Question about muscle and joint pain
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Hi, I am new to this site and and new to this thing called cancer. I was diagnosed about a month ago with papillary thyroid cancer and had a TT on April 12. I stayed overnight in the hospital. I had my post-op appt on the 20th but I was very upset because my doc had been double-booked and I felt hurried out the door. A lot of my questions went unanswered and I feel quite confused as to what will take place next. I am going to call the endocrinologist in the morning and make a sooner appt. to clarify things. I did post an earlier post about some weird symptoms to see if anybody else out there had experienced them also. Thanks, Buffalo130 -
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That was probably scary for you! It could be that you are dehydrated. I also find that I get more muscle spasms when stressed. I had a lot of shoulder pain radiating into my head after surgery. Needed morphine for 24 hours to relax the muscles. Vicodan didn't touch it. You may need to try another pain meds....percocet maybe?? Try drinking tonic water as this is supposed to help muscle spasms. It may be also a sign of being hypothyroid. Hope that you get to feeling better and find out what this is. If you have more questions please ask.....we aren't your doctor but we do understand!
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Thanks for your reply.weberdns said:Hi and welcome!
That was probably scary for you! It could be that you are dehydrated. I also find that I get more muscle spasms when stressed. I had a lot of shoulder pain radiating into my head after surgery. Needed morphine for 24 hours to relax the muscles. Vicodan didn't touch it. You may need to try another pain meds....percocet maybe?? Try drinking tonic water as this is supposed to help muscle spasms. It may be also a sign of being hypothyroid. Hope that you get to feeling better and find out what this is. If you have more questions please ask.....we aren't your doctor but we do understand!
Sue
Thanks for your reply. I really don't have much time right now to answer back because my fiance is taking me out to a belated birthday dinner. I was still in early recovery on my real birthday(April 18). My muscle pain is somewhat better since I have been on 100mcg of thyroid hormone. I still have weird jerks and muscle movements. I called today to get an earlier appt. with the endo doc because I am very confused about what the next step is for treatment. I was very glad that they had an opening on Thursday. I really want some answers about my treatment. Gotta Go, Buffalo130 -
Please update usBuffalo13 said:Thanks for your reply.
Thanks for your reply. I really don't have much time right now to answer back because my fiance is taking me out to a belated birthday dinner. I was still in early recovery on my real birthday(April 18). My muscle pain is somewhat better since I have been on 100mcg of thyroid hormone. I still have weird jerks and muscle movements. I called today to get an earlier appt. with the endo doc because I am very confused about what the next step is for treatment. I was very glad that they had an opening on Thursday. I really want some answers about my treatment. Gotta Go, Buffalo13
When you can! The muscle jerkk sounds like some type of medication reaction0 -
Hi, and hope you are feeling better.Buffalo13 said:Thanks for your reply.
Thanks for your reply. I really don't have much time right now to answer back because my fiance is taking me out to a belated birthday dinner. I was still in early recovery on my real birthday(April 18). My muscle pain is somewhat better since I have been on 100mcg of thyroid hormone. I still have weird jerks and muscle movements. I called today to get an earlier appt. with the endo doc because I am very confused about what the next step is for treatment. I was very glad that they had an opening on Thursday. I really want some answers about my treatment. Gotta Go, Buffalo13
Just curios, are you taking any calcium? my calcium levels were fine after my TT thyrodectomy, my Doctor told me to take 1000 mg calcium with vitamin D at day, she also mention to me that if I feel any tingling or muscle crump to take calcium and it will go away, I do take it daily. I felt some tingling -very low- after the surgery for a couple of days but it was very low. Doing research I found out that we have 4 paratyroid hormones that regulate the calcium in the blood, sometimes they are lost during te surgery( they are dificult to see ) I found out I lost two of them during my surgery but fortunalty the other two do the work.0
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