recently, i’ve had testing done on my physical body. vials of blood were taken, lots of saliva collected into another vial in order to test my hormones. as if the blood and saliva were not enough, they took some urine from me too.
(i know, some could have done without that extra bit there, but i’m thorough when i want/need to be.)
so far, i have the thyroid problem of hypo, not hyper. there is a difference and usually it’s the skinny people (with bugged eyes) that have the hyper. (boohag added the bugged eyes part so forever i will be searching out skinny people with bugged eyes but not for the same reasons that i did 20 years ago.)
in simpler terms, fat people have HYPO and skinny people have HYPER. i must note that angel sis has been on the thin side of the line for her entire life and she has HYPO. i’m surprised you could even see her before she was medicated. our mom has the hypo too.
we have NO IDEA what the hell magical has, that girl is off the rails. always has been, always will be i reckon.
as many of you know, i’m no doctor, but i’m going to give you a short and sweet piglet interpretation of what a malfunctioning thyroid is like.
prolonged stress causes your adrenals to go whack-a-doo. you find yourself trembling and shaking like a crack head pretty easily (say when you are at the bob’s big burger drive thru and they tell you to pull up b/c your order will take a little longer). shortly after the “fit” you have to lay down and sleep. some people actually faint or pass out. depression, fuzzy thinking, and forgetfulness are all symptoms too. (pretty much anything that’s been wrong with me for the past three years, i’m blaming it on my thyroid.)
my chiropractor has been treating my adrenals for about three years, off and on (more on than off). in addition, i’ve suffered with migraines for most of my entire life. i’ve had lots of testing, different prescriptions (all made me sick-except one-relpax), my chiropractor got to the SOURCE of my migraines and if i am seeing him regularly, he keeps those at bay. that alone makes me indebted to him for life.
while at the dentist’s office recently, i just about jumped OUT of my own skin after the shot of novocaine. over the last couple of years, i’ve noticed the novocaine not liking me too much. my dentist went into the an explanation about adrenals and the effects, etc. (i love when doctors go into the explanation b/c medical/scientific stuff has always fascinated me.)
i began to wonder if this is why i can no longer drink coffee like i used to. the husband and i would share two pots o’ coffee a day. swear. (1/2 caf, 1/2 decaf). over the past two years i guess, it makes me jumpy. i hate jumpy.
my brain was able to take that information from the dentist, combine it with the my beloved chiropractor’s information and then it landed on the hormone seminar that i attended a couple of month’s back. that’s what i like to call FULL CIRCLE.
turns out your hormones can get all tangled up, certain organs will over function due to the under functioning ones, and then you just get a big old mess on your hands. the short of it, prolonged stress can kill you.
currently, my blood (FOUR VIALS!) are being tested for certain food allergies (i know i have some) and my saliva vial (took about an hour to fill it up) to test my hormones to get a more accurate reading on those. typically, my body is healthy and very strong. as of late, not so much. after they took the blood from me, i was dizzy well into the evening.
two new medications have been added so far. armour thyroid, and chantix.
the chantix is for the quitting of smoking. this quitting smoking can all be blamed on my son, he’s been asking me ever since i told him that i spoke about it with my gyn on my last check up, last year. i’ve been taking the chantix for about three weeks now and so far all i’ve noticed is that cigarettes make me feel sickly (kind of like they did when i first began to smoke–but since i’m not quitter, i just kept at it until i stopped getting sick.)
the chantix has some weird side effects similar to those of narcolepsy and general malaise. the armour thyroid stuff, can’t even tell it’s there so far, maybe that’s a good sign.
i’m not sure how to end this in my typical brilliant way, so i’m just going to say bye for now.
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