Definitely. Make sure you get your bloodwork done regularly and your levels checked. It took me almost a year to get that balanced with many ups and downs as the prescription was being changed.

I woke up today and I feel worse. I'm going to have to call my doctor. I spent all night tossing and turning... And the super vivid dreams and chest pain are back. In speaking with my father last night, I broke down. I never cry, but I'm so tired of feeling this way. He suffers from renal failure and spent many years extremely ill; he was trying to comfort me as best as possible. He let me know that I will have to listen to my body and take better care of myself. I'll have to learn how to do that.

I could barely find the strength to get out of bed and walk 10 feet to the bathroom.... I hope my work day goes better.

Forgot to add: my joints and limbs are swollen, forgetting where I put stuff, face is super puffy, and here's a gross one..... My number 2 is grey... I had just noticed that one last night and is still like that this morning.

Awww, I feel your pain both literally and mentally. My hands, arms, legs, and feet feel swollen, but aren't. They are burning and aching and tingling. I've been up since 3:00 a.m. and I'm at work now feeling like walking death hoping to make it through the day. How long have you been on the medication and what is your dose? Do you take Synthroid? I bet you just need an increase.

Oh, and I have the #2 issue as well. I've had it for months...it's super pale. Not sure what that means??

Well I had to go to the hospital today. I had a bad reaction to the levo. My mother made me drive myself and is upset about me waking her up because I couldn't t drive home (per hospital orders). I'm just over life right now.

I couldn't understand more. :( Trust me, I was admitted twice because of the meds recently. Hence, why I'm off them right now. What kind of reaction did you have? What did they do for you? The hospital I was at was pretty clueless and didn't do much for me. ((Hugs))

They pumped me full of benadryl and saline and called it a day. Then the fallout from others today was just "great". I'm just really depressed right now, I really could use my mother's support and she's not the leaat bit worried that I almost died.

I'm sorry :( I know what it feels like to not feel fully supported by the people close to you. It took me being hospitalized for some people in my life to fully understand how much this whole condition was effecting me. It's isolating and scary, especially when first learing about this condition and all that it involves.

I'm worried now that my boss won't care how sick I am. While I was in the short stay unit, she acted like this was no big deal, like ny mother did. I'm sure anaphylaxsis is pretty serious. I'm stressed out in basically every area of my life. It's funny how I now am seeing who cares and who doesn't. I never felt so isolated before.

If you arent sure, check with your employers HR department, see what they need to file an FMLA claim. They can send you the paperwork, and some employers have it online to print out.. you send it to your doc, they can fill it out and send it straight to your emplyr. That will take the stress off of missing work and possibly getting in trouble. My doctor said that i may miss up to 2 full days a month.. so i am covered for not getting any negative reprocussions at work.. and that really helped me.

as far as your support system goes, i have a partner who supports me but she will never really know what i'm going through... just a simple comment like " if you don't feel like doing laundry then dont ' ... well i WANT to do these things, i CAN't.. becasue most of us have no outward signs of distress, people in our lives don't take our illness seriously.
when i stopped expecting people to feel bad for me, and found ways to help myself ( like a therapist, support groups or my GP ) i started dealing with this alot better

I don't even want pity. I just wish people understood. I wasn't even supposed to return to work. I still have some swelling in my face and it hurts to breathe. But work needs me and I NEED the money. Now my doctor is looking at other issues because I should have been feeling better already. I've completely lost my appetite, my back and joints have started hurting more... I went for bloodwork today and on monday I should hopefully know more about whats happening to me.

I told my doctor that I really wish it was all in my head. I just feel like I'm so drained emotionally, physically, spiritually, etc.. I just want to feel better than I have in the last 2 years.

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I suggest you print out the following and share it with any less-than-understanding person:

http://www.hypothyroidismrevolution.com/hypothyroidism-symptoms/

I read that and I will have to forward it onto some people. Thanks CD.