Re: Letter to the family/was rage/thank you all;

[Guest guest]

Hi everyone,

I can only manage 1 letter now, and I just want to say thank you

for your responces. I " m still incredebly weepy. When I pull myself

together I will write back and tell how things are going. I am

getting labs soon so maybe something will give after I get the

reports back.

Again thanks for responding, you guys . It realy means alot. OK

I'm still crying so I will write back soon.

Luci

> Hi Pam,

>

> I couldn't get there either. Perhaps whoever wrote it will add it

to the

> Files page? Ought to be there I think!

>

> Terry

>

> > From: " Pam B " <PamB@w...>

> > Reply-To: graves_support

> > Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 07:54:16 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)

> > To: <graves_support >

> > Subject: Re: graves rage

> >

> > Hi Luci, Terry is right there is a good letter to the spouses of

graves and

> > it used to live here:

> > http://www.webpak.net/~deecee/spouseletter.htm

> >

> > but is either down today or gone completely, I don't know.

> >

> > There are also these two letters, about halfway down this post -

if you can

> > t get them let me know and I'll copy and paste them for you:

> > http://www.mediboard.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t

> >

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[Guest guest]

Luci,

I just happen to be here on a break , when your post came through.

Please remember this is only temporary. Remember back when you were feeling

great ? Those are the thyroid numbers you will learn to get back to and then

stay there. It can be done.

But when we let the doctors over or under medicate us, how you are feeling

right now is the result.

We each have a 'set point' and it is some where inside of the normal range.

The doctor that tells you that you ARE normal at any old place within that

huge range is just plain wrong and does not know much about thyroid.

There is a huge group of us here that will all tell you the same thing. And

you could search other thyroid sites with experienced members , and they

will all tell you the same thing.

As soon as those lab results come back we can help you. THEN after you get

back to 'right' , you will be able to learn how to insist on staying there.

Right now please know it is only your thyroid talking and give yourself

permission to do as little as possible just for right now. It can get better

in not too much time as soon as you get the lab report.

Though YOU have to be willing to stick to your guns and insist on being at

your set point once you get there. This happens no matter what treatment we

choose.

Thank God you and I still have a thyroid gland and we CAN get back to right

I feel so bad for women I see that have no gland left, and their doctors

tell them they are normal and they have no way of getting the hormone they

so desperately need. So... see?... it really is not so bad on our side of

all this.

-Pam L -