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

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.
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