Thyroid Mood

[stella5349]

How is your overall mood knowing you have this situation?

[LittleEd]

I feel mostly angry about it. Right now I don't feel so bad, but over the past couple years there were times I felt like I was dying and there were times I wanted to die. If the docs had told me I had a few months to live it would've been better. I can honestly say that: I'd rather die than go through it again. I seem to be SLOWLY getting better but since the RAI it's like my thyroid is trying to scream for vengeance. Hehe.

[mommy2two2008]

Tired and sick of being tired.  Exhausted, drained, fat, blah---

I guess today was not a good day to answer this poll so I have not put in my vote.  Then again..... its still a big medical phenomenon as to what is actually going on with me.  Normal blood -- a new thyroid US indicates I have a mild multinodular goiter but have no nodules, so HOW COULD THAT BE.  I don't have anymore answers than when I started this mess 8 months ago. So, it would really beg the question ----- what's swelling in my neck?  It obviously is NOT my thyroid since the stupid doctors cannot figure it out, why the hell am I on meds (armour) and why the hell is the swelling WORSE if I forget to take the armour.

Oh, then there is the one month post tubal ligation and three weeks post staph infection and No "visitor".  

I guess I am just stressed.

[mudkme83]

Its been a real strange experince for me. When i go daignosed i was the most hyperactive person you have probably ever met.Also full of anxiety.And i am a hypo patient. Now im really calm, and dont really have anxiety. Its really strange how much i have changed. I miss the old me but not the anxiety. I feel like im a boring person now. Although im not optimized yet. One day at a time is my view. I get angry and feel the why me point of view.    

[MJ13]

Some days are better than others.  Most days are okay, but some days I just can't handle stress at all...like today, was brain foggy and crying for no reason at work.  Being menopausal, doesn't help the situation.  Mood swings on top of brain fog....what a combo! The most frustrating is not having my brain as sharp as it use to be.  The inability to focus is made more frustrating because people who didn't know me before TT think I'm a total space cadet.  I might have been a little spacey before thyca, but not so spacey that I could go to the moon without a spaceship like I can now!!!

[johncp]

Doing ok with it.  Wish my docs would test for free t3.  At first I was upset about having to take levothyroxine for the rest of my life.  But now i just look at it day to day.

[MKlacza]

I cant answer that question to the fullest! I would say after 8 months from my TT, I am doing well. I have my good and bad days! Its ALOT BETTER than 4 months ago!

[Totie]

I wish the thyroid was all I was dealing with, it is a cake walk compared to other health issues.

Have more pressing issues at the moment. Staph infection (I think I got from the colonoscopy), and apparently a chronic bladder infection that urine/blood work never caught in the last 2 yrs....(caught by cystoscopy).

[ChitChatNine]

@ this point in my life (2yrs since my surgery and diagnosis) I am fine with it.  Now, if you polled me throughout the ordeal .. welllllllllllllllllllllllllll it would have been much different along the way!

C~

[Applecore]

I think I'm with Terri as most of tthe people that I know personally that have had thyroid problems don't have any problem with their thyroid.  They are going on and seem to be ok.  I am still strugglling and have to take ugly medicine for the mental stuff and don't know how in the world I will ever get off of it without a lot of symptoms coming back.  I can only trust God that I will as He told me the medicine would keep me safe so this is his problem not mine.  I am taking it and worrying less so thats progress.  All of you on this forum are great and at least we understand each other with mo condemnation.  Thanks.   Also frustrated with redheadaussie the same thing.    lol linda

[redheadaussie]

Any room in there for frustrated? I am frustrated my body let's me down when I need it the most. Frustrated that doctors aren't educated enough in real life, frustrated thyroid conditions are usually seen as a mental condition to be got over by family and friends....frustrated...yeah that's how I feel right now.

[bet643]

If you feel like crying, than do so. You've been through so much and I wish I could do something for you. Everyone has their breaking point, I know, because I've had mine. I was so angry that I couldn't cry. After the news, I looked at my doc, said "See ya" got in the car and hit the gas. Don't know where I went or how I got home. I did come to my senses and called my doctor to find out what I had to do to fight this. So cry if you can, nobody will judge you, and if they do, well they can all kiss it.  You will beat this thing! Your friends in this community are cheering you on!!!!!

[blksapphire]

Since being correctly diagnosed, I just take things one day at at time. Every now and then, I get totally pissed.  This is usually after a test or dr visit.  Sometimes I get ticked off because people will say " oh that?  thats nothing, don't worry about it"    That's when I want to reach in and pull out their thyroid and give them mine.

The best thing of all this, is the fact that I found this site and this great bunch of people.

I guess I could sum it to the fact that i'm not completely sure whats going on and I still don't understand everything that happened and why.


Take care my thyroid family,
Terri

[utahmomma]

Most of the time I just take it one day at a time "it is what it is" but there are some times (like right now) that I just want to cry.

[Cynnieb4]

LOL again I choose them all, but with this  board helping me its great, so thankyou all, as I conquer this hashi's / and hypo stuff. I will beat it as the rest of us will.!

[stella5349]

Oh my - now 10 hrs.

maybe I better sleep on it and figure it out tomorrow when my he// starts all over again.

[LoriD1966]

I feel like my world has been turned upside down. I feel like a big baby and a complainer and a little obsessed to find out an answer. Forgive me. I have 6 children. My oldest son just left U.S. soil in the last hours to go to iraq and I am having a hard time keeping up with normal life task. I am on the war path for answers. I need to finish college and work and be there for my husband and children. I can't do much of anything right now.

[stella5349]

You know - it's been 5 hrs and I still can't answer it. After the doctor appt Friday - I just don't know what to think anymore.

[laura1967]

I am finally feeling better physically, but I wonder if I will ever feel "normal" again. It is like the thyroid and or hashi's changes our bodies and chemistry forever....even mentally. I still am holding out and believing for the day I wake up and walk outside and see and feel clearly....the fog has lifted some, but I am not crystal clear as I was before all of this. I often wonder if I will always have limitations now...or God will be merciful and grant me my complete healing and miracle. I don't want to settle for partial anylonger....I want all of myself back and am on the war path to find it mentally and physically. I will do and try everything I can to achieve it. No more sitting in my box....

[AR-10]

Two years later, I feel the need to pick two or three choices...

I think I'm stuck in a bad place mentally.

Soemone is spamming the board at the moment and I have irrational feelings about it. I shouldn't care. I should just report it. I want to verbally stomp on the person. The spammer has issues, so why would I want to kick them rather than offer a rebuttal to the "valuable information!"?

Sounds a little angry, eh?
Maybe I need to unplug the computer and try to deal with the real world. That would be depressing...


I talked to a guy who went through a year and a half of chemo for a liver problem. He's in the hospital doing a little "maintenance treatment" for stage four Liver failure.

He has a better attitude about his situation than I do about mine. Makes me feel like a whiner.

[ontheedge050]

It's very confusing. Everywhere I go I find coflicting information. I HATE the weight I've put on. My Doctor ***** and he doesn't listen. Along with all of the thyroid symptoms I'm menopausal too. Hard to tell what goes with what. GYN has me on HRT's too. I think I'm a little depressed today. LOL Can you tell?

[Liz94]

I'm finally feeling well almost a year after my total thyroidectomy.  Only took about 9 months to get me on the right dosage of Synthroid.  9 months of me calling and griping and nobody listening until I finally had to BEG for a lower dosage. Hmmm, who woulda thought that after the endo relented I finally feel well again.

[Thypatient]

I do feel good overall but have to say I've have a lingering cough I can't seem to shake.  It's left over from a cold I had.

[stella5349]

I am not sure quite how to answer yet.

I thought I would put this out there for us.