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.
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ChiKat - Dec 08, 2011 9:14:11 am PST #3900 of 30001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Burrell - Dec 08, 2011 9:32:05 am PST #3901 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
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.
smonster - Dec 08, 2011 9:57:43 am PST #3902 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
At urgent care. Fingers crossed I get out in time to make my 4 pm psych appt.
smonster - Dec 08, 2011 11:16:58 am PST #3903 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
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.
Nora Deirdre - Dec 08, 2011 11:20:40 am PST #3904 of 30001
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Glad you got in and out of there, smonster- did you go to the place on Magazine Street? I really like them there.
smonster - Dec 08, 2011 11:23:50 am PST #3905 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
That's the one! They had me on file from my eye incident back two years ago when I was visiting y'all.
d - Dec 08, 2011 11:37:15 am PST #3906 of 30001
It's nice to see some brave pretenders trying to make it interesting.
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.
Hil R. - Dec 08, 2011 12:42:47 pm PST #3907 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
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.)
ChiKat - Dec 08, 2011 1:12:09 pm PST #3908 of 30001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Nowadays I think they recommend that they run T3 and T4 in addition to TSH
I always get all 3 done. And, occassionally get thyroglobulin markers done but that's for something different.
meara - Dec 08, 2011 1:36:01 pm PST #3909 of 30001
Nowadays I think they recommend that they run T3 and T4 in addition to TSH
I've heard this, but I feel weird asking my doctors "OMG, but WHICH thyroid tests are you going to run?!?"
Yay for getting some meds, smonster! Yay for urgent care.
I had the interview...not sure how they felt about me. Not sure how I felt about them. So hard to make a big decision like that based on a few hours of info! Eek. I think the guy I liked best was apparently looked down on by the others (though he's the head of his department, it's not the one I'd be in). He was pretty chill. :)