Where I'm At - July 2008 ...... Half-Dead

Maybe I'm not half-dead... but I sure feel like it.

The exhaustion is overwhelming, a trip to the grocery store and a load or two of laundry will wipe me out. The bigger projects get put off over and over again. My husband and I took a short 4 day vacation to Branson a couple weeks ago... a little shopping, saw some shows, toured a museum. More than I usually do, but not at all what should have been too much for a 40+ woman... but I felt incredible exhaustion the entire next week to the point that I could barely function. I think this may be more an adrenal problem than a thyroid-related one... but I am already on 40 mg of Hydrocortisone.. so I don't know. 40 mg is about the highest dose that someone with adrenal fatigue should take. For some reason I was feeling really good around the 11th of June... I had just raised the Synthroid.. was hoping finally to get some relief from the hypo symptoms. For me it seems the stresses of planning a vacation and then over-doing it gave me a setback.

The Growth Hormone stim test hasn't happened. After calling several labs and hospitals in my area, I cannot find one that can do this test. I have more hospitals to call, but am not feeling optimistic.

The diet was a bust too. I'm just full of doom and gloom today, eh? I did lose some weight initially, but the weight started back up when I lowered the Synthroid and even though I am back up to the dose I was while losing weight.. the weight isn't budging this time. I've pretty much given up on slimming down at this point.

Lydia (poster child for the Couch Potato)