medical mucky-muck
I think Dr. O, the Chiro, is helping me. The headaches are definately less frequent and I am SO HAPPEEEEEE!!!!!!
Woo! Praise the Lord! :D
The neck pain is even letting up now. You can't believe how much better that makes me feel!
If I just had some energy, that would be REALLLLY nice.
Monday, I got in to see my GP, Dr. K and he did a thyroid test jiggy. Seems my TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone) is down, which means I'm taking too much thyroid med....so I'm getting a lower dose to start on. Maybe THAT will make me feel better.
I tell ya, there's not much worse thing you can have out of kelter than your thyroid....well, except your blood sugar...but that's noticed more immediately. The thyroid on the other hand, comes on slowly so you don't notice it. You just wake up one day and want to go right back to sleep and STAY ASLEEP ALL DAY LONG!!!!!!!!!
Gah. Anyhow, I'm praying that the lower dose will bring up the energy level. Please, Lord?!
He also put me on a 3-day Zpak, a 5-dayM3dr0l (pr3dni$on3) pak and some cough syrup for this awful hack I've had for over a month. Says it's "post bronchitis".
Ha. No duh! Sheesh! I'd called him about 2.or so weeks ago about it and he said to just wait and see if it cleared up on its own.....but I could come in to see him any time. Yeah.....
Gah. Anyhow, maybe I'm getting better. It WAS getting better by the time I saw the doc, but it just wouldn't GO AWAY! I didn't think I would be able to get rid of it on my own. If I was out in the night air, it'd get a little worse, ya know? So I figured I might oughta get some meds for it, bad as I hated to. *sigh*
According to the doc's scales, I'd lost about 14 pounds. Go me! That's just from not eating so much. Loss of appitite --- side effect from one of my other meds. I HOPE the change in thyroid med will let me have the energy to exercise a bit now! If I could just walk a little, or go down and use Mom's @bloung3r...that'd do wonders for my flabby ol' self, I'd think.
Maybe soon..... maybe soon.....
Okie-dokie....there you go. The Medical Mucky-Muck on Me. ;)
All you never wanted to know, huh?! LOL!
Comments
so glad to hear your starting to feel better. headaches and such. hope the thyroid med adjustment kicks in SOON. oh, yeah, and the cough meds, too.
I was reading this, thinking I heard this before. then it finally dawned on me, that I read it in the email, that I STILL haven't answered. lol
um...yeah...i'll work on that... :)
Posted by: Girl's Mother | May 11, 2006 01:06 PM
LOL! Yeah, it was pretty much dejavu, eh? ;) I'm not very original today.
After all that bragging? My BP's been low all day! WHAT GIVES?!?!?!
*sigh* Feel like I'm walking thru molasses. If I feel like this tomorrow, I guess it's back to see the doc. *blech!*
But at least no headaches whilst walking in molasses! LOL! Now THAT would be BAD!!!
;)
Posted by: G~ | May 11, 2006 05:47 PM
Sounds like the chiro is helping. A good bone crack can do wonders!
Hopefully the lower dose of thyroid stuff will give you some pep. Less is more?
Posted by: AbbyNormal | May 11, 2006 06:27 PM
I guess walking through molasses with a headache would be very bad!
can you even walk in molasses? isn't it too thick and gloppy?
well, whatever, I hope you feel better today!
And I'll get to that email....sometime....TODAY...I will!!
Posted by: Girl's Mother | May 12, 2006 08:06 AM
glad the headaches are subsiding and congrats on the weight loss. :) feel better hun
Posted by: mrs. diamond | May 12, 2006 01:02 PM
Glad the headaches are better. Hope you get to feeling better soon!
Posted by: Sandy | May 13, 2006 12:32 AM
Great news about the headache! And I too have had bllo sugar and thyroid undulations (HA!) so I knw what you mean ... ugh! My TSH went all over the map in a three-month period once and I went from total insomnia and constant disruption to lethargy and round-the-clock sleepiness, and back again. ANd I won't even go into the serum glucose stuff ...
Posted by: chrysalii | May 13, 2006 06:12 AM