Thursday, November 18, 2010
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
The Test Scores and Diagnosis
The day after having my blood drawn the doctor's office called me to tell me the results of my tests... The good news, my thyroid had started to shut down... meaning not cancerous at this time. The bad news, my thyroid is shutting down. This means that the autoimmune disease that I have is actually Hashimoto's Thyroiditis. Meaning my body attacks my thyroid and this will cause it to over or under produce the hormones that it makes.
I don't know when or why but at some point over the last year my thyroid started to die (under produce). The signs of Hyperthyroidism and Hypothyroidism I can see throughout most of my "adult" life. The thyroid controls or regulates a lot of our lives. It controls metabolism (greatly influencing weight), mood and energy. Looking back when I have had problems with these things we never looked into the thyroid only treating symptoms.
For the past month since I have found out what it is, I have been taking Levothyroxin to help replace some of the T3 and T4 hormones that my body is not producing enough of. This medication while replacing some of the hormones I am missing also signals to my body to stop producing, so the longer I am on it the higher dosage I will need. This is why I have the poll, how long do you think it will While I am glad I am taking this medication I have started to notice more and more of the symptoms of hypothyroidism creep into my life.
I have little to no energy to do anything and this week I have had a hard time sleeping when it is time to sleep (insomnia) even as I type this (Wednesday afternoon) I should be sleeping but I can't. I am so tired that when I got home from work I sat down for what was to be 5 minutes and slept for 2 hours, missing classes. I have spoken to my professors and let them know what is going on and for the most part they are ok with it and are working with me so I don't have late assignments and things.
I am almost never hungry. I have no desire to eat food... at all, except maybe freshly made tortilla chips. Its hard because I know I have to eat but often the sight of food makes me feel sick. There are other ones that I notice but I don;t want to post on the blog.
So that brings you to today... (well when I typed this)... so now its just me living day by day.
I don't know when or why but at some point over the last year my thyroid started to die (under produce). The signs of Hyperthyroidism and Hypothyroidism I can see throughout most of my "adult" life. The thyroid controls or regulates a lot of our lives. It controls metabolism (greatly influencing weight), mood and energy. Looking back when I have had problems with these things we never looked into the thyroid only treating symptoms.
For the past month since I have found out what it is, I have been taking Levothyroxin to help replace some of the T3 and T4 hormones that my body is not producing enough of. This medication while replacing some of the hormones I am missing also signals to my body to stop producing, so the longer I am on it the higher dosage I will need. This is why I have the poll, how long do you think it will While I am glad I am taking this medication I have started to notice more and more of the symptoms of hypothyroidism creep into my life.
I have little to no energy to do anything and this week I have had a hard time sleeping when it is time to sleep (insomnia) even as I type this (Wednesday afternoon) I should be sleeping but I can't. I am so tired that when I got home from work I sat down for what was to be 5 minutes and slept for 2 hours, missing classes. I have spoken to my professors and let them know what is going on and for the most part they are ok with it and are working with me so I don't have late assignments and things.
I am almost never hungry. I have no desire to eat food... at all, except maybe freshly made tortilla chips. Its hard because I know I have to eat but often the sight of food makes me feel sick. There are other ones that I notice but I don;t want to post on the blog.
So that brings you to today... (well when I typed this)... so now its just me living day by day.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
The wait....
The first week after I was told my results were spent looking at the possibilities of what I had and what it could amount to. I researched all the reliable sites that I could find. I went to class and ignored my readings and homework for my classes because I wanted to know I could about what was going on.
I started to eat 4 to 6 times a day to help with the hypoglycemia. Everything else I was just waited and learned about. I found myself getting sick, I believe that I went a month with being sick at least once a week. It didn't always keep me from doing things but it was annoying not feeling well and I didn't want to go out and have "fun." I just wanted to be lazy and sleep. I felt better after a while and didn't get sick for maybe another month.
I didn't feel 100 percent but I started to take daily vitamins and this helped... I started to live.. I did things but I would usually come back about once a day and think about what was going on. Just looked up more information and started to focus more on my homework.
As this month went on I started to get more and more tired. I was rarely getting hungry when it was time to eat. I wasn't getting sick though so I just kept trucking on. On October 9th I got a cold, a normal cough, some of my roommates had the same cough. They woke up the next morning and they were just fine. I however got worse, and worse, and worse. I had this cold for about a week and a half, on October 20 I went back to the doctors for my cold.
The normal cold had developed into bacterial bronchitis, I was prescribed some antibiotics and a stronger cold medication than what I was taking. We also decided to run another round of thyroid tests. I did the blood work and went to go get my prescription and go to bed to try and get better.
I started to eat 4 to 6 times a day to help with the hypoglycemia. Everything else I was just waited and learned about. I found myself getting sick, I believe that I went a month with being sick at least once a week. It didn't always keep me from doing things but it was annoying not feeling well and I didn't want to go out and have "fun." I just wanted to be lazy and sleep. I felt better after a while and didn't get sick for maybe another month.
I didn't feel 100 percent but I started to take daily vitamins and this helped... I started to live.. I did things but I would usually come back about once a day and think about what was going on. Just looked up more information and started to focus more on my homework.
As this month went on I started to get more and more tired. I was rarely getting hungry when it was time to eat. I wasn't getting sick though so I just kept trucking on. On October 9th I got a cold, a normal cough, some of my roommates had the same cough. They woke up the next morning and they were just fine. I however got worse, and worse, and worse. I had this cold for about a week and a half, on October 20 I went back to the doctors for my cold.
The normal cold had developed into bacterial bronchitis, I was prescribed some antibiotics and a stronger cold medication than what I was taking. We also decided to run another round of thyroid tests. I did the blood work and went to go get my prescription and go to bed to try and get better.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
The Doctor..
I found a doctor that took my insurance and set up an appointment to go in the next Monday, August 30. My Doctor is now Dr Brad M. Goates, while talking about my symptoms we suggested that we also do blood work not only for diabetes/hypoglycemia but to take my thyroid counts.
I don't know about you but I love am ok with having my blood drawn. I would much rather have a needle put into me and have it take out blood then to get any kind of shot. Taking my blood was no worry. What I was worried about is that I would need to give my self shots if I was diabetic.
When the blood work came back we found out that I am a little bit hypoglycemic and my immune system is attaching my Thyroid. This means that I have a autoimmune diseases at this point we did not know what kind it was.. however one of the nurses misread the doctors notes and told me that I had a over active thyroid, hyperthyroidism.
I started preparing myself for taking beta blockers and living watching for signs that my thyroid had gone into extra over drive so I would be able to catch any further problems/complications before they got bad.
However, the doctor had wrote in his notes that he didn't think it was hyperthyroidism because when my test were done my T3/T4 counts (thyroid hormones, thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3)) were normal but my body was creating antibodies that were still attacking the thyroid meaning there was a problem and I needed to come back in later to have more tests run.
I don't know about you but I
When the blood work came back we found out that I am a little bit hypoglycemic and my immune system is attaching my Thyroid. This means that I have a autoimmune diseases at this point we did not know what kind it was.. however one of the nurses misread the doctors notes and told me that I had a over active thyroid, hyperthyroidism.
I started preparing myself for taking beta blockers and living watching for signs that my thyroid had gone into extra over drive so I would be able to catch any further problems/complications before they got bad.
However, the doctor had wrote in his notes that he didn't think it was hyperthyroidism because when my test were done my T3/T4 counts (thyroid hormones, thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3)) were normal but my body was creating antibodies that were still attacking the thyroid meaning there was a problem and I needed to come back in later to have more tests run.
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