Post thyroid lobectomy tremors and angry outbursts

[deb1325]

My husband had a thyroid lobectomy done about a month ago.  He has had angry outbursts and his hands shake.  His endo tells him that his thyroid levels dropped too low after surgery.  Does anyone have similar symptoms postop?

[JKenton]

I'm normally an incredibly patient and mellow person. It takes a lot to upset me. However, in the weeks leading up to my discovery that my thyroid was failing, I started to become incredibly irate.

I didn't have any outbursts or anything, but I wanted to!

People walking in my way, people getting too close to me, taking too long to board the bus, people making a turn before I was finished crossing the street...I felt about this -><- close to screaming at them and I suddenly understood the concept of "street reputation". Thank God I live in a "good" area because if anyone challenged me, we we going to settle it there!

It was incredibly uncharacteristic of me and I knew something was definitely wrong. Thyroid problems can interfere with the rest of the endocrine system and my doctor thinks that is what was happening because I was also having other hormone related symptoms as well.

The irritability resolved when I developed another symptom. Confusion. And I was just too damn confused to remember I was annoyed about something.

Or something like that...I don't remember :-)

Anyway, I've been on synthroid for a few years now and haven't had any of those problems since.

[gimel]

Has he had thyroid tests done since the lobectomy?  If so, please post results and their reference ranges shown on the lab report.