Guest guest Posted March 30, 2004 Report Share Posted March 30, 2004 Yes to all.... When I was hyper... The stories that I can tell about what I ate... How about his one.... I would get up on a Saturday or Sunday morning and star a pan of breakfast sausages... the whole pack. As soon as they were cooked enough to not be raw I piled them between two slices of toast that were smeared with miracle whip... I'd eat that, one sandwich with the whole pack of sausages while cooking the next package... then I'd eat that and then go out to breakfast, an all you can eat place and pile up there.... I'd stop at Baker's Square and buy a whole strawberry cheesecake and go out to my car in the parking lot and eat the whole thing. Then I'd go back in and buy another whole one and take it home and eat it.... I lived less than 10 minutes from the restaurant. I could do 24 full sized snickers bars plus 6 cans of pop between leaving the warehouse and my first delivery location.... 30 minutes away... think about that 24 candy bars plus 6 cans of pop, while driving, in 30 minutes... I did that everyday.. and that was after a full breakfast... and then I'd stop at Micky D's after the last run before heading back for more food... then I'd unload the truck and punch out and stop at 's for two triples with bacon and cheese, large frie and a drink... then I'd drive half an hour and stop at an all you can eat place (there were 7 of them I hit.. only doing one or two a day and trying to switch off). I was doing between 25 and 30 thousand calories a day before I was finally diagnosed and still not able to maintain my weight. The last few weeks I stopped sleeping.. I had to stay up to eat. If I didnt' eat I got so horribly sick... headaches then all over aches.. my endo later said that was my body eating itself if I didnt' eat enough food... After that, after the RAI.. I went through several years of all over body cramps.. mostly at waking... every muscle in my body would seize and I'd be immobile for up to two hours at a time before the cramping would ease and I could move. One of the reasons that I get so uppity when I hear that someone is showing hyper symptoms that are being ignored.. the hell that I went through being in storm for a year and then the hell after while my body purged the excess hormone after the RAI.. then having to go totally hypo while they waited to see if my thyroid was totally dead or not.... it was the worst thing in the world and totally unnecessary.. I had gone in to see a doc in plenty of time to have prevented most of what I went through. But he ignored my symptoms and I was still too naive to seek out another doc when I knew that something was wrong... I just went home like I was told...... Topper () On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 22:10:53 -0000 " poohtrooper1976 " writes: > For those of you with hyper symptoms - > 1. Do you find yourself almost unbearably hungry? Like no matter > how much you eat, there are times that it just isn't enough? And do > you find yourself eating things that you normally wouldn't have? (I > try to avoid sugar and limit caffeine - but that is all I think > about anymore). > 2. Do you get muscle cramps and things that you wouldn't normally > have? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 30, 2004 Report Share Posted March 30, 2004 Wow!!...Sounds like, well, quite a few calories!!!!...25-30K???...AND YOU WERE STILL LOSING WEIGHT????? Weren't there any other alternatives to " slowing " down your thyroid instead of that RAI stuff??...someone mentioned somewhere that there are meds now that will help hyper???... Are you feeling better now??....sure hope so... Lindylou > Yes to all.... When I was hyper... > > The stories that I can tell about what I ate... How about his one.. ... I > would get up on a Saturday or Sunday morning and star a pan of breakfast > sausages... the whole pack. As soon as they were cooked enough to not be > raw I piled them between two slices of toast that were smeared with > miracle whip... I'd eat that, one sandwich with the whole pack of > sausages while cooking the next package... then I'd eat that and then go > out to breakfast, an all you can eat place and pile up there.... > > I'd stop at Baker's Square and buy a whole strawberry cheesecake and go > out to my car in the parking lot and eat the whole thing. Then I'd go > back in and buy another whole one and take it home and eat it.... I lived > less than 10 minutes from the restaurant. > > I could do 24 full sized snickers bars plus 6 cans of pop between leaving > the warehouse and my first delivery location.... 30 minutes away... think > about that 24 candy bars plus 6 cans of pop, while driving, in 30 > minutes... I did that everyday.. and that was after a full breakfast... > and then I'd stop at Micky D's after the last run before heading back for > more food... then I'd unload the truck and punch out and stop at 's > for two triples with bacon and cheese, large frie and a drink... then I'd > drive half an hour and stop at an all you can eat place (there were 7 of > them I hit.. only doing one or two a day and trying to switch off). > > I was doing between 25 and 30 thousand calories a day before I was > finally diagnosed and still not able to maintain my weight. The last few > weeks I stopped sleeping.. I had to stay up to eat. If I didnt' eat I got > so horribly sick... headaches then all over aches.. my endo later said > that was my body eating itself if I didnt' eat enough food... After that, > after the RAI.. I went through several years of all over body cramps.. > mostly at waking... every muscle in my body would seize and I'd be > immobile for up to two hours at a time before the cramping would ease and > I could move. > > One of the reasons that I get so uppity when I hear that someone is > showing hyper symptoms that are being ignored.. the hell that I went > through being in storm for a year and then the hell after while my body > purged the excess hormone after the RAI.. then having to go totally hypo > while they waited to see if my thyroid was totally dead or not.... it was > the worst thing in the world and totally unnecessary.. I had gone in to > see a doc in plenty of time to have prevented most of what I went > through. But he ignored my symptoms and I was still too naive to seek out > another doc when I knew that something was wrong... I just went home like > I was told...... > > Topper () > > On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 22:10:53 -0000 " poohtrooper1976 " > <poohtrooper1976@y...> writes: > > For those of you with hyper symptoms - > > 1. Do you find yourself almost unbearably hungry? Like no matter > > how much you eat, there are times that it just isn't enough? And do > > you find yourself eating things that you normally wouldn't have? (I > > try to avoid sugar and limit caffeine - but that is all I think > > about anymore). > > 2. Do you get muscle cramps and things that you wouldn't normally > > have? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 30, 2004 Report Share Posted March 30, 2004 It all depends on why you are hyper... for some they can give you medication that slows the production of the thyroid.. for others they remove part of the thyroid to reduce production... in the case of hashi's and the hyper/hypo swings... you more or less wait for the gland to burn out..... In my case.. I would guess that if they'd diagnosed me sooner I might have had a choice between surgery or RAI.... I'm not sure which I would have chosen.... Now.. I'm hypo... finally on meds and treating myself.. for the 10 plus years on synthetics I didn't do well.. each year I lost more of myself.... now I'm getting me back.... In just 20 months I've gone from a person needing crutches to go to the bathroom to a person that passes for normal! heheheheheheh I'll never forget being afraid to go to sleep.. I was sooo hungry.. I just ate.. non stop.. if I didn't - first the crippling headaches.. then the pain all over my body.. I simply had to eat. I had bones sticking out... At my lowest weight I was 220.. I was a body builder when the storm started, with 21 percent body fat, at 277 pounds. I lost the fat first, that was 58 pounds (40 pounds of it in just 30 days).. after that I lost muscle... I was burning up everything I ate and then my body started eating the muscle. For those that are eating about 1500 to 2000 calories a day... imagine eating 15 to 20 times that... and stepping on the scale and seeing it go down. One of my morning snacks was 4,000 calories.. and that just held me between meals. Topper () On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 01:45:57 -0000 " lem820 " writes: > Wow!!...Sounds like, well, quite a few > calories!!!!...25-30K???...AND > YOU WERE STILL LOSING WEIGHT????? > Weren't there any other alternatives to " slowing " down your thyroid > instead of that RAI stuff??...someone mentioned somewhere that there > are meds now that will help hyper???... > Are you feeling better now??....sure hope so... > Lindylou Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 1, 2004 Report Share Posted April 1, 2004 Robin, RAI... Radioactive Iodine. It's just what it says. They give it to you, you swallow it, the thyroid naturally sucks up the iodine, which, now radioactive, kills all, or part of the thyroid. How much it kills depends on how much they give you. The amount they give you is based on an educated guess using your estimated level of activity, the estimated size/over production of the gland and your weight. If they are off a bit either way not enough is killed to slow production enough, if the goof the other way the entire thing is destroyed. I was given a form before I was given the capsule - releasing the hospital from all liability from the treatment. After treatment you can't be around adults for 3 days, or small kids or infants for 5 days. They teach you decontamination procedures for that period of time because anything that comes out of your body is radioactive..... Gosh, that sounds like fun, don't it? NOT 15 years ago... and I'm still alive. Topper () On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 22:12:29 -0800 (PST) Robin writes: Hey Topper, What do you mean by RAI ? I have seen you use this quite frequently. Either I missed the explanation or have forgotten it. Today wasn't a good day for me, all I wanted to do was sleep, I have spent more time in bed than out of it, which is why I am up after 1:00 am. I am tired just not sleepy now. Hugs, Robin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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