[healthwork] nope, fuck this

[kaberett]

I talked recently about decreasing my levothyroxine dosage. Since I made that post, my digestive system has really unambiguously started slowing down again, the nosebleeds have gone from "multiple dried clots when I blow my nose" to "nontrivial quantities of fresh blood when I blow my nose", my sleep needs have continued increasing markedly, and my productivity has absolutely tanked because I just do. not. have. the. focus. despite clear straightforward next steps. (Executive dysfunction is normal for me! Spending the better part of a week failing to open a damn PDF I know the location of is... not.)

I... am unlikely to make it back in to see my preferred local GP until, honestly, early March at this point. I could book a phone appointment with preferred-out-of-area well-trained GP (who first suggested hypothyroidism), but it would be a bit unfair to dump this on him when he hasn't seen the most recent blood results and I have no straightforward way to get them to him.

So I... think what I do is put myself back up to 75mg daily (from 75/50 alternating), watch the symptoms subside, and then go park myself back in a GP's office and say "so I've done this, and you're not going to get me to stop without an endocrinology referral."

I am so fucking bored of this.

Comments

[davidgillon]

For pure GP management* purposes, any utility in trying 2 days 75/75 to one day 75/50?

*Okay, there's a little bit of 'for science!' in there, but I'm a bit hesitant to blow that trumpet when talking about someone else's health.

[kaberett]

Unfortunately not -- thyroid is one of the things that responds reaaaaaaaaaally quite slowly to change, such that "three weeks at the lower dose, three weeks at the higher dose" is the only really sensible way to run this. It's kinda like most SSRIs in that respect, just... with fewer side-effects.