u/nunyabusinessbruv

I am SO excited!!!! I plan to get some scar tape. Any other products you’d recommend freshly post op or in the following weeks/months??

I’ll be off work for 2 weeks. I have a 7 month old and she’ll go to daycare full time for the first week and maybe the second week. My husband is self employed and planning to be on standby during those two weeks. He won’t actually go back to work until the Tuesday after surgery. My parents will be flying into town Friday night to take care of my baby Friday and Saturday night and all day Saturday. I do breastfeed and the plan for night feeds is to have my husband get up and bring me the baby, I’ll feed her, then he’ll put her back to bed. I have a solid freezer stash for Friday and Saturday. Any other life/routine change tips?? TIA!!

Pretty much what the title says. I just need to get comfortable until my TT on 5/22, but my compressive symptoms are getting unbearable. I’m taking 800 mg ibuprofen every 4 hours. I was supposed to get an IM toradol injection and a week of prednisone today, but my office was out of both. Their other office an hour away has some of both, but my husband doesn’t trust me driving that far (I’m swinging hyper again and go through fainting spells and/or loss of feeling in my extremities) and he can’t take me out there for a couple days. Any tips to get comfortable? And any tips for TT recovery? TIA!! You guys have been so helpful, so thank you!!

Hi! I have my TT consult with an ENT on 5/18, but I’m on a cancellation list to get in sooner if possible. I’m on short term disability for now, but we’ve kept my daughter going to daycare 3 days a week so she doesn’t lose her spot once I do go back to work. Her daycare is so nice and letting her come 5 days a week for however long we need after my TT so my husband can keep working. How many weeks do we think I’ll need her to go 5 days a week? From what I’ve seen, I told them 2-3 weeks, but am curious on your guys’ thoughts? And do we think I’ll want my husband to stay home from work at all with me in the first little bit post op? He’s self employed, so he would be going unpaid during that time. Also how long after surgery do we think I’d be going back to work? Again, I feel like I’ve seen 2-3 weeks, but I’ve also seen 6-8 weeks. I work in an orthodontic office as an orthodontic assistant, working some surgical cases with sharp instruments in peoples mouths all day in a fast paced office (my clinic is def fast paced but I know most aren’t). In my clinic, assistants do majority of the work. High demand mentally and physically and, again, fast paced.

Are you glad you did that as opposed to radiation? What made you pull the trigger? How long did you wait? How do your hypo symptoms compare? Any tips or tricks leading up to it or for afterwards? Bonus points if you did it while in your childbearing phase of life and/or if you have ADHD.

I have a 7 month old daughter and that’s it. My husband and I want several more children. No I do not have postpartum thyroiditis. Yes I have confirmed graves. We are checking my markers for hashimotos (blood draw Friday and results should come anywhere from Monday to Friday) then making a game plan from there. My endocrinologist is great and has been rushing the process for me as quickly as he can. He knows I’d like a TT as I’m exhibiting symptoms that suggest I will not go into remission. I’m also pushing for TT as I got pretty bad compressive symptoms at the beginning of the month, was given a toradol injection on 4/6 along with a week’s worth of prednisone. It did shrink everything quite a bit, but less than a week later everything started enlarging again and I’m struggling to swallow at the end of the day again already. I’m just so over this.

I also have adhd and have not been able to take my adderall or adzenys (the only medications I have responded to) since 12/18/2024 due to pregnancy and now breastfeeding. The brain fog and haziness are completely unbearable, though my doc thinks I swung hypo and that’s why. For the most part, I’ll take the mental symptoms over the physical, but it’s all just a lot. I didn’t even get diagnosed until 3/26/26, but my dr and I communicate via his personal cell because he says I’m the worst case he’s ever seen in his 25 year career (take that with a grain of salt knowing I live in a semi rural area and he is the only endocrinologist office for several hours in any direction).

Idk I’m just completely overwhelmed and want this over with. Maybe that’s the thyroid talking, but being a new parent was already a lot and adding this in hasn’t been easy. On me or my poor husband who’s had to be my full time caregiver for almost 3 weeks at first while also taking care of our baby and running his own business. I am very fortunate to have so much support, but the only people I know IRL who have gone through this went through it 15-25 years ago and it was a very different world of treatment. I’d love any and all thoughts.

If it’s any help, I took methimazole for a week before I got a fever and strep, so I switched to PTU. Since on PTU I’ve still had a never ending sore throat, headaches, and constant pressure behind my eyes and random pressure behind my nose. No I don’t have TED (or at least I didn’t on 4/6) but I do have a hard, hyper vascular goiter per an ultrasound I got 4/6.