Interview/right-thing-happening~ma for meara.

I just heard back from the doctor wrt the results of my latest round of thyroid testing - he's recommending doubling the current dosage of meds. I guess if what I'm on can make me tired when I'm supposed to be tired - enough to actually get to sleep - twice as much might possibly make me feel somewhat more energetic when I'm supposed to be awake. I hope.

I'll probably spend the rest of my life wondering why it takes 20 seconds to find a doctor to prescribe appetite suppressants chemically related to amphetamines, but 20 years to find a doctor who thinks it is rational to test thyroid function by testing thyroid function.

Appropriate ~ma to meara, erika, and Morgana.

WindSparrow, I am so angry on your behalf.

Nora, none left, I don't think. I have my 1st appt with a psychiatrist today, but I'm guessing asking for a side of Flexeril wouldn't go well. I took a hot bath, and managed to pop it back in with a belly dance move, but it's gotten worse today. Can't twist at all. So I may be headed to urgent care after my psych appt. Yayes.

WS: I'm glad you have a doc who is doing the correct testing on you. I will say, based on my experience, you will be adjusting your thyroid meds for the rest of your life. It took a good year for me to get to the right dose and I get little tweaks every 6-12 months.

My experience has been the same. My thyroid meds get tweaked every few years, not every few months, but they get tweaked regularly.

but 20 years to find a doctor who thinks it is rational to test thyroid function by testing thyroid function.

I'm not sure what you mean by this. I thought the standard test for thyroid function is to test TSH. Often when you test the thyroid directly you get results in the normal range when in fact TSH is working way too hard to keep the thyroid functioning.

At urgent care. Fingers crossed I get out in time to make my 4 pm psych appt.

Out of urgent care, and hella early for psych appt. I pulled a back muscle, shocker. Gave me naproxen with magnesium and scripts for Flexeril and Tylenol codeine (precioussss). Now, about getting back into yoga... Doc was funny and kind of cute, but straight I think. My BP was 98/50, even after two cups of coffee, one of hot chocolate, and just having smoked a cigarette. The nurse who took my vitals asked if I was a marathon runner. AHAHA no.

Bad news is I can't lift anything over 5 lbs for a week. Good news is that we just finished a big project today and I was going to be in the office until Xmas anyway.

Glad you got in and out of there, smonster- did you go to the place on Magazine Street? I really like them there.

That's the one! They had me on file from my eye incident back two years ago when I was visiting y'all.

Nowadays I think they recommend that they run T3 and T4 in addition to TSH to get a better picture than TSH alone, but I don't know that all doctors are on board with that yet.

Just went to pick up some Chinese food for dinner, and ended up in the background of a newscast. Ugh. What is there to broadcast here now? Here's where the preliminary hearing is going to be next week? Nothing's happening here, other than reporters.

Also, I keep getting confused when I enter or leave the house and try to either get my keys from or put my keys on the table and then remember that the table is in my bedroom now. Really need to get this fixed before it drives me insane. (I get kind of weird about furniture type stuff. I put things where I want them, and I put them there for a reason, and them not being there makes me antsy.)