Blood pressure

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Good morning

I also am getting ready for RAI.

Last week my husband was diagnosed with Diabetes type two and has to take

injections of insulin.

Anyway we had to buy a Blood pressure/ pulse machine and a blood sugar

meter.

My BP has been 79-47 and my pulse 44

After I take a cytomel about three hours later my pulse was 82 and pulse was

85-61 and my pulse 65. Of course my husbands Blood pressure is 186-83 with

pulse of 88

I am now on day 25 of no thyroid hormone and I have been on cytomel for 15

days.

I have a Ultra sound scheduled for Monday.

What is normal blood pressure and pulse?

Diagnosed stage 3 05-00

RAI 137.8 08-00

Awaiting results from ultra sound and another round of RAI

Ranch

Gloria &

Re: Going Hypo again - CHAT

> Hi Jane,

> I really do know how you feel. I have one more week

> of Cytomel and then 2 weeks of nothing. I too am in

> the process of changing docs. In the past year since

> surgery 5/00 and 6/00 and RAI (147miCu) 8/14/00 I have

> never felt good ! Never have found the magic

> suppression level where I felt like my old self. So I

> have high hopes with the new doc I will see next week

> that we will find the right dosage, granted can't

> start on suppression meds until after scan.... but

> it's a blue sky to look at. My current endo just

> told me that since it took 3 days for my radioactive

> level to reach a safe limit and let me out of

> quarantine it may be that I will need another round of

> RAI..... cheers !! yah, right......

>

> I know what you mean about the depression and the fact

> that our lives have been altered. I try real hard to

> stay in the moment and keep telling myself that I know

> the depression is worsened due to no thyroid hormone.

> It's hard even if we do have 'the best cancer'!!

>

> Just hang in there and know that we've all had to walk

> this path at sometime with this disease..... I know

> that doesn't make it any easier but we must keep

> fighting !!

>

> Take care

> Your thyca bud,

> Sue Ramsdell

> --- Jane wrote:

> > Hello Fellow Thycains,

> >

> > Here I go again, well I'm into the first week after

> > stopping the Cytomel,

> > been off of Synthroid for my fifth week, hypo hell

> > is upon me and again my

> > depression is creeping up on me and my doubts in

> > everything is happening

> > again. I seem to deal pretty well with all this

> > crap while not hypo but

> > while in hypo land I just wanna cry...

> >

> > I scan on August 9th and they don't know if they'll

> > need to do RAI until

> > after the scan. I'm using a new Endo and

> > Radiologists now that I've

> > switched. I like my endo but he's much less

> > aggressive then my old

> > Oncologists was, weather I like this I don't know.

> > My endo's after care is

> > much better but his theory on RAI is much less

> > aggressive then what I've

> > been told before. My Endo seems to think I won't

> > need RAI again cuz the

> > first dosage was 75 mCi which he thought was a

> > lot... We won't know for

> > sure until after the scan to see if there is uptake.

> > The old radiologists

> > seems to think there should be since I had so much

> > residue left after

> > surgery last Nov.

> >

> > I don't know I'm taking it one day at a time, but I

> > just want this over. I

> > finally was stabilized on my Synthroid and my TSH

> > was listed as .11 and then

> > I had to stop it to get ready for treatment again.

> > I like the Cytomel, cuz

> > even at .11 I felt like crap but I'm not sure if

> > he'll introduce a small

> > amount of T3 while on Synthroid. I guess I'm just

> > tired.

> >

> > I just want my life back, I don't wanna have to do

> > this every six months and

> > totally interrupt my life all the time. I was

> > almost ready to play Russian

> > roulette with all this just to have my life back.

> > I'm being a baby I know,

> > I guess everyone else gets really burned out and

> > tired, I just get really

> > emotional...

> >

> > I don't know who else to cry to. I don't want to

> > upset my family...

> >

> > Jane

> >

> > 11/21/00 TT, Pap Thyca, 3.0 x 2.5 cm on Left Lobe

> > and under a cm on the

> > Right lobe.

> > 12/23/00 Start LID

> > 01/18/01 RAI 75 mCi, Lots of Remnant left.

> > 01/20/01 Started Synthroid, with many adjustments.

> > 06/18/01 TSH tested at .11 taking .150mcg per day.

> > 06/18/01 Still Hypoparathyroid, taking 3000mg of Vit

> > C+D a day.

> > 06/21/01 Started 25mcg Cytomel twice a day.

> > 07/18/01 Stopping Cytomel,

> > 07/25/01 Starting LID

> > 08/09/01 Whole Body Scan. Possibly another RAI

> >

> >

> >

> >

>

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