April 11th, 2010
Post RAI
I had my RAI done like 6 months ago and I thought I’m free from hyperthyroidism. Well, sorta. The visit to the hospital last week confirmed that I’m now officially a hypoactive thyroid sufferer. I said sufferer coz I’ve been experiencing the symptoms unknowingly for weeks prior to that visit.
Just wanna give the heads up to those who went for RAI previously to look out for these symptoms. Generally you can google for it but I like to share from my own experience. It started during my trip to KL and I blamed that on the lack of sleep. First off, you might get irritated easily. I pity my friend who travelled with me but I thought I was experiencing PMS (lol). Well, when that was over, it didn’t stop me from going off at the slightest thing back at home. Which was weird o.O
Then, my whole body seems to get tired easily. And here I thought it was the trip, stress and lack of sleep. Ok, maybe that contributed a lil but getting cramps at the slightest movement of my body and loss of breath during a simple exercise routine is not quite normal. Well, I still forced myself to exercise due to the recent weight gain. I also started sleeping earlier to ‘recuperate’ and take more kefir milk and supplements but it didn’t help much.
Next, I felt my skin drying up around my nose area so I gotta be careful on that. I get easily depress as well at hurtful words from others especially if it comes from home. It doesn’t bother me as much in the office coz I’d usually use my anger to settle those O.O Ok maybe not a good idea but I hope starting on the meds should slowly help my body recover for the next 2-4 weeks. At least I don’t experience memory loss coz I gotta stay sharp at work, or that’s gonna be tough on me =( Anyhow, I’m praying I’m gonna get through this soon but till then, I felt like I wanna shun all contacts with people coz I tend to interpret everything from a negative point of view.
