Re: Re: More Question - Is this my Thyroid Gland?

[Guest guest]

And that explains the adrenal fatigue, righ there! LOL

I managed to sleep early, but my husband refused until I put him on the

prednisone. Then he started sleeping all the time the first month - a

sign his body really was sleep deprived.

Jan

Feisty(ThyroFeisty) wrote:

>Oh no! Sleeping early? Grumble grumble........I dont usually get to sleep

>before 2 am at the earliest!

>Feisty

>

>

[Guest guest]

Carole

Way way back in late '86 to very early '87, I had also been experiencing the

very heavy unending periods that would stop for a few days, then start right

back up. Go frwd to mid '87, when I finally had the hysterectomy for this

and the fibroid tumors (not knowing I also had thyroid disease started a

little before that probably causing ALL these things). Okay, now go back to

the heavy periods. At the same time, I was also in a very nervous state,

couldn't sit down, was endlessly doing some sort of work at home, couldn't

think straight, with racing thoughts, and that horrible free floating

anxiety, like something was trying to " get me " . I now know that I was in

the throws of early Hashi's, HYPERthyroid to start. So there really is a

paradox there, because everyone says that the heavy periods represent HYPO,

yet I'm thinking that autoantibodies or something related there caused the

fibroids and other symptoms going on. I had only read a little about

autoantibodies at that time and I know I was hyper because I had lost down

to around 113 lbs or so, but was ravenously eating, once I could get out of

bed, that is. My pounding heart and anxiety would literally wake me up and

make me jump out of the bed and immediately start mobilizing. I was in a

" grayed out " state, when it came to depression or whatever you want to call

it, yet couldn't sit still, got VERY skinny. This is when I started running

around a track about 5 miles a day. Seven yrs later and 200 tranquilizer

brands and antidepressants later, I crashed and became hypo almost in one

day, with shakes, tremors, and you name it, calling my doctor up, yelling

" Something ELSE is wrong with me, and you've got to do something!! " So,

even though I was having the terribly heavy periods way back there, I WAS in

a hyper state. Yrs later came the hypo crash. I know they say that the

scant periods go with hyper, but it's not what I experienced. I wish I'd

had these groups then because maybe I wouldn't have thought that I was going

totally insane.

Re: More Question - Is this my Thyroid

Gland?

> At the moment I certainly have many more of the hypo symptoms than

> the hyper ones. Apart from the rapid pulse I am often unable to it

> still even though I am feeling shattered I have to be up and moving

> but apart from that the other symptoms are from the hypo list -

> including really heavy periods.

>

> I have realised now that how I felt last night and agin today is

> probably because yesterday afternoon I spent 4 hours with two parents

> who have a son who has just been diagnosed with autism. I co-run a

> support and advice group and meeting up with new parents is always

> exhausting but boy did the two I was with yesterday have some

> questions and to be truthful they are having a really hard time of

> it. So although I was only talking I felt brain drained by the time I

> got home and was shattered. Then again this morning I decided that

> the house needed cleaning and set about it. So maybe I need to listen

> to my body at the moment.

>

> Thanks once more the support.

>

> Carole

[Guest guest]

And, , I'm a night worker. Then I'm up on my nights off, except for

rarely. Don't have the energy to do days on a nursing floor (not that

people aren't awake all night long in a nursing home, but it IS less

stressful than a day shift). Looks like mine may NEVER be repaired, if

they're only repaired between 11 pm and 1 am!

Re: Re: More Question - Is this my

> Thyroid Gland?

>

>

> > Yeah, licorice, the vitamins and I forgot: sleeping early, since

> > adrenals get repaired between 11pm and 1am.

> >

> >

> > Jan V

[Guest guest]

Well, I think it explains why we started staying up at night, way back

there, anyway, lol!

Re: Re: More Question - Is this my

Thyroid Gland?

> And that explains the adrenal fatigue, righ there! LOL

>

> I managed to sleep early, but my husband refused until I put him on the

> prednisone. Then he started sleeping all the time the first month - a

> sign his body really was sleep deprived.

>

>

> Jan