Bmom
27-05-17, 23:21
Hi all! First time posting here as I was an anxiety zone member prior to the site closing.
I'll cut to the chase - haven't felt well for a few months now, fatigue, heart palps, racing heart, sore muscles, losing hair. thought it was my thyroid acting wonky again - I saw two different doctors, one said Hashimoto's, the other said she thinks Grave's. She put me on methimazole and I took it for a week and a half but after discussing with her, we decided I would stop taking it as it was making me extremely itchy and I wanted further testing to diagnose Graves before I continued to take a medication for it. I wasn't itchy before taking it and it's now been a week and a half since I discontinued it and I'm still itchy.
SO this week I went ahead and did the lab work she had ordered - full thyroid panel, ferritin, autoimmune panel, CBC.
AND yesterday I broke the cardinal rule of health anxiety, probably second to googling, I went and picked up my lab work from the hospital I had the blood drawn, because I wanted my results by the weekend. My doctor had not even received them yet. ALL results were normal except my eosinophils - hey were SO high!! My count was 21 (normal 0-7) and absolute count was 1400 (normal not over 500.) I am literally FREAKING out right now and I can't call my doctor or ask anything since it's the weekend!!
I keep thinking now that I'm so fatigued and run down because I have lymphoma or leukemia, I have a mild dry cough at night sometimes since the pneumonia, and this itchiness I didn't have until the methimazole I'm blaming in cancer. I just had bloodwork done in January and February and all was normal (for pregnancy and then miscarriage.)
My logical side says it's from the Methimazole since I had the itching, but the anxiety side of me says lymphoma or leukemia.
Y'all, I can't even be present with my two young boys this weekend because this is ALL I can think about, and my husband just doesn't want to hear it anymore. He's been through this with me for 3 years now and thinks nothing it wrong with me except anxiety.
I have had numerous CBCs, chest X-ray in October for pneumonia, ct and MRI of abdomen two years ago, all normal.
I'm so tired of being scared, anxious and tired. If anyone has any thoughts I would desperately love to hear them!!!
---------- Post added at 17:21 ---------- Previous post was at 15:32 ----------
Anyone? I'm really in a bit of a panic over here.
I'll cut to the chase - haven't felt well for a few months now, fatigue, heart palps, racing heart, sore muscles, losing hair. thought it was my thyroid acting wonky again - I saw two different doctors, one said Hashimoto's, the other said she thinks Grave's. She put me on methimazole and I took it for a week and a half but after discussing with her, we decided I would stop taking it as it was making me extremely itchy and I wanted further testing to diagnose Graves before I continued to take a medication for it. I wasn't itchy before taking it and it's now been a week and a half since I discontinued it and I'm still itchy.
SO this week I went ahead and did the lab work she had ordered - full thyroid panel, ferritin, autoimmune panel, CBC.
AND yesterday I broke the cardinal rule of health anxiety, probably second to googling, I went and picked up my lab work from the hospital I had the blood drawn, because I wanted my results by the weekend. My doctor had not even received them yet. ALL results were normal except my eosinophils - hey were SO high!! My count was 21 (normal 0-7) and absolute count was 1400 (normal not over 500.) I am literally FREAKING out right now and I can't call my doctor or ask anything since it's the weekend!!
I keep thinking now that I'm so fatigued and run down because I have lymphoma or leukemia, I have a mild dry cough at night sometimes since the pneumonia, and this itchiness I didn't have until the methimazole I'm blaming in cancer. I just had bloodwork done in January and February and all was normal (for pregnancy and then miscarriage.)
My logical side says it's from the Methimazole since I had the itching, but the anxiety side of me says lymphoma or leukemia.
Y'all, I can't even be present with my two young boys this weekend because this is ALL I can think about, and my husband just doesn't want to hear it anymore. He's been through this with me for 3 years now and thinks nothing it wrong with me except anxiety.
I have had numerous CBCs, chest X-ray in October for pneumonia, ct and MRI of abdomen two years ago, all normal.
I'm so tired of being scared, anxious and tired. If anyone has any thoughts I would desperately love to hear them!!!
---------- Post added at 17:21 ---------- Previous post was at 15:32 ----------
Anyone? I'm really in a bit of a panic over here.