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  • SueAndHerZoo
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    September 3, 2013 at 11:01 am
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    #1060165

    Hi All – Happy Belated Labor Day.
    Today is 7 weeks post op (6 weeks on Levothyroxine) and I’m basically feeling good and functioning for the most part. I have enough energy to get through a day and night and then am able to fall asleep easily so I’m blessed and grateful for that.

    However, I just noticed a pattern this 3 day weekend and wonder if it’s typical: Saturday I went out and was active for about 8 hours, felt fine, no issues. The next day, I was WIPED out and spent most of the day crawling for the couch. Monday I was active for another 8 hours (family picnic) and today I am dragging SO badly.

    Is this a post-surgery thing or an absence of thyroid pattern that I need to get used to? Or am I just getting old? (Horrors!) I just wonder if from now on I need to plan my life around a day of recovery after a day of activity or if this, too, shall pass. I’m home for lunch and seriously thinking of not going back because I don’t have the energy.

    Am I being impatient (as usual)?
    Sue

    Kimberly
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    September 3, 2013 at 12:35 pm
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    #1180898

    Hello – Hopefully, our surgery “crew” will respond with their experiences…but I actually have occasional crashes 6 years in to treatment with anti-thyroid drugs. Hard for me to say if it’s thyroid-related, age, or the scorching hot summers in AZ!

    karenz516
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    September 3, 2013 at 3:11 pm
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    Hi Sue, its funny you should say that, I had RAI on 12/14/12 and in April went hypo and have been on Synthroid since, currently on 100 mg. The same thing happens to me, if I am out all day doing something, I am wiped out the next day, takes me a few days to bounce back. Whats up with that? I try to pace myself, but cannot always do that. It is irritating, I am 57, and I am sure some of it is age, but everyone use to call me the energizer bunny (pre Graves) I would go from 5:00 AM until 11:00 PM, 7 days a week. I use to come home from work on Fridays, after working all week, and clean my house. The thought of that NOW practically gives me an anxiety attack!!!

    Karen

    SueAndHerZoo
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    September 3, 2013 at 5:21 pm
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    #1180900

    Right there with you on the age and the Energizer Bunny….. several people really do call me that, or at least they DID 2 months ago.

    I am hoping this is temporary and that we will get our endurance back….it’s not always possible to plan a “down day” after an activity day.

    Sue

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