emotional roller coaster

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Hello Everyone!!

I'm new to this site and wish that I had found it prior to my

surgery. I had surgery March 6, 2003 to remove my thryoid in total.

As soon as the doctor got in he immediately knew it was cancer -

papillary carcinoma - what a shock for my husband!! It was supposed

to be benign. I had I131 radiation on April 9. Spent 2 days in

isolation. All that seems easy compared to the emotional roller

coaster I'm now having thanks to synthroid. I am either crying at

the drop of a hat or snapping at anyone who looks at me. My husband

has been a saint throught this process. I have heart palpitations,

headaches that won't stop, diarrhea, hair loss, sleeplessness (for

which I take ambien),etc. It feels like I haven't missed a side

effect. I can't tell what part is the synthroid and what part is

work related stress, but sometimes I am uncontrollable. Saw my

Internist today who reduced my meds from 150 to 137.5, gave me

Fioricet for the headaches, and Lexzapro to combat some of the

emotionalism. My Endo says it's too early to really reduce my meds.

They want to continue to suppress the cancer for awhile. More blood

work scheduled in 2 months and then my nuclear scan in October. The

good part is that there is currently no sign of the cancer. Guess I

should count my blessings and shut up about the side effects.

If I were going to offer suggestion to anyone, it would be to rest

and rush back into your normal routine. I think I went back too

early and have not given my body the rest it needed.

Kate

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papillary carcinoma

March, 2003