I’d Like To Thank My Thyroid
for waking me up tonight.
I finally got myself back on a normal sleep schedule. I’ve been going to bed around 10:30 or 11pm and waking up bright and early at 6:30am with Hubby. Doesn’t look like that’s going to be lasting though. I went to bed at 11pm last night dead tired. I tucked myself in, and I was out cold before Hubby came to bed 15 minutes later. I didn’t even flinch when he came to bed, and he said he even had to move me over to my side of the bed…I was stretched out in the middle.
Fast forward to 3:45am, and I sat up straight wide awake. Hubby felt me moving around and woke up, which is how I know when he came to bed. When I sat up I immediately noticed I had an awful cramp in my lower back…the kind you get if you sleep on a bad mattress in the same spot for 8 hours. I readjusted myself and tried to go back to sleep, but I just laid there wide awake.
Within a few minutes I started feeling that horrible lump in my throat that I absolutely dread. My thyroid is at it again. I woke Hubby up and had him feel my neck. Yep, he could feel the lump, too, so I jumped up and went to the mirror. It’s big enough tonight to be visible.
There won’t be any running to the doctor in the morning for blood work because that method hasn’t been working. My levels are back to normal before morning, so now I have to keep a journal of my symptoms, what time of the night the “thyroid attack” occurs, and I have to try to take photos if the lump is visible.
If we can setup a pattern then the endocrinologist can finally set me up with some medication to help it. The only problem is I don’t really have a pattern right now. This happens when it wants to, and it comes and goes. Sometimes I’ll have this happen once a week, then it’ll suddenly stop for months before happening once a week again.
I hate to say it, but sometimes I wish my thyroid would just decide to start working at only 60% or something just so it’s enough to show up on the tests. At least then I could get the medication I need to regulate it the way it needs to be.
One of these days, the docs might get us figured out and put us back to rights, eh?
You might want to check out this website: http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com
Yep Nancy, that is a great website. I had previously linked the same site in my post because it's extremely true. My sister's Hashi was uncontrolled for years because the doctor was going on her tests versus her symptoms, and now 2 doctors later I still can't find one that will treat me for my symptoms because I'm “not bad enough”. It's very frustrating.