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Registered: 11-16-2004
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Thu, 12-23-2004 - 10:59pm

I think I need help please! It seems since I went off the Levoxyl on my FNP's advise for another accurate lab test to test my TSH levels and others, I am SOOOOOOOOO irritable. Is that a sign of hypothyroidism? It just seems that the slightest thing can set me off. Where I used to be more playful it seemed, I am cranky! I am soooooooooo tired from mowing the lawn today and working in my garden. Thats all I did. I can barely keep my eyes open and it's not even 8:00 pm. GEEZ! All I wanna do is cry. I am so tired of being tired and so tired of everything just really pissing me off that shouldn't. Someone please ehlp with advice. Is this normal for thyroid problems?

Please don't tell me it's holiday stress because it isn't. Somethings wrong with me. My kid is laughing up a storm which usually brings me nothing but delite and I am so mad cause he is making so much noise. My husband just turned on his surround system LOUD (but that always makes me cranky) and I slammed the door so I don't have to hear his movie. I am just gonna sit right down and cry here. Cna't stand being this way. PLease help me with some suggestions. I am NOT depressed for any reason. Just so tired and iritable and cranky it's not funny.

Sandy

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Registered: 11-16-2004
In reply to: tazlady31
Thu, 12-23-2004 - 11:19pm

PS...
If it helps, I just took 2 tests linked to this site about depression and stress. I passed both with flying colors. As in, I don't have either.

Sandy

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Registered: 11-09-2001
In reply to: tazlady31
Fri, 12-24-2004 - 10:45am

Sandy - you need to take your thyroid hormone. I'm not a doctor or expert at all but I know that you need to take it. You're hypothyroid but your doctor over medicated you. Instead of just cutting back on the meds, like any COMPETENT doctor would so, she cut them completely. It makes no sense. What you are experiencing are symptoms of hypothyroidism and it's only going to get worse. I can't advise you to go against your doctor's orders because I have no basis to do that but, knowing what I know and having been through what I've been through, I would tell you what I would do: I would go back on the Levoxyl myself and find myself a new doctor ASAP!!! I would sit down witht he phone bok today and start calling endos until I found one that could take me.

How long have you been off it now? About a week? It will take about a week before you start to feel better if you started taking it again today. And it will probably take another week or two before you started getting back into the hyper symptoms so try to see another doctor next week if you can. This one that has taken you off your meds is a crackpot!! Forgive me if I offend you with this judgement but I hate to see you going through this for NO REASON other than the fact that your doctor has no idea what she's doing.

Your body is not making enough thyroid hormone on it's own. It needs this hormone to exist and function normally. You aren't adding something extra when you take it, you are replacing what it would make on it's own but can't. The key is to find the right dose that brings you within the normal range of between 1.0 and 2.0, while you're feeling good and experiencing as few symptoms as possible. There is no need to take you off it completely. It doesn't make sense. And you're the one who's suffering for it. Not your doctor. So, that's what I would do. Think it over. I know you're in the worst possible shape for having to make important decisions but trust me, I've been there too. And you have to use everything you've got to focus on what makes sense for YOU!!! What do you think? Cathy

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Registered: 08-25-2004
In reply to: tazlady31
Mon, 12-27-2004 - 12:25pm
Sandy, I know SO LITTLE about thyroid problems and symptoms that I don't feel qualified to answer your post. However, I did read what Cathy wrote to you, and she makes a lot of sense. Also, I want you to know that although I can't give you any answers, I can tell you that I've felt how you felt when you wrote this post, and I just wanted you to know that. It's so doggone frustrating to feel out of whack and not get help for it!!! I've even begun to second guess myself! Am I REALLY feeling so bad? Do I really have this lump in my neck? I mean to the point where I go to the mirror and look and have to see it to believe that this "disease" is not all in my head! Unfortunately, the doctors that we've come in contact with have a lot to do with the way we are feeling and it's so wrong. I read Cathy's post a few minutes ago about "This is how it's supposed to be" and thought how great for her that she's found someone who CARES enough for their patients (instead of their pockets) that she's getting the treatment that she NEEDS! I thank God that I found this board! I've wanted to just sit down and cry and GIVE UP because I FEEL there's something wrong with the way I'm feeling, but when these doctors give us the brush off, I begin to doubt whether there really IS any wrong with the way I'm feeling! Food should NOT get stuck in my throat daily, neither should vitamins! I should NOT be going from freezing cold to sweating hot in the same hour sitting in the same the same room!
This last Endo's attitude seemed to change on me when he asked me why I took Xanax (for sleep and periodical anxiety) and why I have a prescription for Darvocet (I have deteriorating discs in my spine which can be quite painful at times). I was honest with him when I told him that I seldom feel the need to take to Darvocet, but I did take the Xanax because I can't sleep without it. I got the feeling like he believed I was a chronic complainer or something. Maybe I imagined that, who knows, but the thing is that as a patient, no doctor should ever make either you or I feel the way we have been.
I wish you the best.
Carole
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Registered: 11-09-2001
In reply to: tazlady31
Mon, 12-27-2004 - 10:05pm
Hi Carole - you are not alone when you start to feel it's all in your head or that you're second guessing if you really see or feel something. It's just such a shame that we can't all find competent and caring doctors the first time out. I've posted elsewhere on this site that the average thyroid patient sees 3 or 4 doctors before finding one that will listen and treat her the way she needs to be treated. So it is not in our heads at all - although it does get to seem that way. Hang in there!! Cathy :)