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Feb 12, 2004 - 8:53 am
i have already had one surgery to remove half my thyroid after a suspicious lump was found.after this i got the news it was cancer.until the next surgery my doctor put me on synthroid.up until starting this medicine i was doing fine.now i'm shakey,crying all the time heart pounding etc.i told my doctor this'my levels were tested and iam very overactive.he reduced the synthroid to 50 but i'm stillvery shaky.i feel like i'm loseing it.the doctor says i will have to stick it out for now and we'll "fine tune the medicine after the second surgery".any advice welcome. |
Joined: Oct 2003
I am sorry to tell you that what the dr says is true.I've been operated for almost 16 years and that is how it feels because now is when the dr starts going up or now and doing the blood test until it gets normal. Right now I take Synthroid 300mg and yesterday I went to see my dr and he saw that my heart was raceing a bit and it's because the meds are high but I've already had 3 treatments and the last one was last year so the dr prefers to leave them high to try to avoid the cancer of coming back.I hope tou are able to cope with it until they normalize it.Goodluck
Joined: Mar 2003
It sometimes seem hard but believe me that all is worth it to not have the Cancer. When you get to the point where you are feeling normal you will be O.K. I have to go off the Synthroid every summer for a body scan and this will be summer number four. The body changes so much and people do not realize what we can go through. You can tuff it out even though it seems very hard and I experience that each summer. They will get the synthroid regulated and life is good. You are feeling what all feel that no longer have a Thyroid. Cindy