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I know its been a few weeks since posting…Dr lowered my methimazole from 20mg to 10mg per day…ft4 is still borderline, but decreasing quite well, as is the tsh increasing, but slow as it should. Dr told me to take beta blocker at night as they tend to produce sleepy side effects as well…as for the joint pain, I have had joint pain for years, the ATD didn’t increase the pain, although when the hypER symptoms started, I had all I could to get into an upright position after sitting for awhile, and thepain was horrible. Since the decrease in dosage on 7/6, I have noticed an increase in raging again, and the irritability is back again…sleeping is okay for now, but I have since acquired a lousy cold with sore throat, runny nose, and massive phlegm, no fever though…I have been battling this off/on now for almost 2 weeks, and it finally got the best of me…I started having utacaria, and found that benadryl works wonders for the itching. Have also noticed red marks that look like welts with no pain or itching, they come and go, and some are just a bunch of red dots. The sun seems to have an effect on this symptom. I keep reading and trying to learn more and more in order to figure out how to best manage this and myself. I don’t like not feeling well, I hate being irritable, and especially the raging…
Hope everyone is good…I also started to BLOG all my stuff, thinking journaling will help me and maybe my family somewhere down the road…if you are interested in keeping up with me and what is going on, it is
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I have always found writing helps me psychologically with things, maybe this will too!Hi Cynthia, don’t feel you are alone. I was just dx on June 11th, the day after I turned 45. I hadn’t slept in months, and the only advantage was I was getting to work on time. I started athenolol 2 wks prior, and it helped for a couple days with sleeplessness, then started on methimazole. I felt it work almost immediately with my temperment, I felt more relaxed. My scan came back almost normal, so I don’t store it as much, I just produce too much. Lately though, the sleeplessness is back. Last night I went to bed at 3am, and woke up like clockwork at 8am. I feel totally drained most days, but Sunday I felt good and cleaned the house. I have my 15 mo old grandson every wkd. My special time, I love it, but I find lifting him really strains me. I live under alot of stress. Stress that is not easily to make disappear, so I guess I will have to learn to manage how I deal with it. I started seeing a psychologist because I thought I needed to go back on anti-dpressants, been off for 10 yrs now, but because of miscommunications with my GP and Psych, never got on them. Then the GP did the thyroid tests. I have multinodular disease now for going on two yrs. Had my endo ckup in January and levels were fine. So sometime between first of the year and Memorial Day, they started overproducing. I am lucky enough we found it VERY early in the beginning stage. I am on Methimazole 10mg/2 times a day. Taking bothe pills at night or in the morning made me lethargic and sick to my stomach. Just didn’t sem right to take it once a day when your body produces all day long, so I split it up. And I also take the athenolol 2x a day along with it. Keeps the anxiety levels lower and the heart from racing. Although, I still have days when I swear it isn’t working. My biggest problem is getting everyone around me educated enough to know I am not a psycho raging lunatic, that is just a symptom of the disease. I watched my mother go through all this for many, many years, along with Lupus and all the other autoimmune stuff that goes with that. I now can say I understand why I grew up the way I did, and why I took anger management classes when I had my own children. I really did and still do feel like I am going out of my mind, I feel like running away, and feel like I need to be secluded from everyone. I understand patience is needed with this disease, but I’ve always been hyperactive and ran on high gear to begin with. Thank you for the internet and all the people I can connect with.
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