flashback to when i was pregnant with carter... i went in for routine blood work. i got a call back from the ob's office that i needed to see my regular dr. right away because my thyroid levels were way high. i always thought it was a fluke. but went on the meds anyway. after a month on the meds, i started running out, wondering why i was still taking them since they seemed to make me feel worse than i did before taking the meds. i actually felt fine before the meds, which was why i thought it was funny when my dr. told me in a few days i would start to feel so much better...better than fine? i was all over that!!! so i stopped taking them when i ran out. i asked for another blood test and guess what? my levels were normal!! i then let my dr. know that i had stopped taking the meds, and that they made me tired and sluggish, the opposite of what they were supposed to do. he told me that if i felt better off of the meds then i shouldn't take them. but my ob said that i should definately do another test after the baby was born...carter is now 7 months.
for a few weeks now i have been having weird things going on with my heart. a weird pounding, or sometimes fluttering. so i went in to see a new dr. on thursday. first thing is he thinks it's my thyroid. i got sent to the lab to get blood work done on friday morning. monday afternoon the dr. calls to tell me that my levels are way low! so he prescribes me the very same meds that i was on before that made me tired. i told him about that, and he says that it would be in my best intrest to take these meds as my levels are the lowest he's ever seen and if i don't start the meds soon i could slip into a coma and die. DIE???!!!!! WHAT???!!!! i feel fine! i'm only tired now because i don't know how to go to bed at a decent hour like normal folk, and my heart keeps doing this funky thing, but otherwise i feel fine!! jay thinks i should retest, but i don't know that i will since this has happened before, i go back again to see my dr. on thursday and i'll be armed with lots of questions, but for now...off to get my meds!!
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5 comments:
That is some scary stuff, Lisa! PLEASE take the meds! a second opinion certainly isn't a bad idea, and maybe a second test to be sure the results were right. I'll be praying for you!
Definitely retest!!! My levels were screwy, and it took a few tests to determine nothing was wrong. BUT!!!! take your meds in the meantime. Keeping you in my thoughts!
Health IS important! It won't hurt to get an second opinion or a second test (ok, maybe just a little bit with blood test)
Do take care of yourself!
How scary! Keep taking the meds... and get a 2nd opinion
Prayers & Hugs!
Hi Lisa, I'm just a blog hopper who checks in at your blog once in a while ... you guys caught me with those awesome icons you have! Love em... anyway, I have low thyroid and the thing that drove me to the drs was a heart incident. I had pain down my arm, up into my neck and jaw and it didn't go away for hours. Turns out thyroid has lots to do with cardiac output, and lots of other things that keep your body functioning on an even keel. Your friends are right - keep taking the meds and ask your dr for the most extensive testing so that you can put your mind and body at peace. I hope it all works out! Jennie
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