hi ladies
thank you for your responses!
I haven't posted because I don't have anything new to ad. The doctor at the walk in clinic doesn't want to treat the condition now, wants me to see the endocronologist urgently for which he sent a request a little over two days ago, but I haven't heard from the endocronologist office yet, so here I am just waiting.
I haven't had a family doctor for over four months, since I rellocated from Vancouver to Victoria, BC, hence all the delays and problems. I had some blood work done in January, another doctor at another walk in clinic said that the results were fine, furthermore this time, they got the blood results as well (they were sent to two walk in clinics by the lab), and the receptionist told me that the results went into my file and that there was 'no reason for concern' so that I didn't need to come to see the doctor. However, the other walk in clinic phoned me back and told me that I did need to come and see the doctor to discuss the results. Good that I went to the two clinics, had I stayed with the first one only, I wouldn't even have the referral to the endocronologist. I find it hard to believe that the clinic disregarded my blood work, even when one of the thyroid hormone results was totally off the charts.
I have at times been very hungry. But not so at the moment. I think that now the thyroid is so disfunctional that I have gone to this strange mode: I don't feel hungry, I don't feel sleepy and only sleep just a few hours a night maybe 5 or so, it's all kinda strange.
Now what Angie is saying about not eating the first meal of the day until 2pm, I find this very familiar, because I don't feel hungry until early afternoon, which means that the very most of the time I do not eat breakfast. I think I haven't eaten breakfast in years, with a few exceptions here and there, but not many.
However I do tend to get very hungry in the evening, and this can go on for hours, like I will eat, and then go eat something else. Strage. It's not the TV, I don't have a habit of eating in front of the TV, it's just something that comes over me in the evening and I am like those monsters in 'I am legend' like the girls said in the movie 'they are always biting', in the same way I am just wanting to chew on food all evening.
But this is not happening right now, and I think it is because one of the hormones is so exceedingly high and must be causing this.
Yesterday I was talking to an acquaintance who sells natural supplements and she was telling me that there is some natural stuff that I can take instead of the sythetic stuff I am on now. I asked her to get me some information about it which I hope she will. She is hypo, her husband is hyper, and both have been on natural thyroid remedies that they tell me has work very well for them. And she is only five pounds overweight which is amazing, I mean I would be so happy with just five pounds to go, and they are in their early sixties, so quite an accomplishment.
I don't know that I will try natural remedies just yet. I want to see the specialist first. I like alternative medicine to some degree, it has helped me with some issues. But once I tried St John's Wort for depression and it didn't help me at all, so I am skeptical that natural remedies work a 100%. I think with thyroid and depression, I do need something that I am certain is going to help. Although right now I only have to worry about the thyroid, as depression is not an issue right at this point in time, thank God, although this can change at the drop of a hut, as it did for me many times before in the past. I do wish I could take something to sleep a little more, I don't think I am getting enough hours sleep, particularly in comparison to how much I used to sleep up until recent times. But I am not planning on trying anything at the moment, I will just have to live with less sleep.
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