Feeling incredibly stupid!

Mat48

I love all these tips - thank-you. Mine are all kept in my undie drawer with my pants. But there are so many boxes in there that it's hard to find my pants now :roll:

Just woken up after a late night waiting for a teen son to come home from a gig he was playing in.

My left wrist was causing jip in the early hours and i got up to find the other splint and feet were still crunchy, knees still hellish and left shoulder playing up so not an athlete yet! First thing I did when I managed to prize myself out of bed this morning was take the right dose of thyroxine yipee! Those two boxes (the correct ones this time after a month of having the wrong dose sitting there) are at eye level just below the self portrait of my grandmother - who I never met because she pricked herself with a darning needle when my dad was ten and died a horrible death of septicemia shortly before penicillin was invented- is gazing sideways at both boxes which are next to the digital radio alarm. I can't miss 'em that way but it's just a question of having the right boxes there to begin with! And my grandmother's death goes to show that these drugs are worth it in the end. :idea: Mat xx
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frogmorton

[right dose of thyroxine yipee! Those two boxes (the correct ones this time after a month of having the wrong dose sitting there) are at eye level just below the self portrait of my grandmother - who I never met

She's keeping an eye on YOU!

be careful now and hope it helps a bit at least.

Love

Toni xx

skezier

hi mat,

oh we have all done it......

i hope you soon feel a lot better and hope it all eases up a bit.

to make you know its the normal club....

i have pregabalin at 300 a hit and its quite able to play with your mind a bit....

i couldn't remember if i took then and thinking it couldn't hurt this much if i did.....

i took 100 more... just in case...

spent the night with a singing tree

i don't know what the answer is but don;t recommend 400 pregabs in one hit

really do hope you soon feel a lot better. cris x

Mat48

I'm an artist currently embroidering replica beach stones with shadows and also replica sweetie wrappers, old leaves and replicas of crushed rejection letters (the Art of Rejection in many parts) so spending the night with a singing tree sounds quite normal and rational to me!?

Nervous of even mentioning this but splints are off the wrists now and fingers almost bend knees can once again negotiate stairs with only the odd wince - might just be a good day for me of course but I can almost cross my fingers again now!

Thank-you all for keeping me smiling - keep strange stories riling in please it's fun reading them
Mat xx

wannabewriter

Mat,

It’s so easily done, don’t worry about it :-)

As for the thyroid thing, I spent YEARS telling them (and a MASSIVE weight gain) that I was hypothyroid, took ages to get tested. Now am just about on the right dose (bloods are normal, though I think my dosage could and should be upped a bit more) - but have fibromyalgia which means it can get really confusing on what’s a thyroid joint pain, what’s a fibro joint pain, and when it’s just my OA playing up!

Incidentally my rhuemy referred me to an endo recently, to check all my hormone levels, as he said joint pain + thyroid = typical and also very related to arthritises etc, and that the right amounts of levothyroxine could massively help with the fibromyalgia too. Didn’t hear for four weeks from blood tests – seems thyroid is about right, but they’ve been missing PCOS the past few years (hence not being able to lose weight) and that is going to mean MORE meds to take for ANOTHER hormone condition!! Let’s hope I don’t mess those ones up, eh...don’t really fancy growing a beard...!

I hope your right levels of meds are kicking in for you now; I literally feel your pain for this.

WW

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Mat48

It's so unbelievably tricky for them and for us working out what is what isn't it WW?! My GP said today that thyroid might explain the evening/ night swelling and pain but he didn't explain what me meant. What is PCOS? I have a really hairy chin these days and the beautician said it might be because of thyroid problems - luckily I'm very blond and just pluck them now but you have made me wonder?

Also I've managed to lose 2 stone but am now starving self in order to lose another 2 to get to my "normal" weight and BMI. It's almost impossible now and I've dropped gluten, dairy and sugar and caffeine from my diet - exercise despite sore feet and knees and still nothing seems to drop off?! Haven't even bothered mentioning this to GP because there's always so much to chat about re joints that I can't bring myself to discuss anything else with him! I really feel I'm eating like a sparrow and the content isn't dissimilar either! Maybe I should mention this to him next time but will have to let beard grow for that!!?

wannabewriter

Hi Mat,

Definitely, definitely mention it to the GP next time – I didn’t and kept boiling it down to the thyroid. You won’t get hairier with hypothyroidism – just with another hormone imbalance (and/or age!!). My face is a bit fuzzier on the sides, and also my chest in a non-gorilla way – like you, I’m very blond so luckily it doesn’t show, but I know it’s there. I also always feel majorly bloated, too, and had this down to the thyroid but apparently it probably is the PCOS.

PCOS is poly-cystic ovary syndrome, which is a misnomer as the ‘cysts’ are malformed/underdeveloped follicles on the ovaries which look like cysts but can really throw your hormones out of whack – and is apparently far more common for those of us with hypothyroidism (oh joy). Definitely ask about it, as I have been the same as you, eating nothing, exercising, but still maintaining this hideous weight! Hope to start metformin soon, which I;ve heard wonders about so fingers crossed it works for me eh!

You’re not alone, Mat,just remember that when you’re having a bad day :-) As Audrey Hepburn said: ‘For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others, for beautiful lips speak only kind words, and for poise remember that you never walk alone’ :-)

WW

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Mat48

That is really interesting WW. Would it PCOS show up on a uterine scan I wonder? I had one recently when I had a period out of the blue after a year and a half of none. She said everything looked completely normal and I imagine cysts would have shown up. I will ask the other woman GP who I like most - but feel duty bound to see my man GP about joints because he's the one rheumy writes to. He's not the type I could talk about a hairy chin to though!

So is your arther related entirely to the hypothyroidism do you know? My friend who is a GP said that if joint pain is the original symptom that highlights thyroid problems to begin with then it should right itself on the correct medication (amount of levothyroxine) but if not then it's probably not related but just made worse by not taking the right amount as I did. I feel less lethargic now but my knees are getting very sore again and right wrist is ongoing hell. Small of my back is rubbish now too but GP said neck and back don't go with arther usually so probably just incidental. It's all so confusing - and wickedly diverting too - I should be packing up my work!!! Mat x

wannabewriter

Hi Mat,

That sounds really likely if you’ve already had problems in that area (amenorrhea – me too for over two years eep!). Sometimes cysts don’t show up on a scan, but you can be classified if you have other symptoms and certain levels of various hormones – I’d ask about it, and see if you can at least get an entire hormone panel done on bloods, as that’s what diagnosed me in the end.

Well, I’ve had knee problems since I was 14, and thyroid problems showed around the age of 16 (full blown by 19 and was only diagnosed then). I’m now 24, and honestly cannot remember if the joint pain in other areas kicked in before or after the thyroid stuff; I’ve always been at some level of hurtiness! The pains do seem to alleviate when I’m on a higher dose of levothyroxine, but never go away completely: I don’t know if that’s because I’m not on the right levels of thyroxine or if it is because the fibro etc is playing up..

It’s always so confusing isn’t it?!

WW

Mat48

Well WW it seems I'm twice your age so it gets even more complicated when you take menopause into account! You have been unlucky having all this on your plate at 24 and I count my blessings that I didn't start having joint pains until last winter. They checked my thyroid levels several times to make sure and they were normal so my GP is reasonably certain that there's something else going on. Also I had a positive rheumatoid factor - have a family history of autoimmune conditions including RA and he doesn't think joint problems are either just down to menopause or thryoid but I'm not entirely sure myself.

Perhaps I'm just in denial now because there are so many coincidences - or perhaps hormonal fluctuations and hypothyroidism are in fact a trigger for rheumatic and arthritic conditions - I have read that several times so we will just have to wait and see. Flying off to the big grey smog soon clutching my levothyroxine boxes and my steroids and all the pain meds too! I think I'll add the PCOS thing into the equation when I get my bloods checked for inflammatory markers and hormone levels in November and see what it all adds up to :???: Cheers for now - Mat xx