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Which symptoms were the thyroid all along

Started 29 October 2024 · 23 replies · 270 hearts · read 2.3k times

GaelanInverurie, UK · 29 October 2024
1.7 years ago

Which symptoms were the thyroid all along Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

Before anyone says it: yes, I have an appointment booked. I would still like to hear from people who have had this.

I am aware some of this may be nothing. I would still like to know whether other people have had it, because I have spent a fortnight assuming I am the only one.

Here is where I am. The medication side has been more or less as described, and the part nobody prepared me for is everything around it: what to say to people, how to plan a week, and how to tell the difference between a thing to endure and a thing to raise.

Anyway. Thank you for reading this far. Any experience gratefully received, and I promise to come back and say what happened.

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LlianCarmarthen, UK
#1

Similar here, and mine turned out to be a completely unrelated deficiency picked up on bloods.

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MiraFacilitatorRotterdam, Netherlands
#2

I will leave this open for a few more days and then add it to the circle's resources, because the answers here are better than anything I would have written.

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BryonyMalvern, UK
#3

Yes. All of this. I had the same in my third month and I remember thinking there was something specifically wrong with me, which there was not.

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PerryCardigan, UK
#4

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

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MinnieDoncaster, UK
#5

My experience was very boring, which I offer as data. Some of us just get a dull time of it.

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ÖzlemIzmir, TR
#6

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

What helped was lowering my own expectations of the week rather than trying to hold the week together.

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MaudGhent, BE
#7

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.

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TansyLudlow, UK
#8

I asked my nurse the same question and she said something I have repeated ever since: that the aim is to keep you on treatment, not to get you up the schedule.

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PerlaManila, PH
#9

I did exactly the same and felt terrible about it. You have not done anything wrong.

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GusStirling, UK
#10

Practical, boring answer: write the three questions down before you go in. I have never once remembered them otherwise.

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PersisBristol, UK
#11

I have been in this circle a year and this question comes round every few months. It is not a silly question. It is the question.

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PrueChester, UK
#12

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.

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GrizelKirkcaldy, UK
#13

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

I would take that to a clinician rather than to us, and I would do it this week. Not because it is definitely serious — because it is the sort of thing that is much easier to rule out than to worry about.

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GaelanInverurie, UK
#14

Different experience here, for balance. Mine did not improve and in the end I stopped, and that was the right call for me. Both outcomes exist.

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LlianCarmarthen, UK
#15

The phrase that unlocked my appointment was asking what specifically she wanted me to watch for. It moved us from reassurance to a plan in about thirty seconds.

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Bryn MNeath, UK
#16

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

No advice, just recognition. That sounds exhausting and I am sorry you are in it.

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BryonyMalvern, UK
#17

I am the person who had the frightening version of this. I went in, it was investigated, and it was not what anyone feared. Going in is the whole of my advice.

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PerryCardigan, UK
#18

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

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MinnieDoncaster, UK
#19

Reading the reply above, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

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ÖzlemIzmir, TR
#20

Can I gently push back on one thing? Not the substance, just the framing — you have written twice that you should be coping better. Who told you that?

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MaudGhent, BE
#21

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.

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MiraFacilitatorRotterdam, Netherlands
#22

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PerlaManila, PH
#23

I am about four months behind you and I have been dreading exactly this, so thank you for writing it down before I got there.

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