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!<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
That wasn’t the only thing that happened. One evening I noticed that
\nI had thousands of pepper sized floaters in my left eye. The next
\nmorning I had large circular floaters in my field of vision along with
\nthe pepper sized floaters and my vision was cloudy in that eye. My
\nvision is precious to me. This was terrifying. I called an eye doctor’s
\noffice, outlined the situation, and begged for an immediate
\nappointment. Two eye doctors later in the same day I was relieved to
\nlearn that my vision would recover within a few weeks when the floaters
\nwerre absorbed. What had happened was that the vitreous, the interior
\njelly part, of my eye had shrunk and pulled away from my retina,
\ncausing bleeding within my eye. The blood created the floaters. This
\npulling away can cause retinal detachment and blindness but so far my
\nretina is okay. The shrinking is more likely to happen with people who
\nare very nearsighted as I am as we get older.<\/p>\n
I have felt as though I am falling apart. At 58 I am too young to
\nfall apart! Waiting for the appointment with the endocrinologist is so
\nhard. It’s a shock to me that when someone who has been heatlhy gets
\naround to needing medical help that medical help is not always
\nimmediately available. Unless you need an ambulance and you’re about to
\ndie. Then you can get into an emergency room. But if you are merely
\nseriously ill but not at death’s door, you might have to wait weeks or
\nmonths to see a doctor who will begin to treat you. In my case the
\ndoctor is part of a highly regarded medical team but he is a forty five
\nminute drive away and I am lucky to have an appointment in September
\nwith him. If I had tried to have an appointment with a doctor who was
\ncloser, the wait might have been till October and certainly no earlier
\nthan late September.<\/p>\n
If falling apart happens when I am as young as 58, I hate to think
\nwhat condition I’ll be in if I make it to my eighties! In fact I don’t
\nsee how I would make it as far as eighty. But thyroid stuff does
\nhappen. I know a delightful eighty-something woman who told me that
\ndoctors took out her thyroid years ago. She had had two nodules that
\nneeded to be checked for cancer. They both turned out to be benign but
\nthe surgeon took out her thyroid anyway. It"s scary to be involved with
\nthe medical health system! So she takes Synthroid, a synthetic thyroid
\nhormone, and she’s in great shape. Life does go on without a thyroid
\nwhich is what my worst scenario would be.<\/p>\n
Well, still sick, still waiting for September 7. Being sick sucks! Still sweaty, itchy, weak, and anxious.<\/p>\n
Ginny<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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