Hi,
I feel for you…really I do. I experienced something like you are. I had bad anxiety while hypo. your body is hypo! Your swollen and feeling horriable. Your thyroid is probably dying off slowly so the docs are right about upping your dosage slowly. It will get better I promise. your eyes will un puff and you’ll soon feel really good. For me it happened overnight, i had all these horriable symptoms, anxiety, being fearful for no reason, puffy eyes, my cloths didnt fit, water retention, crying and waking up in the middle of the night with panic attacks. It was horriable, then one day it just stopped. Its a long journey, but your on the right road! I had mine done in sept. and Im still playing with my dosages.
They say it can take up to a year to get the right dosage and your body better. Go slow, give yourself a break, i wish after rai everything would just go back to normal but our bodies have been threw so much and now your on your way to recovery. If the panic attacks keep up maybe you can ask your doc for some beta blockers, those helped me so much! It stopped the racing heart and hyper symptoms. Some people breeze rigth threw the hypo stage and get normalized quickly and some like us it takes awhile, it will pass! I promise. Rest when you need to, wear sweats if you need to and know your body is healing. As your body gets use to the synthroid your going to feel better.
My doc started me too soon on too much. i had barley gone hypo and he started me on a dose which would be for my body weigth. wrong! I went hyper and it was horriable, i did the on and off of the synthroid too and it was hard but finally I think we have the right dosage. In the future you will know when you feel hypo and can go into the doc and make a minor change in the meds. your just in the stage of waiting for the thyroid to burn out and you may have had some hyper cells left and the synthroid was too strong.
Hang in there, your going to get threw this! I promise! Nothing fit me for about 3 weeks then all my water weight just came off and Im back in my jeans. I can feel when Im going hypo but still in the normal high range and the docs will put me on a stronger dose and I feel so much better!
Your going to feel great, but for now take it slow and know this will pass too!
It means so much when you are going through such rough times and makes it much more peaceful knowing that there IS someone else that experienced something the same as you are going through. I try to stay positive but every now and again I realize that I am struggling and feeling so awful and so I look for some support. The anxiety is the worst…I was hoping that was gone now that the hyper part is over with …but I know that this too SHALL PASS ! I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your input! God bless! Every day I pray for everyone. 