You might think that a little stress can’t hurt much, but that’s where you’re wrong. You come out feeling numb and this is because your parathyroid glands were injured when they moved them around so they could cut out your thyroid. Then you have to keep your neck covered for 24 hours while the moisture is absorbed from the incision site.
And if that’s not bad enough you have to deal with the constant ups and downs of your thyroid levels. Watching your weight rise and there are mood swings and constipation. Your body depends so much on your gut to control so many other organs in your body.
And then there is the expectation of finding out whether it is thyroid cancer or not. My surgeon didn’t bother to tell me until a week later. And then there was the indecision of the doctors as to whether he should act or not. You think that after medical-school”>medicine you can make a decision, but the patient is suspended. .
Life isn’t the same after you’ve lost your partner, your body cries out in pain day after day. If his foot pain is not joint-pain or knee pain or nausea or other problem. Yours is so depressed from waking up with pain that you want to scream at the doctors who won’t sit you down and tell you the truth about how it’s going to be afterwards.
Life for me has not been the same since my thyroid surgery and the doctors just sent you from one doctor to the next for another diagnosis of another one that was wrong because of a thyroid deficiency. My symptoms started shortly after surgery, ocular migraines/blind spots, Vitamin D deficiency, calcium deficiency, Vitamin B12 deficiency, high nor-epinephrine, GERD, right vocal cord paralyzed and left floppy, suffocation swallowing, loss of voice, cough, feet pain, knee pain, leg pain, stomach pain, loose stools, constipation, Livedo reticularis, tinnitus, weight gain weight loss, weakness of the arm, weakness of the leg, and so on.
You literally lose your soul, you’re never the same again. I tried to go out and mowing with my husband and beet red face. The neighbors thought I had a sunburn, but not only because that’s how the body reacts to the sun being hypothyroid after surgery.
Then heart palpitations thyroid meds and thyroid dosages are changed every four weeks for months until you finally get regular and non-stop bleeding. . Is there always no 8 months since my thyroid surgery and the blood work still hasn’t stopped for 4 weeks. My Tsh levels still haven’t settled down yet and are on the rise.
Do you think every day why I allowed the surgery, he could have done something different with her? Indeed, it could not be otherwise. You have to accept that your life will never be the same after thyroid surgery and that is really hard. I have talked to other men and women who have had it in common, and I hear the same stories, some worse and better. Some people are lucky in that they don’t have any major problems, but there are few.
