Annihilating the Thyroid: October 2010

Favorite Quotation

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
...Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." -Marianne Williamson

Friday, October 29, 2010

The Beginning

The start of my thyroid problem is very vague. Looking back on the last 4 or 5 years I can see the symptoms manifest in different ways. I am going to start with the reasons behind my visit to the doctor on August 30, the day this semester of school started.

During this past summer I started to notice that I was getting sick more often, and I was having a lot of problems just keeping going, having energy to get through the day. I interpreted these as being symptoms of diabetes and/or hypoglycemia. The reason that I went to the doctor is that I needed to know why my blood sugar was being weird, I was having migraines and just feeling overall crappy about everyday.

At its worst I would start to shake uncontrollably (jitters) and felt like I was going to throw-up/pass-out. When this had happened three times in one week I called and tried to set up an appointment just to do a sugar test but was denied. Apparently in order to have blood work done at the Logan InstaCare you have to have a doctor prescribe the work. At the time I did not have a "primary care physician" I hadn't gone to see the doctor expect when I was sick and because where I was working needed a doctors note. Needing to have a physician request the lab work delayed me going and getting the test done for about a week.

Monday, October 25, 2010

Background

I am being asked a lot about what is going on with my health. Common questions that I get are usually:

What is actually wrong?
How did you know to go to the doctor?
What are you doing about it?
How long will it last?
How does this effect your life?
What can I do?

I have created this blog to answer these questions and give a way that my family and friends can see how I am doing. If I see that people follow the blog and comment I might actually keep updating the blog. If the blog is worthless, meaning I don't think anyone is visiting it or cares about it, I will stop when I have covered the basics.