Oh my giddy aunt!
Oh my giddy aunt there's a reason I feel so crappy, fat and worn out.
My thyroid has left the building, stopped working, kaput.
At the start of this, I was working part time shift work, running around after my mother, and looking after my son who has special needs.
I could do quite a few lappies round the park with my goofy dog in tow, usually twice a day. Chemo started and I slowed down a bit. Getting to the toilet on some days was all the exercise I could manage and other days I'd be back at the park doing my lappies just a bit slower.
Until I developed hand foot syndrome and the skin on my feet and hands peeled off in sheets. I had to rest with these gross wet dressings on my hands and feet.
Walking was out and I was started on prednisone. The weight started to creep on. My ankles and hands swelled. Made it through that and onto radiation, exhausted.
To be expected.they said.
Flat out out walking to the park let alone do a lap even when I finished rad there was no improvement. I really struggled but I kept walking twice a day having a rest on each bench around the park.
Tests on my heart were OK. From my GPs nurse to my mother all I heard was just loose weight, try harder walk more eat less. My mother was particularly hurtful. I was eating well and to the point where I was always hungry, exercising as best I could and slowly gaining weight.
I'd come on here and exercise was making such a difference to everyone that I stopped visiting for awhile, it was very depressing.
But now I'm on thyroxine and in 6 to 8 weeks I should see improvement it explains so much.
Long rant but if like me you're really struggling with weight gain, exhaustion fatigue dry skin peripheral neuropathy ask when they last checked your thyroid function!
Cheers, Fiona
