Re: Subject: Re: Roll Call for All Members of Texas Thyroid Groups-Informal

[Guest guest]

From the age of 12 (waaayyy back there!):

BC pills for 10 yrs---Norinyl, then another one I can't think of offhand--then tubiligation at 29, in '81----Always extremely healthy til I had this; not even aspirin and tylenol up til '86, when I started having symptoms related the nerves, weight loss, free floating anxiety. Then, here comes the fun:

Medrodroxyprogesterone

Then came a hysterectomy from constant bleeding for two yrs, fibroid tumors in uterus, cysts on both ovaries, mild endometriosis, at which time extreme weight loss, pounding heart, extreme anxiety all the time, running around the track day and night, like a hamster on a wheel, and all these follow:

Phenergan

Centrax (benzodiazepine like valium)

Phenothiazines (Sp?) (Same class as compazine)

Phenobartital combined with another drug that I can't think of; anyway, was for irritable bowel syndrome, supposedly.

Seldane for allergies that had suddenly started and gone out of control within a few months (and have every since!). That stuff is now off the market because of heart arrythmias and such.

Tricyclic Antidepressant---Pamelor---Increases Norepinephrine

Librax (Sp?)--another tranquillizer

There is SOME info in the Merck Manual having to do with some people's sensitivity to surgical anesthetics, the ones they put you to sleep with. It's mentioned in some of the causes of thyroid disease somewhere. Halothane? But I have no idea whether I ever had that one.

Then there are the local anesthetics that we have, such as the saddle block, etc....over our yrs of having babies---if we don't have them naturally. First one I did naturally, the next ones, I was hollering for the anesthetics. This, I am grateful to science for, but I don't know whether this causes thyroid probs.

Then when everything started slowing down, and I began to gain weight, feeling sick (hypo):

The day, and I do mean, literally, the DAY my thyroid crashed, with the shakes, etc....I was on my second day of sulfa drug for a UTI:

Sulphamethoxyzoletrimethaprim---Bactrim and then there is another brand of it.

Prozac--Antidepressant, SSRI, granddaddy of em all

Desyrel--Different grade of antidepressant that makes you freak and think you are dying, as though this is not what you were given it for

ESTROGEN----Premarin, Ogen, and another one---For 4 yrs, I took these faithfully, but during the last 6 months or so, they would make me sick just to swallow them, which is why he kept changing them.

Imipramine---Another TCA for norepinephrine and serotonin----4 yrs----Stopped it and estrogen within 3 months of each other.

$ynthroid

Levoxyl

Well, we know what happened with these two. Anyway.

No improvement

Vicodin and Nsaids for aching joints, haha! That's when I made the discovery that I could never take the narcotic pain killers, at least not at that time---Made me crazy and vicious, frankly. But then it helped me leave one bad marriage, haha.

I've also been on various antibiotics, for sinus infections, pneumonia, UTIs, but only since I was hypothyroid:

Lincocin

Penicillin V

Ciprofloxacin---Can't take that, makes me sooo nervous

Tetracyclines

Cephalosporins

The "Mycins", I call them, which I am violently allergic to

I did have a tonsillectomy when I was 18, and my understanding is that they radiate that gland somehow, or used to. I would not remember, nor would I have asked what all they did, at that age. I've also had the Hepatitis Vaccine, back when I started my job where I am now. It would be about 4 months from that time that I went into hypo stage. I've also had the flu shot at various times, and then all the childhood vaccines that existed at that time.

Long winded today!

Re: Roll Call for All Members of Texas Thyroid Groups-Informal

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I know we've heard this before, but could you please list, by name and type, all of the drugs prescribed for you. I know it is enough to make a statistical difference on my informal research!

Oink!

jan

[Guest guest]

There were two I listed here used as a stomach and bowel pill. I didn't mention the other one because I can't even think of what it is at all. There were actually six different HRTs, counting two different BC pills, 3 different forms of estrogen for meno symptoms, then the phony progestin stuff to try to stop bleeding and shrink fibroids, etc... The partridge that left me in a pear tree had to do with two different antipsychotics, then there were, yes, eight different antidepressants, and four different benzodiazepine tranquilizers. If you are grouping the antipsychotics and the tranquilizers with the antidepressants, then it would # through 14. I just listed them separately because I thought you were. The antipsychotics seem to keep down the strange obsessive "thinking" behaviors and actions related to repetitive activities, like nervous pacing, compulsive stuff, like keeping on checking the doors to make sure they're locked. I know that the psych world say that these are all emotional behaviors or are directly caused by lack of certain brain chemicals, but I've got news for them.Hyperthyroidism, I believe, causes this type of behavior, if it is severe enough and long enough. After I came out of hyper and crashed, all that was gone, then the depression of hypo set in. Not that I don't have stressors, we all do, but, at that time, this is the ways that my brain handled all this, in these very strange ways. It evened out (what I consider to be "coming down" from hyper, then went down to hypo. Then is when the actual labelled antidepressants started. This is why I say that I look back and say who was that?!! I am now 100% sure that it was ALL thyroid events, due to heredity, surroundings, physical and mental events, genetics, and whatever else that causes thyroid disease.

Re: Roll Call for All Members of Texas Thyroid Groups-Informal

Did I count right? Eight antidepressants, three pain/anti-inflamm pills, three stomach and bowel pills, three or more BC/HRT pills and a partridge in a pear tree? wrote:

From the age of 12 (waaayyy back there!):

BC pills for 10 yrs---Norinyl, then another one I can't think of offhand--then tubiligation at 29, in '81----Always extremely healthy til I had this; not even aspirin and tylenol up til '86, when I started having symptoms related the nerves, weight loss, free floating anxiety. Then, here comes the fun:

Medrodroxyprogesterone

Then came a hysterectomy from constant bleeding for two yrs, fibroid tumors in uterus, cysts on both ovaries, mild endometriosis, at which time extreme weight loss, pounding heart, extreme anxiety all the time, running around the track day and night, like a hamster on a wheel, and all these follow:

Phenergan

Centrax (benzodiazepine like valium)

Phenothiazines (Sp?) (Same class as compazine)

Phenobartital combined with another drug that I can't think of; anyway, was for irritable bowel syndrome, supposedly.

Seldane for allergies that had suddenly started and gone out of control within a few months (and have every since!). That stuff is now off the market because of heart arrythmias and such.

Tricyclic Antidepressant---Pamelor---Increases Norepinephrine

Librax (Sp?)--another tranquillizer

There is SOME info in the Merck Manual having to do with some people's sensitivity to surgical anesthetics, the ones they put you to sleep with. It's mentioned in some of the causes of thyroid disease somewhere. Halothane? But I have no idea whether I ever had that one.

Then there are the local anesthetics that we have, such as the saddle block, etc....over our yrs of having babies---if we don't have them naturally. First one I did naturally, the next ones, I was hollering for the anesthetics. This, I am grateful to science for, but I don't know whether this causes thyroid probs.

Then when everything started slowing down, and I began to gain weight, feeling sick (hypo):

The day, and I do mean, literally, the DAY my thyroid crashed, with the shakes, etc....I was on my second day of sulfa drug for a UTI:

Sulphamethoxyzoletrimethaprim---Bactrim and then there is another brand of it.

Prozac--Antidepressant, SSRI, granddaddy of em all

Desyrel--Different grade of antidepressant that makes you freak and think you are dying, as though this is not what you were given it for

ESTROGEN----Premarin, Ogen, and another one---For 4 yrs, I took these faithfully, but during the last 6 months or so, they would make me sick just to swallow them, which is why he kept changing them.

Imipramine---Another TCA for norepinephrine and serotonin----4 yrs----Stopped it and estrogen within 3 months of each other.

$ynthroid

Levoxyl

Well, we know what happened with these two. Anyway.

No improvement

Vicodin and Nsaids for aching joints, haha! That's when I made the discovery that I could never take the narcotic pain killers, at least not at that time---Made me crazy and vicious, frankly. But then it helped me leave one bad marriage, haha.

I've also been on various antibiotics, for sinus infections, pneumonia, UTIs, but only since I was hypothyroid:

Lincocin

Penicillin V

Ciprofloxacin---Can't take that, makes me sooo nervous

Tetracyclines

Cephalosporins

The "Mycins", I call them, which I am violently allergic to

I did have a tonsillectomy when I was 18, and my understanding is that they radiate that gland somehow, or used to. I would not remember, nor would I have asked what all they did, at that age. I've also had the Hepatitis Vaccine, back when I started my job where I am now. It would be about 4 months from that time that I went into hypo stage. I've also had the flu shot at various times, and then all the childhood vaccines that existed at that time.

[Guest guest]

There were two I listed here used as a stomach and bowel pill. I didn't mention the other one because I can't even think of what it is at all. There were actually six different HRTs, counting two different BC pills, 3 different forms of estrogen for meno symptoms, then the phony progestin stuff to try to stop bleeding and shrink fibroids, etc... The partridge that left me in a pear tree had to do with two different antipsychotics, then there were, yes, eight different antidepressants, and four different benzodiazepine tranquilizers. If you are grouping the antipsychotics and the tranquilizers with the antidepressants, then it would # through 14. I just listed them separately because I thought you were. The antipsychotics seem to keep down the strange obsessive "thinking" behaviors and actions related to repetitive activities, like nervous pacing, compulsive stuff, like keeping on checking the doors to make sure they're locked. I know that the psych world say that these are all emotional behaviors or are directly caused by lack of certain brain chemicals, but I've got news for them.Hyperthyroidism, I believe, causes this type of behavior, if it is severe enough and long enough. After I came out of hyper and crashed, all that was gone, then the depression of hypo set in. Not that I don't have stressors, we all do, but, at that time, this is the ways that my brain handled all this, in these very strange ways. It evened out (what I consider to be "coming down" from hyper, then went down to hypo. Then is when the actual labelled antidepressants started. This is why I say that I look back and say who was that?!! I am now 100% sure that it was ALL thyroid events, due to heredity, surroundings, physical and mental events, genetics, and whatever else that causes thyroid disease.

Re: Roll Call for All Members of Texas Thyroid Groups-Informal

Did I count right? Eight antidepressants, three pain/anti-inflamm pills, three stomach and bowel pills, three or more BC/HRT pills and a partridge in a pear tree? wrote:

From the age of 12 (waaayyy back there!):

BC pills for 10 yrs---Norinyl, then another one I can't think of offhand--then tubiligation at 29, in '81----Always extremely healthy til I had this; not even aspirin and tylenol up til '86, when I started having symptoms related the nerves, weight loss, free floating anxiety. Then, here comes the fun:

Medrodroxyprogesterone

Then came a hysterectomy from constant bleeding for two yrs, fibroid tumors in uterus, cysts on both ovaries, mild endometriosis, at which time extreme weight loss, pounding heart, extreme anxiety all the time, running around the track day and night, like a hamster on a wheel, and all these follow:

Phenergan

Centrax (benzodiazepine like valium)

Phenothiazines (Sp?) (Same class as compazine)

Phenobartital combined with another drug that I can't think of; anyway, was for irritable bowel syndrome, supposedly.

Seldane for allergies that had suddenly started and gone out of control within a few months (and have every since!). That stuff is now off the market because of heart arrythmias and such.

Tricyclic Antidepressant---Pamelor---Increases Norepinephrine

Librax (Sp?)--another tranquillizer

There is SOME info in the Merck Manual having to do with some people's sensitivity to surgical anesthetics, the ones they put you to sleep with. It's mentioned in some of the causes of thyroid disease somewhere. Halothane? But I have no idea whether I ever had that one.

Then there are the local anesthetics that we have, such as the saddle block, etc....over our yrs of having babies---if we don't have them naturally. First one I did naturally, the next ones, I was hollering for the anesthetics. This, I am grateful to science for, but I don't know whether this causes thyroid probs.

Then when everything started slowing down, and I began to gain weight, feeling sick (hypo):

The day, and I do mean, literally, the DAY my thyroid crashed, with the shakes, etc....I was on my second day of sulfa drug for a UTI:

Sulphamethoxyzoletrimethaprim---Bactrim and then there is another brand of it.

Prozac--Antidepressant, SSRI, granddaddy of em all

Desyrel--Different grade of antidepressant that makes you freak and think you are dying, as though this is not what you were given it for

ESTROGEN----Premarin, Ogen, and another one---For 4 yrs, I took these faithfully, but during the last 6 months or so, they would make me sick just to swallow them, which is why he kept changing them.

Imipramine---Another TCA for norepinephrine and serotonin----4 yrs----Stopped it and estrogen within 3 months of each other.

$ynthroid

Levoxyl

Well, we know what happened with these two. Anyway.

No improvement

Vicodin and Nsaids for aching joints, haha! That's when I made the discovery that I could never take the narcotic pain killers, at least not at that time---Made me crazy and vicious, frankly. But then it helped me leave one bad marriage, haha.

I've also been on various antibiotics, for sinus infections, pneumonia, UTIs, but only since I was hypothyroid:

Lincocin

Penicillin V

Ciprofloxacin---Can't take that, makes me sooo nervous

Tetracyclines

Cephalosporins

The "Mycins", I call them, which I am violently allergic to

I did have a tonsillectomy when I was 18, and my understanding is that they radiate that gland somehow, or used to. I would not remember, nor would I have asked what all they did, at that age. I've also had the Hepatitis Vaccine, back when I started my job where I am now. It would be about 4 months from that time that I went into hypo stage. I've also had the flu shot at various times, and then all the childhood vaccines that existed at that time.

[Guest guest]

I know, it seems like we were going to turn into little blue and multicolored capsules. I thought I was a space capsule there for a few yrs!

Re: Roll Call for All Members of Texas Thyroid Groups-Informal

Hope I have time to dig out my list before the survey is over. I can top your 8, probably by at least double. Yep….sad, huh?

Holly