Stop the madness!

I'm feeling pretty lucky.  It's been almost 2 weeks since I adjusted the thyroid medications (see last post) and I'm continuing to feel pretty good.  I still have some odd complaints, aches in my hip and back and my hands are usually still achey in the mornings but I'm sleeping really well and waking up …

Make hay while the sun shines

I've been writing mostly in a separate diary recently, I'm trying to pour everything out.  It works sometimes to keep me writing when I don't feel like pouring it all out into the world. I've noticed I write a lot about 'I' and 'me'.  Understandable I suppose but I'm trying to find new ways to …

Things I will do once I’m better

Im my collating past results and re-reading posts, so far it’s been all downhill… Here I am 8 months in, almost 2 years ago, with a list of things I hope to do when I’m better and I now can, although I’m not completely better. This is encouraging.

What's wrong with me?

It’s felt like a very long time, this last 8 months and I know (or hope) that one day this too, will have passed and we can all look back with ‘gosh, remember that year I was so sick?’.  Fingers crossed!

When I’m all fixed I will:

Take my daughter to the zoo to pat the quokkas

Go out for dinner with adults, at night time!

Visit my friends for coffee

Walk to work and back (it’s only 10 minutes)

Clean my house myself

Walk to the beach with my daughter

Its not a massive list of requests!  A quite reasonable one I think, it’s not like I’m a professional dancer and want to begin training daily.  Sometimes I wonder how sick I am below the surface, particularly when I have a reaction like the last few days to some vacuuming and tidying.  My life and expectations have been slowly lowering…

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Thyroid is the word…

Yesterday was spent just hanging with my 5 yr old.  I am often so flat these days that it just feels like the best thing to do is to stay home and find stuff to do here.  She seems to enjoy it, but I worry about when she’s older, will I have kicked this problem by …

Taking note of hair loss (& everything!)

This week the hairdresser noticed how much thinner my hair is and showed me around the back where it's breaking away at the ends.  I've been noticing it for a while now but it seems really easy to ignore things you hope will improve and not notice how long its been going on.  Like my neighbour, …

Ok so it’s clear now

The doctor has diagnosed me as hypothyroid again.  I've been noticing all the symptoms individually and I'm not going to beat myself up but they're damn obvious!  So I'm writing them below to remind myself and then in the future I hope I realise it sooner because the doc has upped my T3 and hopefully that will …

Reminders

It's not been an easy week, for some reason.  I've needed long naps a couple of times ( yes I know, after mentioning I didn't need them anymore). Sometimes it's hard to work out where to place the blame.  The 5 year old still comes in most nights and interrupts my sleep, sometimes she sleeps well …

Is it ok?

I haven't posted in 3 months and that's a shame because now I can't easily look back and recognise what's been going on.  The doctor upped one of my medications back at the end of January and suggested an appointment for June, giving me the impression it was all going to get better.  I now …

This is a big, fat drag!

It's a little bit funny...all these feelings inside... Ok so I've borrowed that from the start of an Elton John song.  I've woken up early this morning (5:37am) dead tired, sore neck still - it's been almost 3 months now - and wondered to myself where to from here? Just over 2 years ago, I got …

The Google Cycle

What is it about the New Year that gets you looking into new paths and options?  The promise of a simple date change bringing new possibilities, fresh pathways and better results? I woke this morning with a really sore neck.  It's been like this for about a month now I think.  I've been ignoring it, assuming …