Guest guest Posted July 1, 2004 Report Share Posted July 1, 2004 i feel ssso bad that you have to put up with that - is there any way to get him to understand whats going on with you? i can relate to the heat intolerance - i cannot go outside its so bad here -- but what confuses me is i always read that hypoT's are cold intolerant -- i wish i could get cold. visit our website www.geocities.com/tanyarn96/countryside.html www.poncetihomes.com -- Re: caring You know what you need to do... tell the others to fly a kit if they dont' understand. You need to take care of your body, get it what it needs to be healthy again. Geez.. this gets to be such a sore spot with me.. folks tell you to push yourself.. and sometimes you do... but they are not the ones in your shoes for the days, weeks, months it takes to recover from that day. My great fiasco was when by dad was reroofing the house. He decided that I could help haul the old shingles to the dumpster... It was horribly hot out and I dont' take heat well at all. After the first two trips I gave up coming in the house, where it was cool, for the 15 minute it took to fill the catch tarp as he tore shingles from the roof and would just perch my butt on the tire of the trailer that was sitting in the yard. As the day wore on the shade left that spot and it was in full sun... By mid afternoon I was limping badly AND the air cushions in the ONLY shoes that I own were punched full of holes because of walking on all the nails in the yard. (So now I only wear those shoes when I have to leave the house, I even walk out in the snow to get the mail barefoot cause the shoes are so out of balance that they hurt my legs and back to wear.) I made a comment that I was hurting that I shouldn't be doing this S***. I was told everyone gets sore, I'm not special. After the last load that night I went inside and sat in this chair... I didn't leave it for three days. I had nothing to drink and nothing to eat for that whole time. Not only did I not want to walk to get something, I did not want to walk to the bathroom. AND NO ONE CARED OR NOTICED!!!! This spring, dear daddy decided that it would be a good idea to rake the yard. I pulled a mucscle in mmuscle off all places. I had to stop exercising. It didn't matter if I sat, stood, walked or layed down the thing just throbbed. And sitting, it was actually swollen, it made me sit funny and that messed up my back. The next week he decided it was a good idea for me to go out back and yank shingles out of the pile on that trailer (they've been sitting out there for almost two years) and tear them up into peices and spieceshem in the trash. I did that every Thursday for three weeks. Reinjuring that pulled butt muscle and messing up my back some more. I finally blew my stack and told him I couldn't do that anymore it was hurting me and I wasn't healing... That was a month ago. You know what my sovenier is fromsouvenirveliness? I've got a blood clot in my left calf! But there is nothing wrong with me. I'm just lazy. I make this all up to get out of work. He started giving me shit cause I stopped losing weight. I gave him the dirtiest look for that. I was losing weight just great... until I had to stop exercising... Now I can't cause I'm afraid of breaking the clot loose. I have to wait for it to dissolve.... What a great summer I'm gonna have. All the work I did to get to walking, the plans I had to work on walking down to the new river park... and I don't dare do it... mild walking is good... but over exersion could breakexertiont loose... The leg is bright, red like a sun burn, from about four inches below my knee to just above the ankle bone. It hurts like a burn most of the time and is hot to the touch.. the rest of the time is a mix of throbbing and stabbing pains (I've read that that is good) I've got the swelling down from the edema.. that got so bad my left leg was twice the size of my right. Oh.. the leg that is messed up right now.. is on the same side as that pulled butt muscle... Coincidence, right? I wonder... if I have a heart attack or stroke because of this, is he still gonna say that I only made it up? You know what dear daddy did last week? He cleaned off the trailer himself in less than an hour, hauling it away... yet he torchered me with it for atorturedst to be a jerk. It just sucks when the people around you don't give a crap. Oh.. since I get my meds on my own.. since I don't see a doc to get them, since they come in the mail... they aren't meds.. I just take vitamins and stuff and want folks to think I'm taking meds. That's how I make them feel sorry for me. Yeah, I wish that's what I did, I could get tired of it and quit and start having a real life again! Topper () * who slept less than 4 hours last night cuase of the heat and facing the ucause80s today and dreading it cause he won't turn on the AC* On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 01:51:07 -0500 (Central Standard Time) "" writes: you know that is horrible how your family and friends have been and i can relate - even though my husband is good (except for the verbal abuse) and dddoes EVERYTHING for me he can't really relate b/c he has never been sick or been in the hospital - being a nurse i've taught him to take my vitals and he knows i know what i'm talking about and not justing being lazy and staying in bed BUT.....i have no family of my own and my MIL and his grandma are the only family i'm around - they live right behind us and they do not understand or sympathise -- grandma is 92 and in better shape than me - she thinks i'm just lazy - their way of thinking is push yourself to get up and go and you will feel better --- i believe what my body tells me and if that is to stay in bed and sleep thats what i do. i got sso mad the sat b4 fathers day i did force myself to get up that morning and take my 4 yr old daughter sshopping to get her dad a present and when i came back to leave it at my MIL's grandma was there and when i got out of the car she was standing there like a fool laughing and clapping and when i asked her what she was doing she said "thats right, thats what you have to do - move around and you'll get better" -- i basically yelled at her that i felt like s*** and was going back to bed when i got home and if it wasn't for getting my daughter something for her dad i wouldn't be out of bed - i don't even really drive anymore because of the dizzy spells and forgetting where i'm going. and they ask me everyday i see them how i'm doing but they don't really want to hear it ya know - when i tell the truth they have this stupid face. and my MIL is hypothyroid and has never had a problem or a dose change and she thinks everyone is the same as her and if not you are causing it yourself or milking it and just being lazy. they make me so mad its not even funny. i really feel for tthose of you who don't have a support person. i also have a friend that lives down the street and she has fibromyalgia and depression and a few other things and she understands completely what i'm going through and its nice ttto have a person like that - not that you wish illness on somebody but thats what makes these groups so great b/c we walk in the same shoes - some in better shape than others but the same never the less..... i'm off to bed - i'm dozing off as i write tthis (LOL) visit our website www.geocities.com/tanyarn96/countryside.html www.poncetihomes.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 3, 2004 Report Share Posted July 3, 2004 jan, i try to just ignore them but it isn't easy and at the end of the year we are moving away from them so that will be nice. visit our website www.geocities.com/tanyarn96/countryside.html www.poncetihomes.com --*/ Re: levels results! question> > Good plan, to have someone aware of what is going on with you.. and > bravo to your hubby for caring... Many of us have some family members > that don't care... My family falls into that category. They know where > my sheets are... but as far as how I'm doing... don't care... Cause > there's nothing wrong with me.... the docs just gave me a little pill > one day, I didn't even have to be in the hospital.> > I just milk it all as an excuse.> > Topper ()> > On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 03:10:57 -0500 (Central Standard Time) "" > > writes:> I know there have been several times when i should have gone to the > hospital but like you said i diddn't feel like it and was very passive > (totally unlike me) and i just stayed in bed and my husband should > have known to make me go when he couldn't get a blood pressure - i > will inform him - my TSH was 72 at the time i'm thinking of. right now > i'm very close to bedridden - i sleep 18 hours a day easy unless he > wakes me up a lot and can't watch the baby.> i do have a typed sheet like you are talking about with meds - dr's - > symptoms etc - i keep it in my suitcase of meds and he knows to grab > that -- i believe its a great idea for ppl to have this info. i also > tell hubby if i'm feeling a change and what it is and when i've taken > something so he can accurately pass on that info to the docs -- even > if its middle of the night i wake him to tell him.> > > > visit our website> www.geocities.com/tanyarn96/countryside.html > <http://www.geocities.com/tanyarn96/countryside.html> > www.poncetihomes.com > <http://www.poncetihomes.com/> > > > writes:> topper - you menttioned that wendy was in the hospital b4 for non > treatment of hypo related symptoms - this may help some ppl b/c i know > myself when my TSH was 72 i barely got out of bed and my husband > wasn't able to get a blood pressure reading on me - he said i should > probably get up and walk around for circulation but i didn't have the > strength to get up and just stayed in bed --- makes me wonder at what > point should you go to the hospital and with what symptoms. i was > under a doc's care but this is all part of my fluctuation.> > > visit our website> www.geocities.com/tanyarn96/countryside.html > <http://www.geocities.com/tanyarn96/countryside.html> > www.poncetihomes.com > <http://www.poncetihomes.com/> > > >> > >>> >> >>> >> >> > >>> * Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 5, 2004 Report Share Posted July 5, 2004 The symptoms I'm having could be either Phlebitis or Lymph edema.. and I have been going over it... The stuff that I've been doing with it the last few days has helped immensely. All the soft edema is pretty much gone now.. just down to the pitting edema. It's still very tender and still has a fever, which suggests infection, so more like lymph, I think... As far as emergency room... not with the hospital out here... I've had too many go arounds with them.. would you believe they went after my dad for payment when I was in a truck rollover at work? It was turned in as worker's comp, accident in company vehicle while on a route.. and when the paper work didn't go through quickly enough they showed up at my dad's door... I'd not been living here for years!!! Another time they sent a collection agency after me for emergency room charges for a trip that I'd made after the triage nurse for my insurance carrier TOLD me to go in and even had called ahead to give them all my info so that I didn't have to deal with it when I got there! I won't even go into what they did to my mom, she's dead now.... I'll be careful and take care of it myself.. I do better on my own and with a LOT less stress... I can see why you're frustrated with your daughter living at home.... You'd love having me.... I sleep in the guest room and all my computer equipment and such is set up in dad's home office - He wasn't using it anymore, it was turning into a junk room. He'd taken his own computer and set it up on this neat rolling cart he made so that he could move it out into the kitchen (THE place to be in this house). He didn't like being secluded way back here when he was on the computer.. so now he's out in front of the french doors... with TV and phone and all the conveniences.... Any, I have the two rooms and all my stuff stays in here with me... I take care of all my own cooking and laundry and clean up... Never have anyone over. They play louder music and tv than I do. I tend to wash any dishes that are in the kitchen when I do mine... do odd chores.... most of the time they don't even know I'm here.. In fact.. If I leave the house I'm supposed to leave a note.. and when I'm not in the office, when I'm in the bedroom, I have to leave the office door cracked open so that they know I'm in the bedroom. Dad likes the house really warm, year round, so the windows in the bedroom are open all the time and the heat register is closed.. so the bedroom is cool enough for me to sleep.. that's why the bedroom door stays closed... The office warms up when the door is cracked.. but I'm awake and dressed so it's safe, in the winter, to open windows wide when I get in here in the morning to cool it quick. No danger of falling asleep with an open window and 20 below outside!!! I only use the kitchen and laundry when no one is home, so I'm really never in the way... And, of course, I'm a built in house sitter when they go on vacation... 2 weeks this summer... and 2 months over the winter..... Oh.. I'm pretty popular when I'm baking, too!!! heheheh everyone has their favs... Just did 3 dozen of the banana oatmeal cupcakes on Friday... They've helped all of us! I'd still rather be on my own... Topper () On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 13:54:19 -0500 " " writes: Topper!!! That sounds like phlebitis, , and you seriously need to go to the emergency room, not tomorrow, but NOW!!! I know, no money, but they'd better not turn you down, or they'd be facing a suit. Remember where you came from, and don't let your folks or anyone else discourage you. My kids don't get it either, and they are all adults, two of the girls hypothyroid. Neither one of them feels good, don't believe any of this stuff, think that I've just found "something interesting to do". Yeh, right. If they want to stay in $ynthroid land, then I say, let them, after some of the crap they've said. I have to just ignore it all, and the real problem with them, I think, is that I'm not all healthy and available to THEM, when they decide they want to come whining about something. Well, one thing about relieving stress and having caller id, is that I don't HAVE to answer my phone, when it gets like this. Actually, if I want to, I CAN disappear. These kids are all over the age of 25 and on up to almost 35. I love my children, but adult children can be as controlling as an abusive husband, when they want to be, especially these 6. I think that my oldest daughter is fixing to move out, not forced, but she doesn't like the new rules that I've laid down in my household. (I'm not talking about your situation Topper, I'm talking about the way MINE is, on this one). There is crap strung from one end of the house to the other, and I can't find my stuff, unless I hide it in my room in the closet. If she feels like dumping her clothes, hair items, papers, food, and whatever in the living room, she does. I finally started getting hard here because I can't cope with it any more. My home has got to be a clean haven. I think she's depressed and energyless because of thyroid disease, and yes, she is a hard worker outside of the home, but she scoffs at my knowledge on thyroid disease and thinks it's all silly, and it's still all making me crazy. She lets her 3 yr old walk all over the house with food and such, and gets angry when I have anything to say about it. I have compassion for my children, but I can't stand THIS $**T any more, so I think there has got to be a drastic change. She is 34 yrs old. If I thought that she would listen to me on what's going to make her better, I would bring it up again, for the 50th time, but it looks like this is going to be a matter of my psyche or hers. I did royal battle with children since I was 18 yrs old, and I am now almost 53. I'm tired, darn it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 6, 2004 Report Share Posted July 6, 2004 That is great! I live away from my husband's family and it is awesome. Also, he has stopped talking to his father for good, and even the family we talk to like his and my mom, it is limited contact. We are happier and healthier. Jan wrote: > jan, > i try to just ignore them but it isn't easy and at the end of the year > we are moving away from them so that will be nice. > > > visit our website > www.geocities.com/tanyarn96/countryside.html > <http://www.geocities.com/tanyarn96/countryside.html> > www.poncetihomes.com > <http://www.poncetihomes.com/> > > /--*/ Re: levels results! question > > > > Good plan, to have someone aware of what is going on with you.. and > > bravo to your hubby for caring... Many of us have some family members > > that don't care... My family falls into that category. They know where > > my sheets are... but as far as how I'm doing... don't care... Cause > > there's nothing wrong with me.... the docs just gave me a little pill > > one day, I didn't even have to be in the hospital. > > > > I just milk it all as an excuse. > > > > Topper () > > > > On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 03:10:57 -0500 (Central Standard Time) " " > > > writes: > > I know there have been several times when i should have gone to the > > hospital but like you s > > > > > > > * Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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