Monday Check in!!

[stella5349]

Good Morning

This post is just a check in to see where everyone is at this week. Do you have a doctors appointment coming up? How are you doing overall??

List your concerns and thoughts for the week here.

Have a great week everybody.

Stella

[3UnderThree]

No appointments for me this week.  Tomorrow will mark 2 weeks since I started taking any medication for my hypothyroidism (TSH 122).  I'm not feeling much better, a tad worse actually.  But from my reading here and elsewhere, it seems that is to be expected.  So I am waiting and hoping to feel better.

Hope everyone else is hanging in there. Thank you all for your advice here.

[hope4thegoodstuff]

UTI again....and PA put me on something called Nitrogurandtoin....You aught to check out the possible side effects.  I think I'll keep the UTI.  Jeez mon...

My cholesteral is in normal ranges, but barely
triglycerides are high.

there's a bunch of stuff, but I won't bore you with the details....The two above are something that means I really need to back off the sweet stuff and fatty stuff.  Sweet stuff harder than fatty stuff for me.  

[hope4thegoodstuff]

just went to a new doc today...Well a physicians assistant.  I like her...I may keep her and she appears to be ready to keep me.  But she's ordered the full battery of tests, she wants to know everything about me...not Thyroid stuff this time...I have to do that in a few weeks anyway...

I'm a bit nervous, she thought she felt a small lump in my breast...Talk about wigging out, but I keep looking for it and can't find it...Geez gals, I don't want to deal with another one...

So I won't think about it for now.

I have been having some anxiety attacks over the last two nights...not getting a lot of sleep..and Redhead...I too had a nasty little nightmare or two..they always have my endocrinologist in there.  Must be some meaning to that...hoping to get some sleep.

so tomorrow the blood tests and next week a mammogram and onward and upward...

I'll keep you posted.

[laura1967]

I think i just went hypo again ....thank you antibodies!  My thyroid has been swollen for 2 weeks to the point i am coughing and breathing labored. Been icing it.
It has been 9 weeks since last labs.....my dr and I were trying to take my timeframe before testing out till end of Aug. Dont think so. Will go tomorrow for labs and call for appt. My joints and feet and hands have been aching, my muscles hurt, my energy level crashing, coughing all night, rash at thyroid site, swollen thyroid......it's all good!!!
Heehee I am still better than I ever was before with a crash.  :)
Miss talking to you Stella!!

[julielou]

I am suppose to have labs and extra labs, which I've only been back on my full dose of synthroid 2 weeks come Wednesday.  Also, because I feel like "bad" all over, I am hoping to have a thyroid scan this week since it's been a year.  A year ago it showed multinodular goiter, but my Endo said "everyone had those".  A appt. to a ENT for the dizziness and headache on one side that ony goes away when I sleep.  Dizziness is not light headed, just the feeling of getting off a merry-go-round, sometimes queazy.  I can't believe it's been a month of feeling like this.  

[katebrunk]

One week until my appointment with my Endo before checking in to the hospital for my Big TT day on Tuesday the 4th.  I am ready....been taking my vitamins, staying away from Ibubrofin and trying to be good to my body....just wish I didn't have 3 plane flights and 10,000 miles to get home for the big day.   Keeping VERY busy with work so that the days go by faster!

[redheadaussie]

Feeling crud. Had super bad nightmares last night, with me attacking in reality my good friend who lives with me. Poor guy nearly did a rude thing in his undies! Finding I am walking into things too often and ending up with horrendous bruises. My test coming back today was meaningless. After having waited 3 weeks for it! Wondering if I am going to be able to survive the 17 hour trip to USA. Feel pretty good between 12.30 pm, and 2pm most days but the rest of the day I am really pushing the proverbial uphill.....going back to like I was for those 15 years I suffered without diagnosis. Feeling like I am freezing and can't get warm enough, then I boil when I go to bed!
   Period this month was super heavy, soaked a super plus tampon within the hour. Oh well, running out of time to get any real help..guess I will just have to push through it all.

[Super_sally888]

AM on holiday in Australia.  Lovely cool weather.  Enjoying family and introducing my family to my little girl.

[thelma201]

I have an appointment this friday with a new Dr. I've been on 137mcg for 5 weeks..up from 125mcg. It's been a rather stressful time for me though, as an old and dear friend of mine passed away suddenly last week. Not sure if this will have any effect on the blood work...I have noticed some minor improvements...but still can't feel any real difference. Worst part is not being sure about how i feel and is it thyroid related..BLECH.sorry, not feeling GREAT

[skeeterknitwit]

Dentist appt. tomorrow. Yippeee!!  I think I probably have some tooth decay after RAI.  That's OK, it's fixable.
Feeling pretty good overall.  I've even started walking 2 miles every other day.

I took the liberty of adjusting my own Levoxyl last week.  Felt hypo creeping up on me again.  My Dr. may pitch a fit when I tell him.  Now I don't need to bundle up in a wool blanket when it's 85 in the living room.

[Smilerdeb]

Sorry...other than that...feel great!

[Smilerdeb]

Ive been thinking that I usually go for 2-3 weekly labs and a Doctors appointment but havent 'felt the need too'....so think I am finally where i wanna be with my levels.
Its been 6 weeks now since I had labs done and thats unusual for me...3 is usually the maximum time lol.

Doc also forgot to give me ultrasound referral so will have to call up and get one printed out along with full body scan as its been 13 months since RAI.