Synthroid Sleeplessness

Now that my synthroid is up to 250 mcg, I am back to not sleeping. I am still taking it at night and two hours before I take it I take an Advil PM as well. Even with the Advil PM I can’t sleep more than 5 hours a night. I am getting a lot done, but I am exhausted the next day and not getting a lot done when I should. It is not a fair trade off. The synthroid is absorbing better as my last numbers showed 8 down to 1.7 TSH level. Although the endocrinologist said that is not low enough for a cancer patient. People who had a tumor in their thyroid and had a complete thyroid removal should be less than one but over zero, delicate balancing act I think. I am going to see about taking less synthroid but not a drop all the way down to 225 again. If he prescribed me 75 mcg synthroid I could cut them in half and add that to the 200 pill and have 37.5 mcg, so 237.5 a day perhaps that would be a good balance. I’ll ask him in August when he does the year after ultrasound of the area.

Great News!

Great news! The biopsy showed it was just a cyst that looked different. I am very excited by this, although what a panic. Apparently this is the deal with cysts in the breast. If they get in there and it is solid it may be cancer and requires further testing, if they get in there and only pull out fluid it definitely isn't. so mine was fluid, the radiologist said it was like motor oil. Um ewww.