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Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
I had radioiodine treatment to render my thyroid inactive in 2001, and have been on thyroxine tablets since.
Back in the summer I experienced some absorption issues affecting my daily dose of 200mcg Levothyroxine, making me hypOthyroid. At the time my dosage wasn't increased, but I changed the way I was taking it (i.e. on an empty stomach and without the side-order of cod-liver oil).
Roll on to now, and I'm now hypERthyroid. All the symptoms of this which have raised their head over the last few months I had considered to be down to 'other' things, i.e.:
Hot flushes and night sweats - I put these down to early menopause.
Weight loss and hunger - I put this down to increased exercise (have been swimming and biking like a Brownlee).
Climbing the walls - I put this down to being physically frustrated at temporarily not being able to run (poorly foot).
Lack of concentration - I put this down to being rubbish at work.
Mood swings/anger/unreasonable and scary thoughts and behaviour - I put this down to being a bad person.
It's obvious, now I look back, that I haven't been 'right' for a while. Wish I'd realised way sooner than this.
I completely lost it on Monday. It was awful. Flipped out completely. I'm fine, most of the time I'm fine, but I'm very unpredictably volatile right now. The last two occasions where I've been hypER, I was experiencing anxiety attacks - which I haven't had this time, perhaps because I've been burning off so much of my manic energy with exercise.
Thankfully I had had some tests 2 weeks ago, and as I wailed to my husband on Monday 'I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME' I remembered that it might be useful to know those results. So I rang the endocrinology department, completely beside myself, and got a call back to tell me to reduce my thyroxine dose smartish.
I'm feeling very vulnerable and clingy. The good news is that now I know that my state of mind is temporarily not as it should be I am trying to avoid things that will make me want to flip. That's quite a lot of things. And with hindsight I see that I've not been quite myself since a while before Christmas, and the last fortnight, in particular, has been pants.
Should be back to normal soon.
Am posting this here a) because I'd like a hug, please and b) just to state the obvious by getting it out there to forum members at large (not just thyroid patients) that if the way you are feeling doesn't feel right, perhaps it could mean that it isn't right, and might need looking into. My mistake had been to think that every 'symptom', as I now know it to have been, was *just* a lifestyle factor.....
Thanks for listening!
Love Snapsy
I had radioiodine treatment to render my thyroid inactive in 2001, and have been on thyroxine tablets since.
Back in the summer I experienced some absorption issues affecting my daily dose of 200mcg Levothyroxine, making me hypOthyroid. At the time my dosage wasn't increased, but I changed the way I was taking it (i.e. on an empty stomach and without the side-order of cod-liver oil).
Roll on to now, and I'm now hypERthyroid. All the symptoms of this which have raised their head over the last few months I had considered to be down to 'other' things, i.e.:
Hot flushes and night sweats - I put these down to early menopause.
Weight loss and hunger - I put this down to increased exercise (have been swimming and biking like a Brownlee).
Climbing the walls - I put this down to being physically frustrated at temporarily not being able to run (poorly foot).
Lack of concentration - I put this down to being rubbish at work.
Mood swings/anger/unreasonable and scary thoughts and behaviour - I put this down to being a bad person.
It's obvious, now I look back, that I haven't been 'right' for a while. Wish I'd realised way sooner than this.
I completely lost it on Monday. It was awful. Flipped out completely. I'm fine, most of the time I'm fine, but I'm very unpredictably volatile right now. The last two occasions where I've been hypER, I was experiencing anxiety attacks - which I haven't had this time, perhaps because I've been burning off so much of my manic energy with exercise.
Thankfully I had had some tests 2 weeks ago, and as I wailed to my husband on Monday 'I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME' I remembered that it might be useful to know those results. So I rang the endocrinology department, completely beside myself, and got a call back to tell me to reduce my thyroxine dose smartish.
I'm feeling very vulnerable and clingy. The good news is that now I know that my state of mind is temporarily not as it should be I am trying to avoid things that will make me want to flip. That's quite a lot of things. And with hindsight I see that I've not been quite myself since a while before Christmas, and the last fortnight, in particular, has been pants.
Should be back to normal soon.
Am posting this here a) because I'd like a hug, please and b) just to state the obvious by getting it out there to forum members at large (not just thyroid patients) that if the way you are feeling doesn't feel right, perhaps it could mean that it isn't right, and might need looking into. My mistake had been to think that every 'symptom', as I now know it to have been, was *just* a lifestyle factor.....
Thanks for listening!
Love Snapsy