Today I am moving at the speed of creaky. Ah well, what did we expect? Am taking a rest day today - going to work out every other day for a couple of weeks while I get back into the swing of things.
Have had a couple of lovely phone calls this week. First thing Monday morning, the doctor's office called and said that the doctor had reviewed my question from last week and the conversation that I'd had with the nurse. She confirmed that the goal is to get my TSH to the low end of normal, round about 1 or so *and* to a level where I feel good. She said that the goal is nebulous, since everyone feels best at a different TSH. This is fabulous news! I was thrilled to bits.
Got another phone call this morning, the doctor had had a chance to look over my blood test results from last week and the verdict is... up the dosage! I'm going up from 37.5 mcg to 50 mcg - doubling the original dose she gave me back in October. Moving up from the peach pill, to the white pill.
This is great news, in that backhanded well-wouldn't-it-be-nice-if-I-didn't-need-it kind of way. This also serves to confirm, yet again, that I was not imagining things and that it was appropriate for me to be, shall we say, assertive in obtaining treatment.
I want to make a t-shirt that says "Check Your Thyroid" and wear it out in public. Or perhaps, "Check Your Thyroid: Make Sure You Get Treated: TSH Only Tells PART Of The Story"
EDIT: Done! http://www.cafepress.com/jehr
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Shouldn't the image be something a little more creative?
Something like this?
Sweet pic
Well yes, but I didn't want to put a picture of my own brother on my blog.
I had a LOT of parathyroid troubles after my thyroidectomy. These went undiagnosed because my blood levels were "normal". I finally switched two doctors (both my GP and my specialist) and nearly burst into tears when my new docs said "well, yeah, the blood levels are normal, but [and this is word for word what my endocrinologist said] maybe God just programmed you differently"
Holy crap - I might be an individual? There might be a problem with me having excruciating, crippling leg cramps, even if the blood work doesn't show it right off??? Whodathunkit?
Thanks Amie! Good heavens! I hope you've found yourself a good doc. It seems like having a doc who is at least *interested* makes such a huge difference! I hope Oscar is feeling better too - poor little guy, a pit bull with pneumonia.
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