#thyroid stuff

[noahs-kayak]

A fascinating experience

[headspacedad]

note to self: thyroid edition

so every now and then my thyroid flips over to hyper again and I have to remedicate and lower my dosage.  Things I really should notice to tip me off and never do so I’m going to write them down in case 1. they help anyone else and 2. I actually pay attention next time.  Warning: I’m going to talk about psychical stuff and it might be TMI so avert your eyes.

1. super long growing strong nails.  I spend two to three weeks amazed at how nice my normally peeling short nails suddenly look and How Damn Good My Hands Look with nice long nails before another symptom tips me off and I realize ‘oh - riiiiiihgt

2. dry skin.  My face is always the first to go and a week or two later I start to notice it in my legs.  But since I live in Florida with a sometimes fickle dry season I just associate it with the drier weather and slather on the facial cream until my legs start to tip me off it might be more. 

3. boring ass dreams.  Like I seriously wasted all my precious dreamtime last night in a parking lot looking for a place to put away my shopping cart.  The night before I was out on a fabulous date - and ended up spending the entire dream helping this old B&B owner clean out his basement.  I could have been a dragon or something instead but nooo I spent the night carefully picking up loose bolts off a dusty bookcase

4. the gagging kicks back in.  Anything that gets me the least bit excited, stressed or nervous (and by excited I mean ‘makes me move even the slightest bit in a sudden way I wasn’t planning’) seems to make me end up gagging.  Not coughing.  Its just in my throat and I have to bite back gagging when I go to hug my nephew because he’s suddenly leaving the room

5. muscle strength drops to below nil on the ‘I’ve have a week long bad fever’ level if I exert past what I’m used to.  Since I don’t usually exert past what I’m used to this only tips me off if I’m suddenly pelting down the street (potentially also gagging) or spinning one of those merry go round things for kids for an unexpectedly long time.  Not a Reliable Indicator for its lack of showing up.

6.  I might potentially write more and easier.  Not sure if this is a side effect or unrelated because I haven’t paid attention before.

7.  jag on worries.  Something that would worry me usually and be able to be set aside ends up playing in loop in my head until it gets way bigger than it should and my brain keeps coming back to it even when I sidetrack it with distractions.  Worries seem more important than they are and eat up more brain time than they should.

8.  fuck sleep.  Brain runs too fast to let me shut things off for the night.  Not with actual thoughts because there’s often nothing going on, just a vague busy feeling like there’s a lot going on that isn’t.  This is usually what tips me off because I am a very expert sleeper.

9. period schedule might change - still testing this one out and sweat smell might change or that might have been the medicine overload in my system bleeding out.  Jury’s out on whether these two are actually tied in or not.

10. potential sleep cycle break.  Instead of the usual six hours, I go for four, putz around in the dark for three or four hours and then light doze/semi-lucid dream it for another hour or so.  Not sure if this is related either since I didn’t pay attention last time (but I’m kind of digging it)

anyway I’ll add more if I come up with them (or anyone with thyroid issues is free to add more as well).  Don’t worry, this is normal since my lizard body needs adjusted medication depending on the cold or heat.  Its just a matter of catching it when it starts to swing so I can pick up my other dosage instead of puttering along blithely for weeks before I finally realize what my body is doing.

[thiefofstars]

[annegris]

My T3 and T4 levels are high and yet all those nice jeans I bought several years ago don't fit because I'm bigger than I used to be. I find it offending.

[polyamoryprincess]

I literally got stabbed in the throat today.