Hyperthyroid and coping with bereavement

Hormones
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Hi everyone.

I have been reading this site for a while now and have been so glad of it.

Last year i lost my husband and dad with in a week of one another my husband on the 8th of April and dad on the 15th.

In 2002 my doctor noticed a lump in my neck and sent me for a biopsy and a scan that revealed a multinodule goitre at the time i was told to leave well alone .Now thinking back over the years since 2002 i was suffering the same symptoms off and on but at the time had to keep going as i had to care for my disabled husband who was paralyzed from the waist down. Over the years i aslo had palpatations aching muscles joints and times when i had no energy at all but shrugged it off as i thought it was stress. then last year after losing my husband i was never away from my doctors ,my dr thought it was severe depression but i new it was something different ,and it wasnt untill i got really bad palatations in town and went straight to my dr surgery asking for someone to see me urgently ,they put an ecg moniter on me and the next thing i was in an ambulance with blue flashing lights with a heart beat of 140 beats a min.In hospital they brought my heart rate down and did blood tests the first one said i was border line hyper and i was aloud home ,so i booked to go to Majorca with my daughters and gran/kids for a week i was on no medication for this just being on bordr line..On the last night of the holiday i started with the palapatations again and was rushed into hospital once again ,they brought my heart rate down but i developed pneumonia and was there for 10 days .Back at home my dr came out to see me and my second blood test revealed my thyroid was 86. some thing i was put on carbimazole diltiazem clopidogrel and omeprazole ,the carbimzole made me itch so much i was then put on propylthiouracil ,i cant remember the dosage now as my memory is terrible at the moment .At the moment i am only on one propy..for my thyroid and only just feeling much better,the journey while it was be brought down is something i cant discribe it was awful ,my family was worried to death over me .i see my Ando in jan 2011 and have been told i need rai .

i would be grateful for them that have had rai if they could tell me if all the symptoms we all suffer fineally go away .

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Hello Suzy, what a truly terrible time you have had, I don't know how you have kept going for so long. I have never had RAI so can't advise you about that, I only take Carbimazole, but I am very sure that you will most certainly get better. Do go easy on yourself, you will eventually feel stronger than you have done for years. All the best and do let us know how you get on. Bess.

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Hi Susy. I'm sorry you're having such a sad time.

My thyroid condition flared up when I lost my mum, my GP insisted it was anxiety and depression, but I knew it was more than that. Anyway he believed me when my thyroid levels went through the roof. I had RAI last Friday, so it's too soon to say whether it's worked or not. I feel fine at the moment. Bit sick of being in solitary confinement, but the time will soon pass.

Keep in touch.

Marigold.

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Thankyou Bess, its only people with this that understand how you are feeling,even doctors think once you are on medication your symptoms have gone. My doctor said i was on a very powerful drug and wrote to my endo for a urgent appoinment as i was so ill when my thyroid level was coming down .thank goodness i am feeling a bit better now .I still get terrible aching joints especially in a morning which wake me up and my hands shake now and then but at least i am able to get off to sleep with out a sleeping tablet.One thing that bothers me will my memory return to normal as last year i thought i had alzimers .I am not much good on a compter self taught so please bear with me .