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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Hepatitis / September 2005The Thyroid Chronicles
Well here's my latest data folks. Midway thru week 27 my doc called and said stop tx. Seems my TSH thyroid and WBC are unacceptable to him. WBC is at 2.4 (normal is 4.5-11) and TSH is at 0.20 (normal is .27-4.2).Neupogen is prescribed for the WBC, but will take days to happen because I must go thru my mailorder pharmacy or pay 500$/mo for it (insured!) locally. So we make lots of phone calls and wait. The thyroid number is pretty extreme. Because of an inverse correlation, the very low number indicates high hyperthyroid. Oddly, I don't feel as awful as I did the first six months of tx, when thyroid was *controlled* with synthroid. I'm new at the chinese puzzle of thyroid numbers and it is a very boring subject to everyone, including my endocrinologist, but my tx doc seems to think that this number will get her attention, so I wait also for her call. No real indication of how long this lag might take. I am most unhappy about it because i had reached a kind of equilibrium with tx. To recap, I'm geno 1b, was hypothyroid for years before tx, now 27 weeks into tx, but with a 4 week lapse also at week 12 because of vision troubles. Undetectable at week 12 and week 24 :) which is what keeps me going. My riba and Infer dose have been at about 80% of recommended for some time, partly because my weight dropped 25 pound to 120 in the first few months and i was having one heck of a time. I'll be making phone calls every day and holding sit-ins at the docs until we get this rolling again. Comments on the numbers? Beautiful friday evening here in the Rockies. How's that pooch Elmo? Kathy Well crap i typed that thyroid number wrong. My TSH is 0.020 and the normal range is 0.27 - 4.2. So it is way out of range. I should be bouncing off the walls but i'm sitting here quietly. Who knows? Kathy P.S. Today's stuck-in-my-head tune: (in Lyle's voice) I lit out from Reno I was trailed by twenty hounds Didn't get to sleep that night Till the morning came around I set out running but I take my time A friend of the Devil is a friend of mine If I get home before daylight I might get some sleep tonight I ran into the Devil, babe He loaned me twenty bills I spent that night in Utah In a cave up in the hills I set out running but I take my time A friend of the devil is a friend of mine If I get home before daylight I might get some sleep tonight I don't know why he stopped your tx. My TSH was 0.01 when i went hyper on tx. They put me on tapazole and then I went hypo with a TSH of 150.00. I still continued tx. Interferon really plays the thyroid for a fool. If you cleared at 12 weeks thats a very good sign. My wbc was 4.7 and rbc was 4.36 at the lowest. If your not feeling real screwed up from being hyper you may already have passed this part and returning to hypo. When are you going to see the Endo? and how many weeks do you have left? More than likely you will become hypo again the average for women is hypo on tx and after tx, and only a few become hyper after its all over mostly men. Russ is hyper from tx and his thyroid will probably burn its self out in time. Hang in there and wait for the stuff in the mail. TX is full of surprises. Juanita Aug 26, 2005, 3:56pm (PDT+3) From: kjohyayhoo@nospamyahoo.com (kjoh) Well crap i typed that thyroid number wrong. My TSH is 0.020 and the normal range is 0.27 - 4.2. So it is way out of range. I should be bouncing off the walls but i'm sitting here quietly. Who knows? Kathy P.S. Today's stuck-in-my-head tune: (in Lyle's voice) I lit out from Reno I was trailed by twenty hounds Didn't get to sleep that night Till the morning came around I set out running but I take my time A friend of the Devil is a friend of mine If I get home before daylight I might get some sleep tonight I ran into the Devil, babe He loaned me twenty bills I spent that night in Utah In a cave up in the hills I set out running but I take my time A friend of the devil is a friend of mine If I get home before daylight I might get some sleep tonight >Russ is hyper from tx and his thyroid will probably burn its > self out in time. YES MAMN I AM I AM!! I had the antibodies test, I have both for Graves and Hashimoto. Sort of a tug a war...... funny, harder I work, the more hyper, no work I crash like an atom bomb and sleep and sleep.... yea maybe someday, but not for now. I'm really doing ok, as long as I can get my sleep.  SignatureRuss Visit Alaska @ http://www.tannersacre.com > I don't know why he stopped your tx. My TSH was 0.01 when i went hyper > on tx. They put me on tapazole and then I went hypo with a TSH of [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > A friend of the devil is a friend of mine If I get home before daylight > I might get some sleep tonight I have been wondering about how your doing, Lovely Russ just lovely, there is tx for you with tapazole or PTU (thyroid inhibitors) it comes in as little as 5mg on up which will stop the madness of the hyper, if you get the thyroid under control and put it to sleep with tapazole then the lacking of T4-T3 can be replaced with thyroid hormones if you need them. A common treatment for Graves until the thyroid shuts it self down. Your thyroid is a mess from hell, like mine. Graves/hashimoto's what F---ing fun. This hyper situation is not good it accelerates liver disease and other stuff, your sounding like your getting beyond the atenolol and xanax for relief. Eventually their not going to have any effect on you. I was hyper before tx and found great relief from only 5mg of tapazole along with atenolol. Valium had no effect after a while. It isn't strange the more and harder you work the more your thyroid will over produce. Not fun at all when you cant sleep. Now, don't keep this risky hyper thyroid business going. Do something before you end up with a heart attack. What are your type & numbers on the abs tests? so far I got Thyroid stimulating Immunoblobin 95 cut off >129 this is the graves one. Anti Thyroglobulin 20 cut off is >25 Antithyroid Peroxidase will be done 9-9 still in the dark on this one. Selenium backs off abs and lowers them, so I am taking 200mcg a day. I am at last, getting better. The last dose raise of Armour about killed me but brought me up at last. This has taken 4 months so far and will probably need to raise it 2 more times. grrrrr. You take care Russ and keep calm. Juanita sourdo55 at yahoo.com (Russ) Russ is hyper from tx and his thyroid will probably burn its self out in time. YES MAMN I AM I AM!! I had the antibodies test, I have both for Graves and Hashimoto. Sort of a tug a war...... funny, harder I work, the more hyper, no work I crash like an atom bomb and sleep and sleep.... yea maybe someday, but not for now. I'm really doing ok, as long as I can get my sleep. SignatureRuss Visit Alaska @ http://www.tannersacre.com "JV" <Meling333@webtv.net> wrote in message news:3832-430FBF26-243@storefull-3178.bay.webtv.net... I don't know why he stopped your tx. My TSH was 0.01 when i went hyper on tx. They put me on tapazole and then I went hypo with a TSH of 150.00. I still continued tx. Interferon really plays the thyroid for a fool. If you cleared at 12 weeks thats a very good sign. My wbc was 4.7 and rbc was 4.36 at the lowest. If your not feeling real screwed up from being hyper you may already have passed this part and returning to hypo. When are you going to see the Endo? and how many weeks do you have left? More than likely you will become hypo again the average for women is hypo on tx and after tx, and only a few become hyper after its all over mostly men. Russ is hyper from tx and his thyroid will probably burn its self out in time. Hang in there and wait for the stuff in the mail. TX is full of surprises. Juanita Juanita- I haven't a clue what my test results were as I've been working and haven't been back to the doc's yet. But I gotta eat and pay the rent so that will have to wait a bit, maybe in a couple of weeks I'll get in there and see what's up with the blood work. And get a hard copy. I can't get it across them to MAIL ME THE f.cking TEST RESULTS. I'm going to lay down the law there. A couple a months ago I had a TSH and a Free T-4, they did mail me the results. A note on the test, "Everything is looking normal". I had to look up the ranges, I was above the normal range for T-4. I caught the Dr. on that the next time I saw him, he didn't have much to say. That's when I quit taking levothyroxin. A month later I quit the Cymbalta (over a month ago), I feel more like my old self then ever before. Man that treatment really kick the snot out of me, but lately I am doing ok. I'm going to stick with what I'm doing for now as it works and I feel pretty f.cking good. Maybe when I get done with work some time off might help to settle things down. One thing I have noticed, I feel more like I used to feel, I've always been very energetic and a hard worker. Perhaps I have had a slight over active thyroid all along?? My TSH when I started this mess was 2.09. Anyway, as long as I sleep, I'm ok. Xanax work great, I sleep good and the atenolol work well to keep the heart rate down and BP in normal range. I'll deal with this later this fall when work grinds to a halt. Fall is here, the smell of the cranberries and the coolness of the nights are upon us, in a month it will be close to winter. I love it here!! SignatureRuss Visit Alaska @ http://www.tannersacre.com I have been wondering about how your doing, Lovely Russ just lovely, there is tx for you with tapazole or PTU (thyroid inhibitors) it comes in as little as 5mg on up which will stop the madness of the hyper, if you get the thyroid under control and put it to sleep with tapazole then the lacking of T4-T3 can be replaced with thyroid hormones if you need them. A common treatment for Graves until the thyroid shuts it self down. Your thyroid is a mess from hell, like mine. Graves/hashimoto's what F---ing fun. This hyper situation is not good it accelerates liver disease and other stuff, your sounding like your getting beyond the atenolol and xanax for relief. Eventually their not going to have any effect on you. I was hyper before tx and found great relief from only 5mg of tapazole along with atenolol. Valium had no effect after a while. It isn't strange the more and harder you work the more your thyroid will over produce. Not fun at all when you cant sleep. Now, don't keep this risky hyper thyroid business going. Do something before you end up with a heart attack. What are your type & numbers on the abs tests? so far I got Thyroid stimulating Immunoblobin 95 cut off >129 this is the graves one. Anti Thyroglobulin 20 cut off is >25 Antithyroid Peroxidase will be done 9-9 still in the dark on this one. Selenium backs off abs and lowers them, so I am taking 200mcg a day. I am at last, getting better. The last dose raise of Armour about killed me but brought me up at last. This has taken 4 months so far and will probably need to raise it 2 more times. grrrrr. You take care Russ and keep calm. Juanita sourdo55 at yahoo.com (Russ) Russ is hyper from tx and his thyroid will probably burn its self out in time. YES MAMN I AM I AM!! I had the antibodies test, I have both for Graves and Hashimoto. Sort of a tug a war...... funny, harder I work, the more hyper, no work I crash like an atom bomb and sleep and sleep.... yea maybe someday, but not for now. I'm really doing ok, as long as I can get my sleep. SignatureRuss Visit Alaska @ http://www.tannersacre.com "JV" <Meling333@webtv.net> wrote in message news:3832-430FBF26-243@storefull-3178.bay.webtv.net... I don't know why he stopped your tx. My TSH was 0.01 when i went hyper on tx. They put me on tapazole and then I went hypo with a TSH of 150.00. I still continued tx. Interferon really plays the thyroid for a fool. If you cleared at 12 weeks thats a very good sign. My wbc was 4.7 and rbc was 4.36 at the lowest. If your not feeling real screwed up from being hyper you may already have passed this part and returning to hypo. When are you going to see the Endo? and how many weeks do you have left? More than likely you will become hypo again the average for women is hypo on tx and after tx, and only a few become hyper after its all over mostly men. Russ is hyper from tx and his thyroid will probably burn its self out in time. Hang in there and wait for the stuff in the mail. TX is full of surprises. Juanita Kjoh, Larry has been on Neupogen all along. His white count is 2.2 now and drops .3 every month, even while on the Neupogen. But his platelets have gone up. They also seem to focus on Neutraphil (spell?) levels. The MD offices absolutly have some of this to give out so try pleading with your MD to allow you to stay on. I would ask the doctor's office to call your pharmacy mail order house on your behalf. The people at Roche (call the nurse) hotline will also contact the company for you, provided you take the Pegasys product. Someone just quoted a song for me "all the roads of life are winding, all that leads you are blinding". I don't necessarily get into this, but I must admit it's catchy. I've never heard the song. Hang in there! Wendy Hey Juanita, Sue, Wendy, thanks for your posts, and the numbers you were able to provide for quick comparison. I also just got a call from my Endocrinologist, she said the TSH number was no reason to pull me off Tx and she clarified that today with my tx doc. Amazmo. Something good just happened here. The cosmos momentarily aligned :) So except for waiting (a week maybe?) for the Neupogen to arrive, there's really no reason for me to interrupt tx... I'll go over this with my doc early next week. In the meantime I feel so confused I might accidentally continue my regular dosing... :) Many thanks for the swift contact. Wendy welcome back. I'm newish here. We're always interested in hearing other folks data, even yours (we all have a variation on chronic fatigue in this group) So anytime you have the energy to share your stories, we are interested. Doing better now. Think I'll have some fat. Kathy Wow!! Glad that you are still on tx, good luck with your tsh and wbc. Hang in there until they cut you down! Sue >Kjoh, >Larry has been on Neupogen all along. His white count is 2.2 now and [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Wendy You have it right, Neutrophil counts are clearly the key for dose modification and/or intervention with human growth factors. WBC counts aren't even mentioned in the product information sheets for Roche's combo therapy, they key on Absolute Neutrophil Counts, and recommend modification of therapy if it goes below 0.5 10^3/ml. I've noticed if I'm having a good RBC/HGB week, my plates and whites are down, and vice versa. I ought to try to find out if this is expected, I really don't know enough about bone marrow considering how much I've been hammering mine over the last 43 weeks... Cheers /greyhackles Re: The Thyroid Chronicles Group: alt.support.hepatitis-c Date: Fri, Aug 26, 2005, 3:56pm (CDT+1) From: kjohyayhoo@nospamyahoo.com (kjoh) Well crap i typed that thyroid number wrong. My TSH is 0.020 and the normal range is 0.27 - 4.2. So it is way out of range. I should be bouncing off the walls but i'm sitting here quietly. Who knows? Kathy P.S. Today's stuck-in-my-head tune: (in Lyle's voice) I lit out from Reno I was trailed by twenty hounds Didn't get to sleep that night Till the morning came around I set out running but I take my time A friend of the Devil is a friend of mine If I get home before daylight I might get some sleep tonight I ran into the Devil, babe He loaned me twenty bills I spent that night in Utah In a cave up in the hills I set out running but I take my time A friend of the devil is a friend of mine If I get home before daylight I might get some sleep tonight /////// Lyle? Or do you mean "Jerry'? :-) elmo http://community.webtv.net/elmoemerson/DocElmosHepFile http://community.webtv.net/elmoemerson/TheFamilyAlbum I'm not the expert here, but in my opinion WBC isn't that low, at least not low enough to stop tx. I was 1.7 WBC from week one, when it fell to 1.3 at 6 weeks I was taken off tx instead of being put on Neupogen. Have your doc rethink this as you have a lot of time and effort invested in fighting this thing. Sue Sorry to hear you had to stop. I would have argued with the doc about that in spite of the numbers as long as I felt ok. With a little luck, you still may very well have beaten the dragon. Heidi isn't doing very well. The vet has me giving her antibiotics as well as the prednisone. If she hasn't improved in the next week or so or if she continues to decline, I'll have a tough decision to make. Elmo http://community.webtv.net/elmoemerson/DocElmosHepFile http://community.webtv.net/elmoemerson/TheFamilyAlbum Hey Elmo, I'm sorry to hear that Heidi is still hurting. I am pulling for her. I bet you'll be surprised. My old fat cat is still pretty spry. She can sprint all the way across the yard when I rattle the kibble can. It's a downhill slope and she builds up so much speed and her back end is so fat that she almost goes into a headlong tumble every time. Friend of the Devil in Lyle's voice is from a collection album by various artists called Deadicated. It's a lovely version of the song. Mellow and poignant. Check it out. I was a little bit late coming into the rock and roll scene so I didn't evolve with the Dead and Jimmy and Janis the way others did, but I did loop in early enough to understand the magnitude. I'm still a major fan of Janis. I got really serious about rock about the time I laid eyes on Bruce touring for Born to Run in a small hall in Portland called the Paramount. I saw amazing things in that Hall. Waylon with Willie, Jackson with Warren, Robin Trower on his Birthday! Fogelburg and Kotke and Doc Watson and Bill Monroe... Pink floyd was at the helm in those days. How can it be that I was so fortunate? But I ramble. Hugs for you and Heidi from me and Smelly Cat :) :) P.S. I don't think I'll be breaking in tx after all. > Heidi isn't doing very well. The vet has me giving her antibiotics as > well as the prednisone. If she hasn't improved in the next week or so > or if she continues to decline, I'll have a tough decision to make. > Elmo Sorry Elmo, I have been there before, and it's not easy. I'll still be saying a few. eileen Dont give up on Heidi yet she is not a old dog hopefully this is just a bump in the road and I sure hope she can recover from this. What is wrong with her??, last post I read she had back problems? Sorry to hear she is not doing well. Juanita Aug 27, 2005, 9:22am (PDT+2) From: elmoemerson@webtv.net Sorry to hear you had to stop. I would have argued with the doc about that in spite of the numbers as long as I felt ok. With a little luck, you still may very well have beaten the dragon. Heidi isn't doing very well. The vet has me giving her antibiotics as well as the prednisone. If she hasn't improved in the next week or so or if she continues to decline, I'll have a tough decision to make. Elmo http://community.webtv.net/elmoemerson/DocElmosHepFile http://community.webtv.net/elmoemerson/TheFamilyAlbum I'm not giving up on my little girl unless it becomes obvious she's either in unbearable pain, which she's not, or til she doesn't want to go on. I haven't the faintest idea what the f.ck is wrong with her, nor does it seem like the vets know. She's been diagnosed with everything from pancreatitis to arthritis to some sort of tick borne illness in the past few weeks. Heidi is eating alright, a pound of steak and her dried food. I've been giving her medicine in a bowl of ice cream the last couple of days. She always has enjoyed her ice cream as well as hugs and kisses. Getting her up to go outside is a real chore. Her limbs just don't seem to work. She's very alert, you'd not know she was sick looking into her eyes, but she just doesn't move. Sort of like me on treatment. :-) I'm not giving up on her, Juanita, too many cats and squirrels to chase yet. Thanks, gal! Love you, Elmo //////////// Dont give up on Heidi yet she is not a old dog hopefully this is just a bump in the road and I sure hope she can recover from this. What is wrong with her??, last post I read she had back problems? Sorry to hear she is not doing well. Juanita Aug 27, 2005, 9:22am (PDT+2) From: elmoemerson@webtv.net Sorry to hear you had to stop. I would have argued with the doc about that in spite of the numbers as long as I felt ok. With a little luck, you still may very well have beaten the dragon. Heidi isn't doing very well. The vet has me giving her antibiotics as well as the prednisone. If she hasn't improved in the next week or so or if she continues to decline, I'll have a tough decision to make. Elmo http://community.webtv.net/elmoemerson/DocElmosHepFile http://community.webtv.net/elmoemerson/TheFamilyAlbum http://community.webtv.net/elmoemerson/DocElmosHepFile http://community.webtv.net/elmoemerson/TheFamilyAlbum She should be getting her antibiotics on an empty stomach absorption can be less with dairy foods. Was the tick borne illness in her blood tests? She sounds rather stiff and soar. Hope she gets better soon. If its arthritis, glucosamine has done wonder for dogs with arthritis, makes a big difference.. There is also allot of thyroid problems with dogs and cats now days has her thyroid been checked? In the alt.thyroid.support its quite interesting learning about humans and dogs and their thyroid problems. Good luck with her. Juanita > I'm not giving up on my little girl unless it becomes obvious she's > either in unbearable pain, which she's not, or til she doesn't want to [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > > http://community.webtv.net/elmoemerson/TheFamilyAlbum Elmo, maybe the prenisone is causing hallucinations as it has on me and on others as well (no I'm not joking). Or maybe it's the heat has gotten her down, or a combination of both. If it is arthritis I can sure empathize with her, if I get down on the floor to play with my daughter or cats, I have an extremely har time getting back up. Hope she starts to feel better soon and that difficult decision won't have to made for years to come. Dwight Elmo, If that was our girl and I couldn't get a proper dx/handle on the cause I would first try antibiotics (a doxycillin type) remember paralysis ticks and lyme ticks and hell knows what else. If there was no improvement I would then try steroids and remember some vets are way better than others (like liver docs). I really hope she gets better. doogie I'm not giving up on my little girl unless it becomes obvious she's either in unbearable pain, which she's not, or til she doesn't want to go on. I haven't the faintest idea what the f.ck is wrong with her, nor does it seem like the vets know. She's been diagnosed with everything from pancreatitis to arthritis to some sort of tick borne illness in the past few weeks. Heidi is eating alright, a pound of steak and her dried food. I've been giving her medicine in a bowl of ice cream the last couple of days. She always has enjoyed her ice cream as well as hugs and kisses. Getting her up to go outside is a real chore. Her limbs just don't seem to work. She's very alert, you'd not know she was sick looking into her eyes, but she just doesn't move. Sort of like me on treatment. :-) I'm not giving up on her, Juanita, too many cats and squirrels to chase yet. Thanks, gal! Love you, Elmo //////////// Dont give up on Heidi yet she is not a old dog hopefully this is just a bump in the road and I sure hope she can recover from this. What is wrong with her??, last post I read she had back problems? Sorry to hear she is not doing well. Juanita Aug 27, 2005, 9:22am (PDT+2) From: elmoemerson@webtv.net Sorry to hear you had to stop. I would have argued with the doc about that in spite of the numbers as long as I felt ok. With a little luck, you still may very well have beaten the dragon. Heidi isn't doing very well. The vet has me giving her antibiotics as well as the prednisone. If she hasn't improved in the next week or so or if she continues to decline, I'll have a tough decision to make. Elmo http://community.webtv.net/elmoemerson/DocElmosHepFile http://community.webtv.net/elmoemerson/TheFamilyAlbum http://community.webtv.net/elmoemerson/DocElmosHepFile http://community.webtv.net/elmoemerson/TheFamilyAlbum She's been taking prednisone, started her on doxycillin last Saturday. She's in a tailspin, won't get up except maybe twice a day to move from my entertainment room where I hang out to the bedroom when I crash at night. To get her out to the bathroom, I have to catch her on one of those two moments. She wouldn't eat or take her meds yesterday. At least she's drinking water if I set the bowl next to her. My vets are excellent. Thanks for your concern. It's heartbreaking seeing my gal not getting better. Elmo ////////// Elmo, If that was our girl and I couldn't get a proper dx/handle on the cause I would first try antibiotics (a doxycillin type) remember paralysis ticks and lyme ticks and hell knows what else. If there was no improvement I would then try steroids and remember some vets are way better than others (like liver docs). I really hope she gets better. doogie <elmoemerson@webtv.net> wrote in message news:665-43127AEA-238@storefull-3258.bay.webtv.net... I'm not giving up on my little girl unless it becomes obvious she's either in unbearable pain, which she's not, or til she doesn't want to go on. I haven't the faintest idea what the f.ck is wrong with her, nor does it seem like the vets know. She's been diagnosed with everything from pancreatitis to arthritis to some sort of tick borne illness in the past few weeks. Heidi is eating alright, a pound of steak and her dried food. I've been giving her medicine in a bowl of ice cream the last couple of days. She always has enjoyed her ice cream as well as hugs and kisses. Getting her up to go outside is a real chore. Her limbs just don't seem to work. She's very alert, you'd not know she was sick looking into her eyes, but she just doesn't move. Sort of like me on treatment. :-) I'm not giving up on her, Juanita, too many cats and squirrels to chase yet. Thanks, gal! Love you, Elmo //////////// Dont give up on Heidi yet she is not a old dog hopefully this is just a bump in the road and I sure hope she can recover from this. What is wrong with her??, last post I read she had back problems? Sorry to hear she is not doing well. Juanita Aug 27, 2005, 9:22am (PDT+2) From: elmoemerson@webtv.net Sorry to hear you had to stop. I would have argued with the doc about that in spite of the numbers as long as I felt ok. With a little luck, you still may very well have beaten the dragon. Heidi isn't doing very well. The vet has me giving her antibiotics as well as the prednisone. If she hasn't improved in the next week or so or if she continues to decline, I'll have a tough decision to make. Elmo http://community.webtv.net/elmoemerson/DocElmosHepFile http://community.webtv.net/elmoemerson/TheFamilyAlbum http://community.webtv.net/elmoemerson/DocElmosHepFile http://community.webtv.net/elmoemerson/TheFamilyAlbum http://community.webtv.net/elmoemerson/DocElmosHepFile http://community.webtv.net/elmoemerson/TheFamilyAlbum Elmo,My heart goes out to you.I feel your pain.I had to have my cat Sara put to sleep a few month's ago and it really f.cked me up.Although she was 20 years old that didn't make any difference to me.I still miss her with all my heart.Know that my thoughts are with you and your little girl. BrianD > She's been taking prednisone, started her on doxycillin last Saturday. > She's in a tailspin, won't get up except maybe twice a day to move from [quoted text clipped - 50 lines] > > http://community.webtv.net/elmoemerson/TheFamilyAlbum ha, I was .01 on my TSH , 3 weeks later it was 49..... that was about midway. Now here I am over a year after 48 weeks for 1a, and my thyroid is more HYPER then HYPO. I have had a lot of blood work on this but have yet to have the chance to see the Doc about it. Doc took me off of the synthroid. I've been off of them for almost 2 months. The harder I work the hyper I get, and insomnia is a real issue. Try working 14 hours and not sleep a second. Then the next day worked 15 hours. We were in Kodiak 30 miles south of the city, no cell phones, couldn't get ahold of my doc for more xanax and atenolol, BP running over 150/90, pulse 100+, sleeping was a f.cking bitch!!!! Forget Excedrin PM, worthless. Anyway, long story short, I got ahold of my doc's office over a cell that was on two bars of signal and was screaming to be heard, SEND ME A SCRIPT OF 90 25MG ATENOLOL AND 90 .5MG XANAX PLEASE SAFEWAY IN KODIAK CITY... phone bleeps out. To my surprise he sent those scripts and with the two I finally started to sleep good and work was possible. NO work, no pay, no insurance, no nothing. I was in-between a rock and a hard place. For now I'm doing good as long as I get my sleep. It's funny, the harder I work, the more HYPER my thyroid gets. I have 4 days off this weekend and hopefully will get some rest. BTW, I got a gravy job. Paving, easiest job I've had in years. No stress, no back breaking work, just run the paver.... in some great country too.. WHHHOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SignatureRuss Visit Alaska @ http://www.tannersacre.com > Well here's my latest data folks. Midway thru week 27 my doc called and > said stop tx. Seems my TSH thyroid and WBC are unacceptable to him. WBC [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > Beautiful friday evening here in the Rockies. How's that pooch Elmo? > Kathy |
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