a new path
Jul 10, 2008 08:38AM
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THis morning I began a new therapy for this thyroid madness. More like insanity, if you asked me. This has been the most bizarre thing I have ever encountered in my life. It has come in and made itself right at home in my body, totally uninvited. A guest that was here long before I knew it.
After trying to get relief from the highly praised armour thyroid, and not really getting and relief, just adding to the symptoms I started synthroid today. 25 mcg to be specific. ..........................................................................
OH PLEASE GOD, let this work. If not, then, please keep hanging onto me, because I feel like I am about to go over the edge from no sleep. I don't want to that, so Please give me strength to hang onto You. Your will is perfect and we are not to question, but I sure do wonder. Forgive me for not being a better soldier of the cross and witness during this time, but you know our frame, and you understand. And thank you for forgiving me. Bless my family, and help them as they are going through a difficult time as well. Most of all, I ask that we will learn from this, whatever it is You are trying to teach us.
Thank you for teaching me that I need to have more compassion to the sick and their family. Forgive me for not having that in the past, but let me put this lesson to good use.
Thank you for my friends I have met on this site that have encouraged me, given me advice, and put up with all my carrying on and whining. Bless them and their family as they are on their journey with this lifelong disease. I pray that you would direct them to THE right dr for their treatment. Give us all Your wisdom and Your love and compassion for other people.
And please PLEASE, let me get some sleep. If not, then help me to be patient in waiting for it to come.
Amen
After trying to get relief from the highly praised armour thyroid, and not really getting and relief, just adding to the symptoms I started synthroid today. 25 mcg to be specific. ..........................................................................
OH PLEASE GOD, let this work. If not, then, please keep hanging onto me, because I feel like I am about to go over the edge from no sleep. I don't want to that, so Please give me strength to hang onto You. Your will is perfect and we are not to question, but I sure do wonder. Forgive me for not being a better soldier of the cross and witness during this time, but you know our frame, and you understand. And thank you for forgiving me. Bless my family, and help them as they are going through a difficult time as well. Most of all, I ask that we will learn from this, whatever it is You are trying to teach us.
Thank you for teaching me that I need to have more compassion to the sick and their family. Forgive me for not having that in the past, but let me put this lesson to good use.
Thank you for my friends I have met on this site that have encouraged me, given me advice, and put up with all my carrying on and whining. Bless them and their family as they are on their journey with this lifelong disease. I pray that you would direct them to THE right dr for their treatment. Give us all Your wisdom and Your love and compassion for other people.
And please PLEASE, let me get some sleep. If not, then help me to be patient in waiting for it to come.
Amen
Peggy.......I am in agreement with you (two or more come together, whatsoever they ask for in my name they shall receive) and ditto for me!
Time will tell if armour will work for me.....don't be afraid of the synthroid. You may end up having to add T3 down the road and you may not. Heh.....have you ever had your reverse T3 checked?
Hope you start feeling better!!! Unfortunately I have been back in bed for 3 days, but I also got my period. Do you have a hard time with yours ? I wonder if I am having a harder time with it because of my thyroid. Hmmm
HUGS!!
Time will tell if armour will work for me.....don't be afraid of the synthroid. You may end up having to add T3 down the road and you may not. Heh.....have you ever had your reverse T3 checked?
Hope you start feeling better!!! Unfortunately I have been back in bed for 3 days, but I also got my period. Do you have a hard time with yours ? I wonder if I am having a harder time with it because of my thyroid. Hmmm
HUGS!!
What have your doctors said about your insomnia? Have they offered any unique solutions besides adjusting hormone levels, sleeping pills, etc.?
I hope you feel better soon. Don't go over the edge--we're all in the same boat, so if you go, the rest of us are going to get wet, too! :)
Take care...I've often found that clearing my mind before I go to sleep helps me fall asleep a lot more easily because I'm calm and my brain activity is quieting since I'm not allowing it to think about much...you might've already tried this, though. :-/
-Julia
I hope you feel better soon. Don't go over the edge--we're all in the same boat, so if you go, the rest of us are going to get wet, too! :)
Take care...I've often found that clearing my mind before I go to sleep helps me fall asleep a lot more easily because I'm calm and my brain activity is quieting since I'm not allowing it to think about much...you might've already tried this, though. :-/
-Julia
laura thanks for the kind words. So sorry to hear you are back in bed. I know what you mean as I have been there for a few weeks myself. Hopefully, these hormones will get themselves straightened out soon.
Jules, I have done everything except drink warm milk, and to me that rates right up there with insomnia in torture ratings. I have done the mind clearing thing. Counting backwards, breathing in, breathing out, counting each time.
I just hope this is not a permanent thing for me, and that once I get my meds at an optimal dosage, I can at the very least get 4 hours sleep. I have an uncle that has this disease and he says he can't sleep over 4 hours. If he goes to sleep at 10 pm, he is up at 2am. No more sleeping for him till the next night. I don't know how that will affect me because I have always been an 8-9 hour a night person.
new disease----new adaptations
Jules, I have done everything except drink warm milk, and to me that rates right up there with insomnia in torture ratings. I have done the mind clearing thing. Counting backwards, breathing in, breathing out, counting each time.
I just hope this is not a permanent thing for me, and that once I get my meds at an optimal dosage, I can at the very least get 4 hours sleep. I have an uncle that has this disease and he says he can't sleep over 4 hours. If he goes to sleep at 10 pm, he is up at 2am. No more sleeping for him till the next night. I don't know how that will affect me because I have always been an 8-9 hour a night person.
new disease----new adaptations
Peggy,
I know exactly how your uncle feels....lately I've been getting 3 to 4 hours of sleep and I can easily sleep 12 or always have been able to.... that has all changed. I finally got the money to have my somas filled and last night I took more than I probably should have BUT I slept and I slept hard for 12 hours!!!!
Maybe you should talk to him about muscle relaxers if you aren't already on them. I know that my body stays tense, almost like when you make a muscle, that same feeling but it won't stop. Its worth a shot.
I know exactly how your uncle feels....lately I've been getting 3 to 4 hours of sleep and I can easily sleep 12 or always have been able to.... that has all changed. I finally got the money to have my somas filled and last night I took more than I probably should have BUT I slept and I slept hard for 12 hours!!!!
Maybe you should talk to him about muscle relaxers if you aren't already on them. I know that my body stays tense, almost like when you make a muscle, that same feeling but it won't stop. Its worth a shot.
Peggy, How beautiful. Thanks for sharing and as you know God answers prayers, not always in our time or to our understanding but God is Great. I hope you get some sleep soon. I'll say a prayer for you. Bless You, Tuck
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