By: Nela
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Date: 06 Jul 2000
Time: 23:43:47
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Ahh if I could turn back time..... At 17 years old I was your healthy normal teen having fun no worries in the world. I missed my period one month, that turned into 2 years period free. I couldn't be happier, so I thought. I began noticing that my weight had significantly increased from 130 to about 170 #'s. Body hair started becoming an issue not just fine hair over my lip but also on my cheast. When I started noticing stray hairs I thought time to go to a gyno. I wasn't worried about the periods I was worried about the hair and weight gain. After several blood tests the gyno reffered me to a endocrinologist. He than ran several more tests I began to feel like an experiment. Few days later we had a consultation and he explained that I have pcos and adrenal insuffiency. Right away he attempted to surpress my adrenals with dexamethasone. That medication being a steriod made me put on more weight. One year went by and no change no period. Well there was one change more hair growth, but controlable. More weight gain I now put on an additional 50 #'s to 210#'s. Doctor suggests I diet and attempt to lose weight. Needless to say unsucessful. One day I felt a lump in my throat confronted my doctor and we had a biopsy done. That was the longest day of my life waiting for the results. He called me in to the office and the results came back positive -thyroid cancer. I remeber I went home and cried for hours with the fear of not knowing. He sent me off to a speclist who was a little worried about my weight gain now in a period of a few more months my weight shot up to 250#'s. Scheduled the surgery she seemed to think it would be a simple procedure just a partial thyroidectomy, no worries. Went in for preop and 1 week later when I went for surgery I had gained another 15 pounds. Needless to say I woke up in cardiac intensive care hooked up to oxygen not able to talk and very much in pain. I remember my family standing over the hospital bed crying. The doctor had explained that when she went in for surgery she found the cancer spread to the lymph nodes and they had to do a total thyroidectomy and neck disection paralyzing my vocal cords and the nerve to my left arm. Since they only had planned on the surgery being 1-2 hours they where not prepared for more anesthisia. Because my weight had balloned up in 1 week the gave me to much aneshisia causing me to go into cardiac arrest. I was in the hospital recouping for 7 days. Meanwhile my endo and throat doctor worked together figuring out which medications I should remain on. Needless to say I had to go through 8 months of radiation and a follow up surgery for a plastic vocal cord in able to speak again. Now in order to go for radiation I had to be completely off of my medications for pcos. The radiation doctor was alarmed by my weight gain and ran sugar test come to find out I also am Insulin resistant. I was put on Rezulin which in the first month I got my period first time in close to 5 years. Just in March that medication was pulled. Now for the last 5 months I have not gotten any more periods. I am on dexametazone spiractol and levoxl . My weight is peaking at 320. I have no periods, I have serious issues about my hair growth causing me to be seriously depressed. I never leave my house ashamed of myself. I have no energy. I feel worthless. To make matters worse I have been laid off from my job losing my insurance so where I usually go to the doctor once a month for blood work, I cannot do that. So I am here worried exhausted and frustrated. I just want to be normal again. Thank you for listening to my story, I am sorry if I rambled on and on. I am desperate if any one has a similar story and have overcome it please e-mail I need to hear a story that after all these years of strugling some how I may be able to break free from this cycle of misery.
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