[shebaj]

in reply to: NO TREATMENT #1074663

Hi, everyone i’m new to this site but unfortunately not to the disease. I was diagnosed october 2007 when i was in the delivery room pushing out my daughter, my ob doctor was so non chalant about the whole thing i thought it wasn’t a big deal. she said like she just asked me if i wanted a drink or something. it went something like oh, yeah your tests came back today and you have Graves. i had never heard of this before that day so since she was calm so was i. i was alright for the first couple of months i was on 100 mg of ptu 3x’s a day and i was feeling fine so once the medicine ran out i didnt bother going back i just stopped taking it. WHAT A MISTAKE THAT WAS!! in october of 2008 i started getting really bad headaches and then i would feel really dizzy and out of breath it’s getting worse and worse. i went to see my pcp and i had all the questions i wanted to ask written on a piece of paper, but she rushed me out so quickly i didnt have time to ask or say anything i felt like she just wanted to get me out of her office because she didnt know much about the disease (she gave me nothing but a referrel to see an endo) well, i’m still waiting. i went through the er on last friday jan, 2, 2009 he put me on propranolol and gave me percocets for the headaches. the propranolol makes me very drowsy and tired and once it wears off the headaches, dizzyness and palpatations are right back. i went back today to see my pcp and again she was no help at all, she even had the nerve to prescribe to me an anxiety medicine that she wants me to take 3x’s a day and only when i’m home! what? i know that she has to know that anxiety medicine is not going to help unless it’s going to stop this thyroid from producing so much hormone and i doubt it does that. i am not taking the zombie medicine at all!! i did however call and was able to get an appt with the endo but its going to be hard living like this until july the ninth (that’s the first opening the endo has) seven months from now!! i dont know what to do or where to turn. i have medicaid and i stay in la. and there is only one clinic that accepts medicaid in the whole new orleans, baton rouge area. i really need help i think im going to go crazy if i have to live like this for seven more months with four kids!

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