22nd May 2008
[QUOTE=RMB;3579261]I do feel much better after my surgery. I feel like a new person...I guess I did not realize really much the hyperT was affecting me. No more sweaty hands, no more heart palpitations, no more shakiness or anxiousness. I am just trying now to find my new "normal"...and hoping the other part of my thyroid is working.
Painful? I guess the experience for each person is different...keep that in mind but for me it was not that bad. I had some morphine in the hospital the first day and was somewhat uncomfortable at times but never unbearable. By that night I was able to take tylenol and that is the strongest thing I have taken since. It really felt a little worse than strep throat. I was determined stay positive and try not to focus on the negative. Yesterday was the first day I did not take any tylenol during the day. I did take some at bedtime just in case that area starting aching in the night. Today again, I have not taken any tylenol.
I'm glad to answer your questions because for me the fear of the unknown was the worst!
Rhonda
Drained, drained and more drained is how I feel all the time! I go through the heat flashes pretty bad, more in the morning time, but they've gotten alot better since I've been on the Tapazole though. Moody, I get VERY moody, I feel like I have not an ounce of patience once so ever. It is so irritating!
I'm so ready for it, cuz I just want to feel better, even if it's a little bit, I just get nervous because I looked at pictures of the surgery on the internet-probably...the worse thing I could've done. I've never had surgery, my longest stay at the hospital was having a baby.
I've never had strep throat, so I can relate, but my throat has really been bothering me from my thyrofid lately, so I can imagine it can't be much worse.
I was going to have that radioiodine, until i started reading about it, then I decided, I wasn't okay with putting something like that into my body, think that stuff sounding a lil bit too crazy for me.
Thanks ;) Hope you're recooperating well :cool:
Painful? I guess the experience for each person is different...keep that in mind but for me it was not that bad. I had some morphine in the hospital the first day and was somewhat uncomfortable at times but never unbearable. By that night I was able to take tylenol and that is the strongest thing I have taken since. It really felt a little worse than strep throat. I was determined stay positive and try not to focus on the negative. Yesterday was the first day I did not take any tylenol during the day. I did take some at bedtime just in case that area starting aching in the night. Today again, I have not taken any tylenol.
I'm glad to answer your questions because for me the fear of the unknown was the worst!
Rhonda
Drained, drained and more drained is how I feel all the time! I go through the heat flashes pretty bad, more in the morning time, but they've gotten alot better since I've been on the Tapazole though. Moody, I get VERY moody, I feel like I have not an ounce of patience once so ever. It is so irritating!
I'm so ready for it, cuz I just want to feel better, even if it's a little bit, I just get nervous because I looked at pictures of the surgery on the internet-probably...the worse thing I could've done. I've never had surgery, my longest stay at the hospital was having a baby.
I've never had strep throat, so I can relate, but my throat has really been bothering me from my thyrofid lately, so I can imagine it can't be much worse.
I was going to have that radioiodine, until i started reading about it, then I decided, I wasn't okay with putting something like that into my body, think that stuff sounding a lil bit too crazy for me.
Thanks ;) Hope you're recooperating well :cool: