Re: Re: Patience - I'm a tortoise, are you?

March 18, 2007

Jeff... PLEASE be patient.. there is a reason to wait that four to six

weeks between labs and adjustments.... your body has to acknowledge the

change in incoming hormone and to all it's adjusting and realignment

before you can get accurate labs and see how your body is responding...

If you do your increases too quickly, or too much at a time, it's really

hard on your body AND you risk missing your sweet spot and getting too

much hormone into your system and going hyper.. then you have to back off

the meds, wait for your body to use up the excess AND go hypo again, then

start working your dose back up again... it just ends up making it take

LONGER.

Remember the story of the tortoise and the hare.... who won the race???

Why did he win the race?

We have to be the tortoise and WIN!!!

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On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 04:40:15 -0000 " Jeff Wade " bennydabum2003@...>

writes:

> Thanks kats - Just whati needed to hear. So tired of being in the

> problem and not the solution. I'm going to follow your suggestion

> and

> also ask doc not to wait every 6 weeks to raise meds by.025 - it

> took

> forever after RI kicked in. It's easy for them to make it sound like

> it's no big deal - they're not living. Even with my new doc - I

> asked

> her to fill out a paper to say I was temp. disabled, just in case I

> had to get help again. Thank God that the past few weeks I've made

> just enough $ to pay a few bills. She asked me why I couldn't work

> and I told her the truth. I have a job that I work out of home, just

> making phone calls and most of the time even that's too much! She

> told me that's because my TSH result was high (number) and that it

> should be better in a couple of weeks. Well, it's been almost a month

> now, and other than a few fair days, I still feel like crap. The

> pressure of just surviving right now, can sometimes feel

> overwhelming. They already think I'm a nut job or hypochondriac at

> the clinic, so really, what do I have to lose? Had to persist to be

> seen for initial visit.

> Thanks for your help. Sounds like a simple solution and was

> probably staring me right in the face, but I'm not thinking very

> clearly at the present time. Better days are down the road.

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