Hi can anyone give their experience of a thyroidectomy.My daughter has had her operation 3 days ago. Due to a very enlarged overactive thyroid. She is doing well but is feeling very dizzy and nauseous. Due has started thyroxine 125mg.
Has anyone else felt like this?
welcome to the forum
It will take a while for thyroid and vitamin levels to settle
Which brand of Levothyroxine is she taking
Many people find different brands are not interchangeable
Always take Levothyroxine on empty stomach and then nothing apart from water for at least an hour after
Blood will be retested 6-8 weeks after any dose change in Levothyroxine
Test early morning, ideally before 9am, only drinking water between waking and test and last dose Levothyroxine 24 hours before test
Has she had vitamin D, folate, B12 and ferritin levels tested
If not, request these are included at next test
Hello Greybunny and welcome to the forum :
It is very early days for your daughter - and having been hyperthyroid her body will have been in a ' heightened state ' for some time so let's go just one step at a time.
What was the diagnosis and the cause of her ill health - Graves Disease ?
A fully functioning working thyroid would be supportive, on a daily basis, with trace elements of T1. T2. and calcitonin + a measure of T3 at around 10 mcg + a measure of T4 at around 100 mcg - with T3 said to be around 4 times more powerful than T4.
T4 is a pro-hormone which needs to be converted in the body into T3 the active hormone that runs the body - much like fuel runs a car.
When metabolism is running too fast as in hyperthyroid or too slow as in hypothyroid the body struggles to extract key nutrients through food, no matter how well and clean one might eat -
and in order to convert well the T4 into T3 we do need to maintain optimal levels of key core strength vitamins and minerals especially those of ferritin, folate, B12 and vitamin D -
suggest you get these run and we can advise where ' optimal ' needs to be as some NHS ranges are too wide to even be sensible.
The thyroid is a major gland responsible for full body synchronisation including one's physical abilities and stamina through to one's mental, psychological, emotional and spiritual well being, and it is the regulator of one's own inner central heating system and one's metabolism.
Some people can get by on T4 - Levothyroxine monotherapy.
Some find after a while T4 seems to not work as well as it once did an that by adding in a little T3 - likely a similar level to that the thyroid once supported them with, T3/T4 hormonal balance is restored as is their health.
Others can't tolerate T4 and need to take T3 only - Liothyronine.
Whilst others find their health restored better taking Natural Desiccated Thyroid which contains all the same known hormones as that of the human thyroid gland and derived from pig thyroids which are dried and ground down into tablets referred to as grains.
Initially your daughter will be prescribed T4 thyroid hormone replacement and we tend to feel better when the T4 is up in the top quadrant of its range with the T3 tracking just behind at around 60/70% through it's range and at around a 1/4 ratio T3/T4 :
Hope this helps a little as you support your daughter through her recovery.
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