[Peggy]

in reply to: Weight gain during Graves disease #1070994

This may not sound very "right" at this time, but it has been since 2004 that I started this mess. After tapazole, then two eye surgeries, then radio active iodine, I have HAD it! The weight is the big thing with me, especially now. This is how big I was when I delivered my kids and I am at the end of my rope. My MD has changed me to a new endo, and I see her the 16th of June, but I am issuing ultimatums this time, and I swear I will stop doctoring altogether and I don’t care what happens at this point. Everyone wants me to stop worrying with the weight, but my WEIGHT is my issue!!! The MD wants me to use antidepressants. Wouldn’t be depressed if I wasn’t so FREAKING FAT!! I exercise my *** off, not a day goes by without exercise, and I have not been able to eat right since 2004. Then when I do eat, I feel sick, hot, sweaty, nauseous right after and am ashamed to have eaten. I don’t eat JUNK food, I eat healthy and I am SICK OF THE WHOLE THING. I WANT MY LIFE BACK OR ELSE…it is miserable to have to exist this way, and I don’t want to do it anymore. No sleep, no relaxation, metabolism going full bore 24/7 and still no weight comes off! I am totally sick of this whole mess. Thanks for letting me vent. I know I can’t be the only one who feels this way…my Graves will kill me one way or the other is the way I look at it, either treated or untreated, I don’t care. Treatment sure as heck hasn’t worked so far…

[Peggy]

in reply to: Choosing Thyroidectomy on Purpose #1075709

WOW and I mean WOW. I wanted to talk about the same situation! I have extremely aggressive hyper with Graves with all of the eye involvement. My endo must have gone to school with yours, although he always adds that whatever my symptoms are have nothing to do with the condition. Anyway he has been medicating me since early 2005 (with varying levels) and it has not been very successful at control. I too have experienced the thyroid storm, and heart issues occasionally. He has held off on the RAI because a certain percentage of Graves patients with eye involvement experience worsening vision issues, etc. But for some reason now he thinks he wants me to do it. I have talked to the pathologist where I work, and researched it myself, and I think that the surgery is safer for me. The aftermath of the surgery sounds unstable as well. The combination of being so hyper with the worrying about the prospect of thyroid hormone forever after is not a good combination. Sometimes lately I wonder if I am experiencing what I want to call "panic attacks" when the profuse sweating begins, and I cannot for the life of me get to sleep for any length of time (at least not enough to do me any good). Are there other drugs to try besides the mainstay of tapazole? Maybe I need to do a little more research. Any comments? This board has helped me out tremendously before when I had questions.

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