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Leslieanne: I will answer the best that I can. The reason I say that her thyroid has been acting up is that she will be fine on her medicine for about 3 to 6 months, meaning her energy levels are fine. Then for a few months she will be very tired all through the day. She will do the minimum around the house with the kids. When I get home then I will help get a lot of the things done around the house, she will tell me that she has just been very exausted. Then at around 10:30 at night its like someone flipped a switch she will go right to sleep. Her doctor has only asked for a blood test twice a year. He has changed the dose twice in the last 3 yrs of her having the surgery. There was one time that she had low energy and decided to get a blood test. The doctor said that her thyroid level was not significant enough to make any changes to her medicine. At one time she thought that her thyroid was over active so she halved the dose herself for a couple of days until she felt she could go back to the full dose. It is just frustrating because the doctor does not live in the same town he is 4 hrs away. His secretary is less than desirable to say the least, messages do not get delivered in a timely manner. Now I must say too that she still has half of her thyroid intact so her thyroid is still producing and sometimes it will act up or not be producing enough so I can see why it would be so hard to keep the levels consistent. No she has not been asked to record any of her symptoms. Other than the surgery and the occasional blood tests she does not talk to her doctor. When she was pregnant with both of our kids the doctors were constantly watching her Iron levels. They said that she was slightly anemic. When she had both of the kids she had a high iron diet. Now I know that having kids can take from your levels so that I am aware of. I just wonder if she is constantly low on iron. Now as far as her alone time trying to relax. I try to give her time. I am not home about 4 days out of the week for about 14 hours. I stop in just to get something to eat and then run again. Again I grew up on a farm. She is good at getting the kids to bed at 8 and for a few hours she will watch TV or read a book. That is her time. Just like my time is working on things. She does get a full nights sleep no waking up at night. The kids sleep all night which is a great thing. I hope this helps. I appreciate the questions. It feels like we have been trying to get through this in the dark. Thank you, DKM

Those are all great ideas. My wife only works 2 full days a week on mondays it is my day to watch the kids and get the chores done around the house. I try to have dinner done when she comes home. But this is on mon. I can try to be home more to help. I grew up on a farm so I am used to working from sun up to sun down. When I am not working my full time job I am helping others with projects. Now that winter is coming upon us it will get slower and I will help more around the house. My kids do have a bedtime they are in bed by 8 each night which helps. One other thing I love to cook so keeping me in the kitchen is not a hard thing to do. I do try to find the time to help or cook at least three times a week.

This just sounded like the right place to place this. I am new to this post thing but I think that I can figure it out. My wife a wonderful person, had thyroid surgery a few years ago. I am trying to figure out if their is a connection with the thyroid and the sexual desire of a person. For example I will be horny all day and send text messages about how the night will go so that she can be thinking about us when the kids go to bed. When it comes to the time after the kids are asleep she is wiped out because of the days activities. All she wants to do is go to sleep. She tells me that it is not that I am doing a great job of setting the mood or giving her great ideas, its just that she is so tired and cannot do anything. I make sure to give her oral on a regular basis because she has needs too and I try not to put them aside. It is just hard to try to have a great evening when you know fatigue is going to creep in on the night. She is on medicine, I know that it takes a while to get the dose right. We think that we have it right but sometimes her thyroid acts up again. As they only took out half of it.