Re: Jan--Roughish recovery period

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Thank you, , for your kind words. You must take care of

yourself. I'm worried about YOU doing too much.

I am not on any thyroid meds (yet?) - still recovering and letting

things pan out before my thyroid function tests on Tuesday,

which will be 2.5 weeks after surgery. A few days after my

surgery my heart rate went down to (for me)unheard of low levels

and I was sure that I was hypo already. Add a few leg cramps (I

feared blood clot at the time) and I was a wreck, but the surgeon

thought not, as did the endo. I go back & forth between hypo

symptoms, no symptoms, and hyper flashes, so things are in

flux, and may continue to be for another week or so, however

long a shelf-life my thyroid hormones have. I coud be making

more, if the right lobe has come to life.

I do feel better after taking the vitamins and supplements--Ester

C, anti-oxidants, Calcium with D, Cal with magnesium at

bedtime, unsweetened Cranberry concentrate with the fizzy stuff

& water for the multiple UTIs I've had (5 this year), and the

multivitamins (no iodine in any of these) and a low iodine diet

with occasional lapses. Mornings and the first few hours after

getting up are the worst.

I'm on Singulair and use Atrovent inhaler when I need it. The

albuterol and especially the prednisone made me insane. My

asthma before all of this hyper stuff started was not that bad at

all - I just started overtreating it as I thought initialy that was

where the problem was. But it becomes a problem as soon as a

cold creeps in; NYC is full of people who can't afford

economically to stay at home when they're sick, so it's even

easier than ever to catch a bug as soon as it starts going

around. I've been staying in mostly, but caught something from

my 3-year-old nephew when he came to visit. I'm not a parent

and didn't realize how liberally preschoolers pass germs

around!

Can't wait til Tuesday to see the endo, but I won't have any

answers for a few days after that. Just have to hang in there.

Thanks for helping--

Jan

> Hi Jan,

>

> I'm sorry you're having a rough time getting back on your feet.

Having asthma, which I have as well, really makes it harder

(when I was a kid I envied people who didn't have to struggle

simply to breathe!).

>

> The hardest part of Graves' for me has been slowing

down--even when I can't afford to (when I was diagnosed my

boyfriend developed a slipped disc--can't work and has no

income). But I guess you can't argue with your body over these

things.

>

> I'm on calcium, vitamin D, and actonel, to rebuild the bone I lost

while hyper (luckily I'm not in menopause yet). I was told the

vitamin D is necessary to get the most regeneration from the

calcium. I'm also scheduled to see a nutritionist to help get back

on my feet-- " rebuilding " is definitely what we need to do. (I have

heard from this group that calcium interferes with the absorption

of meds--maybe thyorid replacement hormone in

particular?--and should be taken at a different time of day.

>

> I imagine the surgery itself is a shock to your system, and so it

may take a while to get back in balance. So I guess my advice to

us all is not to push to hard.

>

> Good luck,

>