Posted by katia on November 3, 2003, at 15:01:22
In reply to Re: hypothyroid » katia, posted by BarbaraCat on November 3, 2003, at 10:08:35
Hi Barb,
god you're organized! you have a little notebook for notes! how intelligent! I have lost bits of scraps of pieces of whatever that important info written on them in a haste. I think I'll get an "info notebook"!
thanks for the enthusiasm regarding researching dep. and hypothy. the thing about that is, I've felt this way for quite a while, not just since Depakote. But I do have to say, since the weather made an uprupt change from INTENSELY HOT to now FRIGID, i've gotten dizzy, foggy, and cold. The change in weather also coincided with the ending of Depakote - so not sure if this is depression or something else. I'm just BLAH and dizzy and exhausetd. I'd like to get a more comprehensive test done to see if I'm hypothyroid. Does the changing of weather affect hypthyroid , i.e. make it worse at times? I have an appt. with my GP on Thursday over something else (that something else was going on three months ago - it's just this is the first appt. I could get). I'm under the state's healthcare which absolutely sucks. So I doubt (with my TSH levels "normal") he will be ready to refer me to an expensive endocrinologist even if he wants to. My pdoc just doesn't respond to this. I bring it up and he just doesn't say anything. All he said last time was "if we start you on Lithium, then we may need to do something about it". as tho' he didn't HEAR me when I say "I think I'm hypothyroid". I don't know what he could do. He almost acts like he simply not his ballgame and I need to take it elsewhere.
I need to call him and address it further and more directly because he certainly isn't on the ball about it, nor is he good with proactively addressing things that don't fall under "psychiatry". it's so frustrating.
BTW, I don't know what my TSH levels are. I'll ask my pdoc.
thanks.
katia
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