Does anyone have any advice or words of wisdom? Thank you!

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by Totie, Jan 07, 2009 02:00PM

To: all

Just be very "faithful" in getting your blood tested afterwards. Be ready to have patience in getting your dosage correct to where you will feel good again. It took me almost a year to find the correct dosage and 15 yrs later, still having dosage adjustments (just changed dosage again last week).

Take it easy after surgery and get plenty of rest and make sure you start eating healthy, you will gain some weight, but it will come off (at least it did for me), once your dosage is where it should be.

Good luck...You will be just fine.

by Smilerdeb, Jan 07, 2009 07:52PM

You will be fine Pancake....our thoughts will be with you, especially mine as its my birthday that day lol.
Get your Labs done...dont leave hospital without your Meds and be kind to yourself and allow yourself time to heal
Hugs xxx

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