Yay
Sunday, January 29, 2012 at 9:54PM So, after years of asking doctors, “Are you sure it’s not my thyroid?” and months after one of them finally doing the correct test, I have a diagnosis: Hashimoto’s.
I know, I’m totally fucking shocked too. I only had every symptom in the list and an entire lifetime of my mother telling me to get checked for it, because she’s had it since her 2nd pregnancy and it’s hereditary. Who would have guessed?
I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand, fer fuck’s sake, finally, I might start feeling better.
On the other hand, I’m going to be on medication for the rest of my life. This lack of pro-active diagnosis has probably totally screwed my chances of ever conceiving a second child. Do you really have to wait until my thyroid is completely destroyed by my own body before you can do anything about it?
I’m kind of bitter right now.
But I’m looking forward to being able to lose weight and stay up past 8pm.
Still, bitter.
Medication is better than feeling crappy.
Bitter, though. Big pile of medication for a 37-year-old.
Feeling a little gloaty about being proven right.
Feeling a little bitter about having to bully the medical system in to proving me right.
I think it might take me a while to work through this.
Keely | 15 Comments
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I am glad they finally figured it out. But sucks for sure!!
Take each day!!
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SueAnn
I'm glad they finally Figured It Out. Damn doctors! I've been on thyroid meds for 13 years now, and yes it does suckith. But you do feel MUCHO better if you take your meds so...There's a positive side for ya.
Welcome to the synthroid club! I've been on meds since I was 26, but have had symptoms forever. Growing up, I would ask my doc to PLEASE test me and he would say, "You're not overweight and you're not over 50. It's not your thyroid." After someone finally tested me, they said my TSH was so high that I would have been in a thyroid-induced coma within several years.
Don't know why it's so hard for docs to just do the test. It's not expensive and not invasive... can't find a reason why people like you & me should suffer for so long before getting a little blood drawn, which has made me lose all faith in doctors (until they prove that they use their brain).
I haven't gotten over my bitterness (sorry- I know that's not comforting!), but I do feel a million times better. After a few months on the synthroid, I felt like I had woken up, like I was alive. It's an amazing feeling after walking around like a zombie for years, though bittersweet because I knew I was SUPPOSED to feel this way all along.
Good luck! :)
Use that anger on the roller derby rink. Pretend that bitch in front of you is your doctor and smash her in the face!
(Also? Hashimoto's sounds like a combination head shop and Japanese sushi restaurant.)
Like I said, you now need to add M.D. to your name. Cuz as of right now, you're the only one who deserves the title.
I'm just glad you finally got an answer.
It's about bloody time! Too bad we can't run tests on ourselves because we seem to be the only ones that really know our body and family history. Of course, listening on the doctors part would be too much to ask.
Medication for the rest of your life is not so bad. I was told at 40 that I would be on blood pressure meds forever. I'm not bitter about that part since the alternative is sooooo much worse.
Girl, you have every right to be pissed! I encourage you to savor that feeling as long as you need to and then DO work through it. I am sending you good thoughts and hugs and energy. Taking medicine sucks but feeling crappy sucks worse. Hang in there!
I totally relate to how frustrating it is to not be heard by doctors. I had the opposite problem though 'cuz I kept complaining of fatigue and they kept running thyroid tests on me year after year which always came back normal because that wasn't problem. (You'd think they'd have figured out that they needed to look at something else after the first few times right?) Anyway, I agree with MonsteRawr that you should channel your anger for derby bouts.
Oy. I hate this situation for you but I'm glad that you have a name for it and a treatment to plan. Maybe you will start to feel amazing?
Damn. I clicked the link and now I'm not so sure that I don't have it as well. OF course, I have had about 14 tests for my thyroid, all with no results, and my father and grandfather also have/had thyroid issues.
But hey... the doctor says I'm fine so that's what matters right?
UGH.
So glad you can move forward, sorry about the butt load of meds.
Good news that you have a diagnosis AND that there's a well-established treatment plan and that, in spite of having to take the drugs, it's a pretty simple one. I hope you feel WORLDS better once you are on the meds. Does it affect fertility? Maybe once you have your hormones regulated your fertility will return? That is the hope I will send out into the ether.
Vent, girl. You deserve to. And here's to you for persevering until you were finally heard. As far as the meds for life thing, yeah, it sucks, but you do what you have to do to feel better. And when I say you, I mean me, because I'm a member of the meds for life club. I so hope you start to feel better soon.
Well thank God! I would be pretty pissed at the doctors too, but at least you finally know and it's TREATABLE! Now, you're gonna be some kind of fiery menace on the derby track. Watch out!
You must be kind of relieved, though I'm sorry to hear about the meds for life part...and the not feeling so good. I'd never heard of Hashimoto’s. Then we found out Junior might have Celiac's and I started seeing it everywhere. Dude, I hope you start feeling better like right this frickin minute!