Level Finally!

1.7 TSH finally! Yahoo. Yay! The nighttime dose is good. Ooops and I started the 250 mcg Friday night. So, 4 nights at that dose. I’ll go back to the 225 mcg now. I think that will be fine. I am very happy 8 to 1.7 in 7 weeks. There must be a better absorption rate of the synthroid when it is taken right before bed allowing it all of that sleeping time to absorb, instead of taking it an hour and a half before breakfast only giving it an hour and a half to absorb. I would also have to assume by the lab results that the 2 hours of not eating before taking the synthroid is long enough. If anyone is counting it took 11 months to get my TSH level straightened out since my total thyroid removal. It’s been a long haul and with all of the complaining I do, I feel glad to be alive and to have had the “best” cancer that someone can get, so that now I’m okay.

Now for a check up on two sketchy spots on a mammogram tomorrow. It’s always something...

Dr's Visit

I went to the doctor on Friday. I have to wonder why. She just sat in the chair and I sat on the edge of the exam table and we had a conversation, couldn’t we have done that on the phone? Actually no because you can never actually talk to a doctor on the phone, you mix messages with nurses and whoever answers the phone and get answering machine messages answering questions you never asked, and no answers to the questions you did ask. I also had my blood work done at the lab and will let you know as soon as I know about the nighttime dosing, if it has effected my TSH levels.

I don’t mean to bitch about the new doctors; I guess I am just used to a different level of personalization. My child’s pediatrician is wonderful. I can talk to her anytime day or night and she personally returns my calls. Last winter she even let me bring my child to the office and met us there at 10:30 at night, so my girl could get started on antibiotics right away so she could go on her class trips. The pediatrician also knows that I panic when my baby is sick and “handles” me appropriately, if you know what I mean.

Anyway, it was a good visit after all. She doesn’t think I am lactose intolerant but am having trouble in my intestines. I will try to take Citrucel everyday and see what happens. The higher levels of TSH really mess around with digestion. Perhaps it is that simple, that would be nice. I am not above trying anything to feel better. She also reiterated that my weight should straighten out when my levels do.

On the soy issue, I had to tell her that I have drastically reduced my intake of soy, but if you check the label on anything that isn’t essentially fresh produce, it contains soybean oil. Apparently, this is magical stuff, so they put it in anything and everything. So, I do not feel that although I have eliminated straight up soy like: tofu, vege burgers, dogs, sausage, Chinese food with sauces and edememe, that I have eliminated all soy. Soy, remember, lessens the absorption of the synthroid. She gave me a prescription for 250 mcg of synthroid in anticipation of labs that are too high. Which isn’t positive thinking but nonetheless realistic I’m sure. I am starting to feel tired again during the day. She does feel however when I am regulated, I can start eating the soy again, and they will jack the micrograms up a bit to compensate because soy is healthy and eliminating it has completely changed my diets. Now that I have eliminated the dairy too, it is hard to find foods I want to eat, and yet I have not lost weight.

Beyond that I anxiously await my labs to see where I am at and if the nighttime dosing is helping or hindering...