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WELP. Fun times in medical land for me. FUN TIMES INDEED.
I've had a period for roughly a month now, with increasingly heavy flow. Last Monday afternoon I started getting horrific cramps almost as bad a the ones that sent me to the ER this past spring. So, I scheduled a doctor's appt for Wednesday, with the same PA that ryumaxwell goes to. We talked about some stuff, they sucked some blood into tubes for hormone and thyroid panels.
And yesterday, I got a call. My hormones were fine...but the thyroid levels were very low. Huh. The PA faxed a script over to my pharmacy for synthetic thyroid hormone, and I need to go back and get the levels checked again in 6-8 weeks. So I am apparently hypothyroid and never knew it.
When I told my mother this over the phone, she said, "oh yeah, your dad has that. And grandma." And my reply was "WELL THAT WOULD'VE BEEN GOOD TO KNOW, SO I COULD'VE PUT IT ON MY FAMILY MEDICAL HISTORY AND MAYBE THEY WOULD'VE CHECKED IT YEARS AGO." Pffft, not important I guess!
I've been looking over lists of symptoms for hypothyroidism, which can have multiple causes, and quite a few of them match up. Depression. Mood swings. Fatigue. Dizziness when standing up from sitting or laying down (all the damn time). Headaches. Abnormal menstrual cycles. Sluggishness.
HMMMMMMM.
FML.
I've had a period for roughly a month now, with increasingly heavy flow. Last Monday afternoon I started getting horrific cramps almost as bad a the ones that sent me to the ER this past spring. So, I scheduled a doctor's appt for Wednesday, with the same PA that ryumaxwell goes to. We talked about some stuff, they sucked some blood into tubes for hormone and thyroid panels.
And yesterday, I got a call. My hormones were fine...but the thyroid levels were very low. Huh. The PA faxed a script over to my pharmacy for synthetic thyroid hormone, and I need to go back and get the levels checked again in 6-8 weeks. So I am apparently hypothyroid and never knew it.
When I told my mother this over the phone, she said, "oh yeah, your dad has that. And grandma." And my reply was "WELL THAT WOULD'VE BEEN GOOD TO KNOW, SO I COULD'VE PUT IT ON MY FAMILY MEDICAL HISTORY AND MAYBE THEY WOULD'VE CHECKED IT YEARS AGO." Pffft, not important I guess!
I've been looking over lists of symptoms for hypothyroidism, which can have multiple causes, and quite a few of them match up. Depression. Mood swings. Fatigue. Dizziness when standing up from sitting or laying down (all the damn time). Headaches. Abnormal menstrual cycles. Sluggishness.
HMMMMMMM.
FML.