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Apr 2014
10:13pm, 28 Apr 2014
947 posts
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J*C
I'm just awaiting dr appointment after having routine bloods done
Although I generally feel ok it's not as good as pre diagnosis, I'm guessing that I will never be normal again!
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Apr 2014
5:26am, 29 Apr 2014
7,901 posts
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pinkladykat
With Meds your thyroid can go to normal reading
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Apr 2014
8:26am, 29 Apr 2014
948 posts
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J*C
I think mine are with in normal range tsh is 2 I think but doesn't mean you ever feel completely "normal" again, I'm almost 2 years into diagnosis , but maybe others return to normal ?
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Apr 2014
10:01am, 29 Apr 2014
4,174 posts
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Cuddy
I'm a lucky one, with a small dose of thyroxine I feel massively better, back to what I felt like before aaaaaages ago. Biggest difference has been the tiredness and sleeping. Before I needed 9 hours a night and naps, now I do nicely with 7.5 hours, no naps. Funniest thing is that I've started remembering my dreams again, which I didn't for years.
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Apr 2014
10:31am, 29 Apr 2014
949 posts
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J*C
I think it's the tiredness and lethargy that annoys me , occasionally my joints all ache but I guess I just get on with it!
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Apr 2014
11:45am, 29 Apr 2014
1,373 posts
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Pinkliverbird
Hi. Just came across this thread 
I have an underactive thyroid gland too. Actually I first had an overactive one, went through treatment (carbimazole and thyroxine) it stablised for a few years, then during early pregnancy with my second daughter it decided to play silly buggers and went underactive.
My overactive (happened about 18 years ago) took a a couple of years to be diagnosed. It was awful before diagnosis. I felt constantly stressed-out and exhausted and used to get bouts of shaking. I didn't lose much weight though. I kept going to the doctors as I knew something wasn't right and he kept prescribing me anti-depressants which I didn't want to take (and didn't). Eventually, I was diagnosed because I developed a large swelling at the side of my throat.
My underactive was quickly diagnosed, as since having an overactive thyroid gland my blood was still checked regularly. I'm glad it was as I became very depressed with feelings of not being able to cope with the pregnancy. As soon as I started taking a thyroxine supplement, WOW, what a difference. I went from a depressed, confused, exhausted wee thing to a very happy and excited mother-to-be in a space of a week.
That was about 13 years ago and I'm still on 100 micrograms a day and get my blood tested about every 6 months. Some days I feel really exhausted and go on a downer for no reason at all and fall asleep during the day. Have always thought that this is caused by the hypothyroidism - maybe levels fluctuate and go well below normal sometimes. Having said that things for me are generally OK, though I do get brain fuzz now and then. Is this related? Not sure.
I know you're entitled to free prescriptions (even if it's not thyroid related) when you're on a thyroxine supplement. It doesn't effect me anymore as I live in Scotland and nobody pays for prescriptions anymore up here, but when that wasn't the case, I always got mine free. Those living elswhere should get any of their prescriptions free - that's if it's still the same as it was several years ago and hasn't changed.
Hope you get sorted J*C and start feeling better very soon.
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Apr 2014
11:47am, 29 Apr 2014
1,374 posts
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Pinkliverbird
*affect* Ooops
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Apr 2014
12:06pm, 29 Apr 2014
950 posts
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J*C
Thanks I must say generally I'm ok ish just not now I used to be
Totly understand the days of brain fog, tiredness, aches, cold/ hot sweats but I'm thankfully that compared to many I'm fit and healthy!
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Apr 2014
6:32pm, 30 Apr 2014
7,902 posts
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pinkladykat
Oh the hot sweats mid night yuk
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Apr 2014
6:43pm, 30 Apr 2014
11,557 posts
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northernslowcoach
See I still have brain fog, tiredness, cold hands & feet and night sweats but as my bloods are now normal they won't up my dose
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