Re: Terry/ELAINE: question about embolisms

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Hi Terry and Elaine,

Well, wouldn't you know it...I called my GP back to see if she could

have the quantitative D-Dimer test done and it turns out she's out of

the office until Friday! Then I called my endo to see if I could

talk to him or his nurse about this and they can't call me back until

they get my chart from my GP! But, they are going to try to get it

for me today. I really feel in my heart-of-hearts this is from

either just my cold or being hypO, but gosh, my GP has me all freaked

out about it!

When I was younger I was a typical hypocondriac (sp?) plus I had

anxiety attacks. I worked really hard at getting over those and had

been doing really pretty well for several years about not going to

the dr and not panicking. Ever since all this Graves stuff started

though I feel like I'm going to the dr constantly and worrying more!

Thanks again for all your advice and reassurance and for letting me

vent.

> Hi ,

>

> You say you're just getting over a cold with cough, and that you've

had

> problems such as this before. As someone who frequently has had

similar

> problems, I know mine to be related to pulling a muscle in my back

or side.

> It used to be a very, very common thing for me to have this happen

for no

> apparent reason. I've long suspected it's related to the tight

muscle

> structure that seems common to us Gravsians. When we were putting

together

> the symptom list, that came out as an almost universal symptom--

I've never

> had any chiropractor or massage person work on me that didn't

comment that I

> was the tightest person they ever met!

>

> It seems to me that your testing is overkill. Try to isolate the

region of

> the pain, use a combination of hot soaks (Whole Foods has a very

good green

> minerally bath salt that seems to help) and topical treatment with

one of

> the million variations on BenGay (I use a Chinese herbal one, but I

think

> they're all fine).

>

> That all said, I could be all wet on this one--but the coughing

probably did

> it. And for me the thing that's cured the tendency to get these

pulls

> constantly has been working with a physical therapist on an exercise

> routine, which I do for an hour at least 4 nights a week, to limber

and

> strengthen my muscles. Since I'm in a highly physical profession,

and have a

> bad back, this has been necessary for me.

>

> Best of luck with it,

>

> Terry

>

> > From: " kgossett01 "

> > Reply-To: graves_support

> > Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 15:59:28 -0000

> > To: graves_support

> > Subject: ELAINE: question about embolisms

> >

> > Hi Elaine & others,

> >

> > I saw my GP yesterday with complaints about pain between my

shoulder

> > blades and pain on the front in my chest on right side. I have

had

> > problems before with this shoulder, and I'm just now finally

getting

> > over a cold where I had a lot of coughing at the end. She had a

> > chest x-ray taken to see if there was any sign of pneumonia or

> > pluresy, which there wasn't. She then was concerned that it

might be

> > a blood clot and wanted to have a CT scan done. They inject an

> > iodine contrast dye for that, so I was concerned about having that

> > done. I'm taking 50/25/25 mg PTU each day currently and I think

my

> > latest lab results (done Monday) came back with me slightly hypO,

but

> > I'm waiting to hear back from my endo on those. She did talk to

my

> > endo and he said the CT scan would be fine since my thyroid is so

> > suppressed right now.

> >

> > Can an ultrasound be used instead to detect this? Does GD or the

use

> > of PTU increase the risk of a blood clot? I also take birth

control

> > pills, which I know can potentially increase the risk of these.

> >

> > My doctor finally agreed to let me wait a day or two to see if I

felt

> > better. The pain was worst Monday but was better yesterday and is

> > about the same today as it was yesterday. I'm just freaked out

now

> > about the possibility of it being a clot!

> >

> > For the most part it doesn't hurt unless I move my arm to lift

> > something while being slightly bent over or if I take in a deep

> > breath.

> >

> > Thanks for your insights.

> >

> >

> >

> >

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