Having a crappy day

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Just feeling tired and fed up with stuff, and I hope it is ok if I rant a bit. I was in to see my hematologist again today to get some other bloodwork done and, he has taken a bit of an interest in my thyroid problems, and has been asking me how I’m doing on levothyroxine. I told me that it’s about the same, just had my dose increased to 50 mcg (up from 25 – yippee I’m rocking now!!) and I don’t know yet how it’s going to go since it’s too soon for the new magic pill to work it’s wonders on me. I asked him what caused my thyroid to stall and if I have ever been tested for the antibodies. He says no, and no, he doesn’t believe that I have Hashimoto’s (sp?) because if I did, I would be going from hypo to hyper and that is not my problem. I’m sorry but that doesn’t even sound close to correct with everything I have been reading here. I know this is not his specialty but come on. With everything I have spouted at him so far, he knows I am leagues above the average bear on thyroid knowledge. So that is depressing. And then I was complaining about my weight to my sister who is a nurse and usually quite progressive thinking. She said, “only you know what to do to fix your weight.” And I lost it – I said, “My eating habits are phenomenal (almost!) probably much better than yours!! – it just sucks that my thyroid problem has not been very conducive to weight loss!” and she says “well, maybe you should get your dosage looked at” “I did, maybe it’s just the !@#$%^ synthroid!!” and she says “Carol, millions and millions of people have been treated successfully with synthroid” and I said “and millions and millions of people have not!”

A stupid and pointless argument of course, no one gets it (except you guysJ) And if all that was not enough, I now have to give myself Lovenox shots for a week to thin my blood. I have never given myself a shot and I am not pleased. *** ending the Carol-Rant***

Carol