Reminder: Create Calendar Timeline for Doctor

This is a reminder to myself that I have to create a timeline of my thyroid symptoms and my illness that hospitalized me before next Friday (when I see my doctor).  I have a few months of symptoms and stuff to present to him and I can't trust my hypothyroid memory with remembering everything, especially on the spot like that when you know there are other patients waiting and want to get everything out as fast as possible.  I want to make sure nothing is missed.

I wonder how long it will be before our health history is microchipped into us and can be updated online easily and perhaps Wi-Fi'd to our chip?  I like the idea of having everything easy access online but don't much care for the thought of a ls4278 scanner scanning me for information. That's a little too Star Trek for me.  I'd rather the scanners stay in retail.

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Blood Tests Tomorrow

Tomorrow morning I go for blood tests to check my thyroid, vitamin D3 and ferritin levels.  I know the Vitamin D and ferritin will still be low.  I am hoping my thyroid tests are low as well so he increases my medication.  He told me before he'd do it by symptom but when I called him six weeks ago miserable with a host of hypothyroid symptoms, he didn't do anything about it then.  Maybe he's going to need to see labs AND symptoms to raise my thyroid medication dosage.

I'll crawl off my uncomfortable mattress in the morning and hit the lab first thing. I need to remember NOT to take my thyroid medication in the morning so it doesn't skew any of the lab results.

*fingers crossed* that these labs get my compounded Armour medication dose increased!

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Belinda Carlisle Memoir About 30 Years of Cocaine

I know this isn't thyroid related but did you hear that Belinda Carlisle (that 80's girl group - Go Go's) has a memoir out that talks about her 30-year cocaine habit?  I remember some struggles with her weight over the years but I'd have thought her interests were more about weight loss pills that work. Never did I imagine a 30-year drug habit!

Most people know that celebrities aren't immune to drugs. In fact, they probably have them more readily available to them and certainly have the money to get what they need. I'd just never imagined "My Lips Are Sealed" meant hiding a 30-year drug habit!

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Nothing Positive for My Thyroid Issues

Well, getting Pelvic Inflammatory Disease certainly didn't help the way I've been feeling the last couple of months.  I have nothing positive to report on the thyroid front for me right now.  My weight isn't going down.  I was tired, cold, and had the memory of swiss cheese before I got sick.  Not being able to eat for a week and being so sick certainly didn't improve any of those problems (you'd think not having food for a week would help me lose weight but I still look like I need help with Lipofuze).

I have to go Friday to get blood drawn to check my thryoid, ferritin and Vitamin D3 levels for my next thyroid appointment a week from this Friday.  I know my ferritin and D3 levels will still be too low.  The antibiotics I've been on the last couple weeks make me so sick, I didn't add any supplements to the mix because the iron makes my stomach burn.  Who wants that when you're already trying to hold your meals down with mind over matter already?

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I Had Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

I said before I'd tell more about my illness later. Well, it's later.

I was hospitalized due to Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (due to bacterial vaginosis...NOT an STD which the doctors would not believe until the cultures came back proving neither myself nor my husband cheated on each other and gave each other a disease!) after an ER visit had me admitted for fear of abcess and the need for surgery. I was really sick with high fever and extreme pain. They gave me morphine in the ER for pain, then dilaudid (I think that's how it's spelled) once admitted, then Percocet as the pain went down. Apparently, the flu I thought I had with fever for four days a few weeks ago was the start of the infection raging through my reproductive organs until they were screaming at me to get to the hospital.

Unfortunately, the antibiotics (Gentamicin and Clindamycin) they had me on had such bad side effects (dizziness, nausea, ear pain and hallucinations) that I was happy to get off them after 2-1/2 days when I got sent home. Those side effects lingered for several days after but they eventually worked their way out of my system thankfully.  I think it was the Gentamicin that did all that to me. The faces flying at me in my head were bad enough (and the evil grins some of the faces gave me were downright scary) but when the Virgin Mary statue outside my hospital window turned and looked at me several times, I rang for the nurse to get me off the medications!

The I.V. fluids had me so bloated I looked like I needed to find the best weight loss pills but it all came off within the first week of being home thankfully.

I'm still on antibiotics and the pain comes and goes still.  My thyroid meds got off track a bit while I was really sick but I'm trying to take them on schedule now around my antibiotics.

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