Hi, everyone
I'm writing to find out if anyone else has had this problem--sorry for the
length.
A long time ago (3, 4 weeks?) I wrote to the group about an eye problem that
I was having. The symptoms were a feeling of intense pressure behind the
eyeballs, generalized achiness in both eyes, intense light sensitivity and
blurring of the vision. Oh, I'm Hashi's, by the way. I felt it might have
something to do with the thyroid, but the eye doc said it was an infection.
As it turns out, it didn't stop there. A week after talking with you, my
eye problems dwindled but I suffered rapid onset of laryngitis with
significant discharge down the throat. It went from vocal fry (where your
voice sounds VERY raspy) straight to voiceless in one day. I saw a doctor
at Morenci Healthcare Center, who told me "it's just laryngitis, probably
viral. Don't talk". Okaaaaay--for a speech therapist this is not the best
problem to have. The laryngitis went on for one week, the majority of it,
almost completely voiceless--I talked a total of 40 minutes that week. I
noticed towards the end of that week that it was becoming harder and harder
to breathe, but they continued to say it was nothing. Then 2 weeks ago I
woke up with a pinpoint area of definite soreness at the right/front of my
throat at the level of the Adams apple-no, not a sore on the skin, but a
definite spot where it hurt to press. I had to attend a school meeting, but
my boss took one look at my white face and gasping and told me to go home.
I went to the Emergency room. I could barely breathe-it felt as though
something would shift in my throat and suddenly occlude my airway, but the
doctor kept scoffing until they took my Oxygen Saturation Level--94 (normal
is 100). This was with me puffing like a steam engine. They decided to
become "aggressive" and gave me a breathing treatment with Albuterol (sp?),
a shot of steroids and a 1500 mg dose per day of antibiotics. I went home
after the steroid shot feeling like the "cap" was off my breathing-I could
actually draw a full lung of air, and it was wonderful! For about 45
minutes. At home I suddenly coughed, and out came organic tissue! The
section was approximately 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch long, red-brown in color,
dappled with white and had blue lines in it that looked like capillaries.
Then the blood came on the next cough--just spatters, but it scared me to
death. Oh, the pinpoint of pain (roughly the size of a pea, very focalized)
vanished. For the next 3 days I coughed up spatters of blood, then they too
disappeared. I was on complete at home no talking, barely moving rest in an
effort to stop the blood--in that week my laryngitis finally went away.
Total time from eyes to well, 3 weeks. I saw an ear, nose and throat
specialist who looked down my throat once I was well and said "there's
significant swelling of the lymph nodes and redness of the throat, but your
cords look perfect". He seemed disappointed-I was not.
Since then I suffer occasional vocal fry, and my eyes are back to aching at
rare intervals. I am off the oral antibiotics and on Pred Forte for the
eyes, which still have residual infection in them. My doctors never found
out the reason for what happened to me--I still wonder if it was
thyroid-related since my antibody count is over 105 and the pain was at the
level of the thryoid. I'm embarrassed to ask this question-I know it sounds
silly-but could it be that I coughed up a peice of thyroid? Has this
happened to anyone else? Still trying to find an endo, by the way-it's
comparable to finding a needle in a haystack.
Thanks for listening
Laurie
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