Comments | naamah_darling: Health crap accomplished.

naamah_darling

Health crap accomplished.

Aug 04, 2011 01:59

Well, my doctor is back in practice, temporarily housed in a small clinic but soon to move to his own place. This is fantastic news. This is the doctor who, when I couldn't pay for meds, made sure I had samples to get me through. He's a good guy. Seeing him again was very nice, even though I'd just gotten up and was super-groggy ( Read more... )

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naamah_darling August 4 2011, 08:32:33 UTC

I know, right? I think I just want to watch him make out with . . . well . . . anyone, really. Or watch Rhona Mitra a la Doomsday beat his ass. But that might just be me. . . .

bat_cheva August 4 2011, 11:01:55 UTC

I'm glad you were able to see the Doc and get some of this stuff looked at. *hugs*

Did you see Doc Wolf there? :)

naamah_darling August 4 2011, 12:20:26 UTC

Didn't see anyone there but the receptionist, the tech, and the doc. I was in the Courage Wolf room, though, with all the wolf pictures. I lol-ed. The poster on the west wall is truly a terrible painting.

bat_cheva August 5 2011, 22:43:07 UTC

Hmmm... Not sure I've been in that room... But there is wolf stuff all over the place. *g*

rikibeth August 4 2011, 11:08:09 UTC

Apparently I am not allowed to see the beautiful boy.

But I'm glad you got to the doctor and got stuff seen to!

bat_cheva August 4 2011, 11:09:18 UTC

I had to put the cursor up in the url box and hit enter again.

rikibeth August 4 2011, 11:23:19 UTC

This time it worked. Yowza.

naamah_darling August 4 2011, 12:21:19 UTC

I know, right? Those lips. GUH.

hollowdoll August 4 2011, 14:48:45 UTC

Oh...my, that is a pretty, pretty boy.

Anyway. Just out of curiosity, when you say you're aiming for your TSH to be very low, what range are you talking?

naamah_darling August 4 2011, 15:33:53 UTC

Below 2.0, I think. We'll have to see what's doable. He's been amenable to pushing lower before, so I don't think I'll have a problem.

hollowdoll August 4 2011, 18:39:45 UTC

Oh, okay, gotcha. I was just curious how low you were aiming for, as my endocrinologist keeps me between 1-2 (which is also where I feel the most functional/healthiest), & when I was overmedicating before I started seeing her (switched from Synthroid to Armour Thyroid without proper calculation of what I needed), mine was down to like 0.75 fasting and I was having all sorts of trouble (heart palpitations, constant hunger, swelling/numbness of feet, etc.). D: I was curious as to what other people's "norms" are in terms of how they feel & function, as the only other person with hypothyroidism I know is my mother, and hers is nothing like mine so I don't exactly have much data to extrapolate from XD

labelleizzy August 4 2011, 20:52:51 UTC

fwiw, I'm currently taking a dose of 100 mcg daily. The fertility clinic raised me from 88 to 100 in hopes of lowering my numbers to between 1 and 2, thinking that would help conception (that hasn't worked) but my functionality and energy level seems to have increased, and decreased brain fuzziness iirc my previous mental states... (but if I had brain fuzziness, I don't know that I would recall it correctly, lol...) I think I've been taking Levothroid for almost 15 years now.

Naamah, I hope you have good success juggling your chemistry for optimal happiness and productivity!

shakatany August 4 2011, 15:03:18 UTC

Weird I was forbidden to see the picture on Firefox but it worked fine on IE - I wonder what that was all about.

Glad you're feeling a bit better as the old ad was right "a summer cold is a vicious animal". Hopefully now that you're back with your nice doctor he will be able to figure out what's going on with you.

Shakatany