Post-surgery fatigue and depression
Hi everyone, wondering if anyone else has had this experience and if/how you fixed it. I’m 26F, discovered a 4cm nodule on my thyroid last year. Got a hemithyroidectomy in June 2025, they found 2 types of cancer in the nodule and one was metastatic and had spread to a lymph node but it was all removed during the surgery thank God. Have been on 25mcg of Levothyroxine since.
In the past 6 months I’ve been experience heavy fatigue and depression, worse than it was before the surgery. I keep scheduling appointments with my endocrinologist and sleeping through them and missing them 😭 I don’t take my medication at a consistent time only because I keep sleeping through every alarm. I’m missing classes and important appointments just from sleeping all day. I also have ADHD and I’m prescribed Adderall, I feel like it doesn’t even work anymore due to how tired I am. Just been in a constant loop of sleeping and feeling extremely depressed and disassociated/brain fog. It started about 4 months after the surgery and wondering if anyone knows what it might be attributed to, maybe I need a higher dosage of Levothyroxine or could it be something else. Ty!🙏