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

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.
Posted by Derek at 4:00 AM

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