@daroca I hope your surgery went well. Last April I had a total thyroidectomy and lymph nodes removed due to papillary thyroid cancer. It was a very scary time. As far as the surgery itself, it went well with no complications. It took a little time for the parathyroids to get going again, so lots of calcium was on the menu. It took until August to get my TSH to the level my oncologist wanted which is 0. Now it has stayed at 0 ever since. I take the levothyroxine in the night when I wake up, usually around 2:00 am. I didn’t notice any huge side effects, some hair loss, my emotions were all over the board for a bit, I was hot all the time. These have all gotten better, I have all kinds of fuzzy new hairs and I’m not a bag to my husband anymore;) I’m still hot but I think that’s age related...I’m 54. I see my oncologist every 3 months for follow up, I still am always afraid there’s going to be bad news when I go, but I told myself the next appointment in April, if it’s all good I’m going to stop worrying and let the fear go. We’ll see how that goes. I hope you are healing and doing well. I’m here to help if you have any questions.