My T4 level was seven, not four as I stated in my previous post. My mind is befuddled. Easy to make mistakes. I have so much T4 that it is clouding my mind!

I forgot to mention that I quit the bupropion in July after my last July post but the symptoms continued. That is what clued me in that something besides a bad reaction to a medication was going on. Especially when my feet and ankles swelled up and my heartrate at rest was 125.

That wasn’t the only thing that happened. One evening I noticed that
I had thousands of pepper sized floaters in my left eye. The next
morning I had large circular floaters in my field of vision along with
the pepper sized floaters and my vision was cloudy in that eye. My
vision is precious to me. This was terrifying. I called an eye doctor’s
office, outlined the situation, and begged for an immediate
appointment. Two eye doctors later in the same day I was relieved to
learn that my vision would recover within a few weeks when the floaters
werre absorbed. What had happened was that the vitreous, the interior
jelly part, of my eye had shrunk and pulled away from my retina,
causing bleeding within my eye. The blood created the floaters. This
pulling away can cause retinal detachment and blindness but so far my
retina is okay. The shrinking is more likely to happen with people who
are very nearsighted as I am as we get older.

I have felt as though I am falling apart. At 58 I am too young to
fall apart! Waiting for the appointment with the endocrinologist is so
hard. It’s a shock to me that when someone who has been heatlhy gets
around to needing medical help that medical help is not always
immediately available. Unless you need an ambulance and you’re about to
die. Then you can get into an emergency room. But if you are merely
seriously ill but not at death’s door, you might have to wait weeks or
months to see a doctor who will begin to treat you. In my case the
doctor is part of a highly regarded medical team but he is a forty five
minute drive away and I am lucky to have an appointment in September
with him. If I had tried to have an appointment with a doctor who was
closer, the wait might have been till October and certainly no earlier
than late September.

If falling apart happens when I am as young as 58, I hate to think
what condition I’ll be in if I make it to my eighties! In fact I don’t
see how I would make it as far as eighty. But thyroid stuff does
happen. I know a delightful eighty-something woman who told me that
doctors took out her thyroid years ago. She had had two nodules that
needed to be checked for cancer. They both turned out to be benign but
the surgeon took out her thyroid anyway. It"s scary to be involved with
the medical health system! So she takes Synthroid, a synthetic thyroid
hormone, and she’s in great shape. Life does go on without a thyroid
which is what my worst scenario would be.

Well, still sick, still waiting for September 7. Being sick sucks! Still sweaty, itchy, weak, and anxious.

Ginny