tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81014943249906374582012-02-16T01:24:39.104-08:00The Journal of a Newly-Diagnosed Graves' Disease (Hyperthyroid) PatientChristanoreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8101494324990637458.post-85538843009351106862008-06-09T12:55:00.000-07:002008-06-09T13:07:13.527-07:00So.. I just got diagnosed with Graves Disease. Now, at first, I was thinking.. hey, what's one more pill a day? I mean, I already had plenty of conditions for a 20-something woman.. ADHD, PMDD, TMD, asthma, allergies, dysautonomic syncope.. and lots of medications to go with them. So yeah, I wasn't too worried at the get go. I was just happy that I hadn't been ravenously hungry, losing weight, and desperately thirsty all the time because I was diabetic. Because while I am vastly impressed with people who can manage to give themselves three or more shots a day, I'm not so sure how I would do with that. I guess I would have to rise to the occasion, but.. I have to say I was relieved I didn't have to.<br /><br />Then, I started getting my husband's cold. He bought some Tylenol Nighttime Cold and Head Congestion medicine when it got bad, so I turn over the back to read the instructions. Since I read everything, I read the "ask a doctor before use if you have" section, not expecting anything worrisome. But there it was: <span style="font-weight: bold;">thyroid disease</span>. I promptly called a 24 hour health help line that our insurance runs. I was hoping for them to say, "Oh, no, that's for people with <span style="font-style: italic;">hypo</span>thyroid. Not <span style="font-style: italic;">hyper</span>thyroid."<br /><br />Instead, the registered nurse said, "That's all thyroid disease. And don't take anything until you talk to a pharmacist or your doctor."<br /><br />So not only is my thyroid causing my body to go crazy.. but now I have to be extra careful about what else I can take. Because I looked online and found out that people who have taken cold medicine without realizing sometimes took 3-6 weeks to recover.<br /><br />Guess it's time to clean out the medicine cabinet.. or divide it into "husband can take" and "wife can take" sections!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8101494324990637458-8553884300935110686?l=gravelyhyper.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Christanoreply@blogger.com0