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After 10 weeks of meds my levels are within the normal range and I am now waiting for the body to catch up!
I can potter about the house and on a good day shop in the village. However when I try to do any more such as a supermarket shop or spend a few hours at work (a lovely low pressure job) I quickly end up washed out and completely drained. It is if I run up against a brick wall..one minute I am fine; next I can hardly get out of the seat.
It then takes nearly a week of doing very little to get back to where I was.
I don't want to stay a lady of leisure! It upsets me that I can do so little.
Was/is any one else like this?
LindaP
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elaine_1
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LindaP
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Yours and Kay's posts have been a great help to me for learning about this condition.
Linda
marigold
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However, my feet and legs have been badly swollen, but now I can get my shoes on again, so that's an achievement. Marigold
LindaP
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You'll never believe how I take my mind off things on the bad days...I'm making Christmas cards!! For myself and to sell for local charities.
Best wishes
Linda
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LindaP
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Linda
marigold
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It's a good idea to make christmas cards Linda. Have you made them before?
I'm having trouble sleeping. I don't know why I bother going to bed some nights.
Marigold
LindaP
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Are any of you taking vitamin supplements? I was advised to by the endo and as I had been taking supplements for the last 2 years (for calcium + vit d) I kept taking them. I did check the label to see what was in them and in the state I was in nothing registered.
Looked again at the label yesterday and discovered that for the last 2 years the daily tablet has been adding 100% of daily iodine intake to my body.
Wonder if that was what sent me hyper?
My 17 year old son takes great photos, Marigold, and I use them on the front of my cards.
Hope you are having an ok day
Linda
marigold
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I've checked all my vitamin supplements, and none of them contain iodine.
It just goes to show we take supplements thinking they're doing us good, and they could be doing the opposite. I don't suppose the iodine you were taking was helping.
Thanks for the advice about listening to music in bed. I'll try that.
Marigold.
LindaP
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Just been to the endo. He says my bloods look fairly normal now after 3+ months of treatment The tiredness and constant anxiety I feel are by-products of the thyroid experience. He feels that they are not directly caused by the gland itself but by the experiences that I have had. The GP is to treat this with happy pills Citalopram and behaviour therapy. He is hopeful that soon my body will get back its harmony and I will get back out there into the big wide world!
My thyroid med has been reduced to 10mg and I go back in 2 months.
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