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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snapsy" data-source="post: 1210557" data-attributes="member: 265172">Hi [USER=315430]@Samael_Coughlan[/USER],I'm sorry to hear about your issues - that's a whole load of stuff to deal with, and I really do feel for you.  I hope that your appointments with your different healthcare professionals next week have a positive effect - I shall be thinking of you and hoping that all goes well.  Do please keep us posted.Can I share some of my own story?To cut a very long story short, when I was 26 I was - eventually - diagnosed with Graves' Disease (hyperthyroid).  I had been going to the doctor more than once a week for months, and was every time fobbed off with ' you're feeling so strange because your diabetes is out of control'.  No efforts were made to think about why this might have been.  Had it been picked up much, much sooner, it would have been so, so much easier.But hey, I remained undiagnosed until I had such a level of thyrotoxicosis that I became psychotic.  The latter, I was later told, was a direct result of the former.  Carbimazole, which I was on for 2 months, made me hallucinate.  The beta-blockers they put me on to calm my resting heart rate of 130bpm - that is not a typo - didn't agree with me.  And then they put me on antidepressants.That was May 2001.  In the July I had radioiodine to inactivate my thyroid gland.Also in July, I ended up in hospital due to a psychotic episode.  I came out of hospital just before Christmas that year.I suffered from an awful lot of non-joined-up thinking by an assortment of HCPs, although my erratic behaviour at the time would obviously not have helped them!  I didn't know I was ill, but afterwards it was pointed out to me by everyone - everyone! - how worried they had been about me and they hadn't been able to understand what was going on in my head.  Yeah, me neither.  And thanks...! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite16" alt=":banghead:" title="Bang Head    :banghead:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":banghead:" />It took me until 2006 to regain my independence, and have had two episodes of depression since, but not for years now.I am on 200mcg levothyroxine daily, and that is perfect for me.  I am tested every six months for the thyroid stuff and for the diabetic stuff.  My diabetes control is excellent.I hate that I went through all that, and put my family through all that.  The memory of it all still affects me now.  But in terms of my thyroid, and my psychiatric health, I am fit and I am well.[USER=315430]@Samael_Coughlan[/USER] , I wish you all the very, very best - do keep letting us know how it's going.Love Snapsy x</blockquote>

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