Better Symptoms

Most of the days are the same. I get some small hot flashes, at times, here and there. Random, unless I have been walking or exerting myself some. Don't get the incredible anxiety I was. Feel more my positive self who can go out to dinner with friends and/or actually function a tad other than work, food and bed.

Speaking of bed it is interesting how different each night can be.Tuesday night slept like a log as they say. It was wonderful! Funny how when one gets older you measure days by how, or IF, you slept the night before. Well, if it has been a long time since ever sleeping a whole night, sometimes by my age you do not even notice one good night over another! You are functioning in such a fog all the time....

However, I have been working on "getting good sleep" for a long time. A few years, so it is noticeable to me. Guess that's mostly what got me to this surprise surgery and having no thyroid in the first place! If you remember, just previous to surgery, I was waking every two hours, exactly, with the most intense night sweats I have ever had. Most of the time I could go back to sleep when calmed down, but many times could not after about the third round. It seemed I was back, but worse, into the throws of menopausal hell.

Right after surgery, for a week, I had none of that. I think it may have been more the heavy drugs I was taking- hydrocodone. I was waking but not so intense or frequent. The last week I have noticed some waking and some flashes. Then Tuesday night I woke too regularly again and more sweats than "flashes." Now we are down to Friday and I am starting to wonder if maybe my dose of synthroid is too high. Glad I am going to see Dr. C next week. By then I should know. Yesterday I had a couple spells of big anxiety and in the mornings have been feeling some nauseous. Waking with sweats, yes, and some facial flushing. Not as bad as before surgery, but almost. Enough I need to mention it.