Just a Can of Hairspray

So while I am still figuring out where all my images went (I think they are gone! Boo!), I figure I would write about my thyroid. It’s been such a drag lately. The supplemental therapy I was doing has somehow come to an end…it quit working. My hypo symptoms have come back, and while the iodine is supplying me with some energy, it comes in spurts. I went this past week to have my blood taken and the results confirmed that my thyroid is crazy! My doctor now has me on Armour, and I can’t wait to see the improvements.

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Mom and I recently took a much needed vacation and headed off to the most magical place on Earth…Disney World. We enjoyed our stay at Port Orleans-French Quarter. Here we are at the Magic Kingdom:

So it’s been almost 3 weeks since I started back on Iodoral. Am I feeling better? Sometimes. Do I have my energy back? Sometimes. Did I think it would take this long to feel better? No. I still get cold hands at work. They aren’t as dry, which is good. I need to start checking my temperature to monitor it. My weight has somewhat leveled off. Now to just peel this weight back off would be a good thing. I don’t tolerate carrying out 10 pounds very well. Both physically and mentally. I will probably go this week to have my blood taken and levels checked.

I have opted to working out earlier in the day, preferably at lunch, so that I’m not as tired. My eating habits are doing well. I’d just like to fit back into my work pants. For this week, that is all I ask. Maybe next week I’d like to drop down 15. We’ll see.

Well, the energy and feeling really good lasted a day or two. I am just plain tired today. I have such a hard time concentrating while sitting here at work. I just can’t seem to focus. My mind drifts and then my eyes want to shut. I am trying so hard to not rely on caffeine, but desperate times call for desperate messures. I am thinking of upping my Iodoral to an additional 4 tables. When I originally started last year, I did 100 mg, or 16 drops. Now that I’m on the tablets, 1 tablet = 2 drops. I use to feel great at 16 drops, so maybe I just need to increase back up and see what happens.

So  I am currently on day 2 (again) of 4 pills (50 mg) of Iodoral. For those that want to know what else I take with iodine: 

• 1 tsp Celtic Sea Salt
• Multivitamin
• B- Complex 100
• Riboflavin (200 mg)
• Niacin (1000 mg)
• Vitamin C (3000 mg)
• Iron 195 mg (Ferrous Sulfate - 975mg)
• Omega 3 (2800 mg)
• Selenium (200 mg)

I feel absolutely awesome today. Since Tuesday morning, I’ve dropped 3.4 pounds of water weight. YAY! My legs/feet don’t feel as water logged and my stomach is looking more normal. I have my energy back and just feel really good.

My thyroid has come crashing down. After months of being on iodine supplementation, I started cutting back. I was doing well for a while and then started to feel my symptoms again. So I started to increase iodine and ended up with tons of acne. After not being able to get it under control, I had my doctor prescribe Armour. Now I know that tons of people have done really well on it, but for me, I started to swell up like a ballon. I’ve put on about 7 pounds of water weight in the past week. Seeing as it’s summertime has not made me very happy. I pride myself on staying in shape and looking good. Being bloated did nothing but bring me down. So back into the doctor’s office I went yesterday. I am literally at wits end with this thyroid crap. Since my doctor was all booked up yesterday, I saw her nurse practioner. She asked me what I wanted to do in regards to my thyroid. HUH? I am there for you to tell me what to do. I am at the point where I need someone to tell me what to do. I can’t go on like this.

So I am back on iodine starting today. I’d figure I would track my thoughts and how I feel on here. Based on my previous posts, it didn’t take long to start feeling better. Lord knows I need every ounce of “feeling better” that is out there. Once you reach the bottom, the only other place to go is up, unless you just keep going down.

Apparently what I had to say yesterday wasn’t important as it was lost in the backup last night. So in honor of that, do me a favor and go to your local grocery store (preferably not Wal-Mart) and buy yourself a bag of Lays, Doritos, Cheetos, Sunchips, Tostitos, Flat Earth, Santitas, Fritos along with a bottle of  your favorite Pepsi product.

And enjoy. 

To Blackberry. Yes, I believe I’ll call her Blackberry. While I think she is the coolest car ever, she intimidates the crap out of me. The power and all the cool features have me a bit overwhelmed, but while I’ll never love her the way I loved my first Honda, she’ll find her way into my heart. I just know she will.

I loved you for 5.5 years and while I knew this day would somehow come, I am still sad to see you go. Nothing will ever replace the feeling of when I first bought you. Man, it was the best feeling in the whole world. To pull into the dealership and she was sitting there, waiting for me to drive her away. “Dad, look, there’s my car!” I remember saying to him. I was so excited. The sense of accomplishment. The feeling of pride. The feeling of working my tail off in college, and then waiting until just the right time to purchase her had finally arrived. I was so nervous at the thought of the commitment to buying her. 5 years is a long time. I was 22 and knew I’d be 27 when she’d be paid for. Back then I thought I’d NEVER live to see me being 27. So for whatever reason, me selling Blueberry, is sorta like I’m growing up. I’m getting older and this new car seems to represent it. And for that reason, it makes me sad.
I went through a lot of growing up driving that car. I laugh thinking of all the first dates she drove me to. All the boys she saw me with. We had some good times together. And we had some really rough times. Life changing moments. Nothing will ever take away those memories. I remember driving her off from the dealership and the song was on the radio, “I got me a brand new car, waiting in the driveway, shining like a bright new star, I’d been wishing on it everyday…”

I sold Blueberry on Monday to a family that my parents are friends with. It was a very easy sell and out of all selling situations, this one is the best. I hope the new driver will enjoy her just as much as I did. And I hope that he will love her, just as I did.

Thanks, Blueberry for all the fun, loyalty and memories that you gave me. While my new ride is much more ’sophisticated’, nothing will ever top the feeling that you gave me.