Dear Thyroid™ � Thyroid patient letters

Hashimoto’s, How Much More of ME do you Expect?

Dear Thyroid — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:14:06 +0000

Dear Thyroid, I need you and you have let me down!! You have made me sicker then I have ever new was possible… You have compromised my health, my life, my sole and my mind… I have never felt this bad, you have made me tired and unable to perform my daily tasks at times, [...]

If Only I was Struck In A Day

Dear Thyroid — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:07:26 +0000

I woke up one mornin’ with an anchor on my head and a blurrin’ I was slurring my speech, like a drunk, ‘cept I’ll give up on talking. It’s not funny, it’s boring. Where am I going? What was I saying? Did you tap me on the shoulder? Oh, you’ve already gone. I’m learning [...]

Dear Thyroid, I Am Begging You!

Dear Thyroid — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:07:48 +0000

Dear Thyroid, Please let me heal! Sometimes I hate you. Sometimes I am too tired to hate you. Sometimes we get along just fine. I know you like to run low, and I can cope with that. I can even cope when you spike high. I can get through it, I know it will get [...]

I’m Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired

Dear Thyroid — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:00:06 +0000

Right now I feel sick, I’m sweating up a storm, my shoulders feel like someone hit them with a two by four, the goiter on my neck feels hard and makes me cough, and my head throbs. I’ve been laying in bed, just laying in pain, I have no energy to move, no appetite to [...]

Thyroid Diva Swan Dive

Dear Thyroid — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:00:57 +0000

Goodbye. It’s been an interesting life with you, far too interesting for most of the time, and although things started out well you’ve been destroying me one way or another for the past 6 years. It was the T3 bombs in the brain that were the worst. I could cope with the palpitations, I hardly [...]

ABOUNDING STRENGTH

Dear Thyroid — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:00:05 +0000

I bet most do not know A body could be in pain 24/7 And not just in one place But from head to toe The dosage of medication needed To take the edge off this type of pain Would put a person in a comatose state. To endure and bear such pain Is finding that [...]

In The Storm

Dear Thyroid — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:00:29 +0000

Life can turn grey, dark and hazy All seems so gloomy Feels like waves are crashing down Body feeling like an old rickety boat Trying hard to function and stay together As the diseases wreak havoc Rocking to and fro on the waves from the storm This storm that is now what I know as life. [...]

If You Listen, Dear Doctor, Here is What’s in it For You

Dear Thyroid — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:00:46 +0000

Dear Endocrinologist Once again I will be visiting you today. Me and my notebook with all my questions and fears. I will be honest, Dr., I am pretty done. And tired. Always tired. I want you to hear me so badly. When I tell you the things that are happening now; the atrial fibrillation, the [...]

Reload for the New Year

Dear Thyroid — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:00:49 +0000

Another year is about to come and go But yet I still feel as if I’m adrift in limbo I can rewind to look back I can reset from what I have learned Not able to fast forward Perhaps it’s time to reload Time to start anew Try again and keep trying No resolutions to [...]

THY-VOID

Dear Thyroid — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:00:27 +0000

You left me feeling such a huge void Taking away so much of me My life has changed tremendously My body has morphed from head to toe Stranger in the mirror I do not know The old me has been stripped away Forever leaving such a deep dark hole Where does this leave me now [...]