I went to the doctor on Monday to talk about some of my thyroid symptoms. I have all of the normal symptoms of someone who is hypothyroid:
Exhausted, want to sleep all day
Insomnia
Can't lose weight
Body aches
Moodiness, depression
And so on
I know my body, and I absolutely know that all my symptoms are because of my thyroid.
My doctor had other ideas. If you could even call him a doctor, he was a Nurse Practitioner.
He told me that my TSH levels were normal. Ignoring that fact that they are in the high end of what he has decided is "normal." Apparently there is no way that any of my symptoms could be from my thyroid.
His diagnosis? Postpartum depression. I almost laughed out loud when he said that. My son is 26 months old, and I have postpartum depression? Are you serious? Come on!! Of course I get depressed sometimes. If you felt completely exhausted and wanted to sleep all day long, had no energy and couldn't lose weight, wouldn't that make you a little depressed occasionally? And I'm sorry, two years after your child is born, it can no longer be called postpartum. Maybe post-postpartum.
And when I told him about the research I have done on my condition, he gave me a long lecture about how I can't believe every thing I read on the internet and he went to college for many years blah blah blah. He said he didn't like it when his patients did that. Seriously? If I were a doctor, I would want my patients to research their conditions, not just blindly and ignorantly accept everything I say as law.
And he gave me 11 refills of Prozac. That seems overkill to me. He is going to be really pissed when I tell him that I didn't fill the prescription.
Had to bitch a bit!
Trina
Me!!
haha... I dunno
My son!
Future model/muscian
Me again
Not impressed? Well you should be!
3 comments:
Trina,
I have to be a 1 or 2 on the thyroid scale to feel good. And yes the prozac really does help. What a lot of people don't understand is that if everything is not in balance you don't feel right. That NP is an idiot. I can't find the paper the Dr. gave me but it has these three circles and she asked me to tell her what syptoms I had on it. I had them all! I started the prozac and felt better and lost weight. The first Dr. I went to didn't explain things to me like she did. It was an eye opener. I didn't want to take the prozac (and I didn't when he prescribed it) but when she explained why it would work it made sense and it did work. Sorry I am rambling. I will try to get that paper and email it to you. K
Take care and thanks for posting more poems they are awesome.
Trina.. I miss you!!!.. What are you up to?? Tell your hubby that I still have the evanessence CD he burned for me after we all went to that concert in HS!!... GOOD TIMES!!
-L
Trina, its miserable attempting to make yourself just feel "normal," and as you and I both used to be rather skinny, I can tell you that the feeling of extra weight can make depression feel heavy in one's chest. Try the prozac, just try it, sometimes it'll work to help balance the sytem. HOwever, I did email you an option about getting the thyroid medicine if you want it. I love and miss you always, your sister, ReAnne
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