At the moment I feel like crap. Permanently. I just have almost no energy, I wake up feeling no better than the night before, yawning, aching and stumbling, bleary-eyed, through the day. It takes a stupid amount of mental effort just to get out of bed in the morning.
By the time I leave work there is no juice left in my brain. I cannot concentrate hard enough or think enough to do any studying and things like housework, ironing clothes and making dinner are just far too much effort. I’ve had to force myself to iron some clothes tonight, just so I have things to wear tomorrow. Usually I am not this far behind.
I had been pinning my hopes of returning to the land of the living awake people on some blood tests. I have to take synthetic thyroxine because I was born with a knackered thyroid gland, a condition which used to be called ‘cretinism’. I am not making this up, if I was born much earlier than I was I’d have ended up a drooling midget spackoid, which I believe is the current politically correct term.
Anyway, if I do not have enough of this thyroxine stuff I get symptoms like fatigue, depression, my memory goes worse, I find it difficult to concentrate and so on…
I’ve been getting all of this over the last couple of months so I went for a blood test to check my levels of thyroxine. When the results were in I received a letter asking me to make an appointment to discuss my dose of medication. I though this would prove me right, but no. It has not.
My dose of thyroxine has been reduced and my doctor says I should have had the opposite symptoms to what I am having. I should have been hyperactive, had heart palpitations, felt on edge and anxious, etc.
This concerns me. I feel like a squashed McDonalds hamburger carton in a gutter, with a dirty big footprint on it. Next to some dog poo. In Swansea.
Unless my body has just been reacting in weird ways and I improve with the new dose, which begins tomorrow, I really have no idea what to do now and I worry that I am going to feel even worse because I’ll be on 7/8ths of the thyroxine I was taking, which is what keeps my metabolism ticking over at a normal-ish level.
Despair.
Edit: And, I almost forgot this, worst of all instead of taking two small fiddly 100mcg tablets I now need to take one 100mcg and three of the microscopic bastard 25mcg ones that I can never get out of the stupid blister packs. Bleeeuuughhh!
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Are you able to take a few days off work, and have some naps and a catch up with the ironing and things?
I hope the new dose does the trick anyway – you never know with biology. It does odd things sometimes.
Can’t take time off, sadly. I just get weekends to attempt to recharge my batteries.
I was supposed to be in Leeds at a party on Saturday but this could be off if things don’t get better in the next few days. Which is REALLY annoying.
My entire body hates me.
Hiya,
Not sure if it would help but boots do a service where they put the meds in a daily dose for you and it is supposed to make it easier for you. It is a free service, you just need to register with them and tell them which meds you take when. Hope it helps and hope you are soon feeling yourself again.
love
June
Just decided to go for one giant hassle and empty them all at once. They’ll still ping all over the place when I try to pick them up, but at least they are out of the blister packs.
could you be anaemic (did they test for that), or maybe you’re pregnant.
I too have an ironing problem on account of my wonky arm; And I get tired very frequently, but then I don’t have to hold a job down anymore, thank goodness. here’s hoping your new lower dose does turn out to be the answer.
Only had thyroid type tests done. I’ll get other tests if my new dose doesn’t sort me out within a few weeks.
was wondering where you were the last few days.
maybe you’ve got a bug? not an handily obvious one you can call flu or whatever, but you’re just.. at a low ebb. it happens. it happens with me.
it may be an obvious thing to say, but try and get lots of rest/sleep, eat lots of fruit and veg, etc. it won’t do any harm, anyway.
If you used Facebook or Twitter you’d have got a running commentary of whinging and complaining. :p
Could be a bug, someone at work has the same sort of thing going on – I’d just put it down to medication and I’ve been proved wrong when they did science to my blood.
Got to give it a few weeks for my thyroxine levels to normalise and go back to the nice doctor lady if I still feel like a hedgehog stain on the M1.