it’s a big one

a parvum opus penned by Queen of Everything, on July 23rd, 2010

You may or not know that I’ve been on generic Synthroid for over a week. I will save my discussion of generics v. name brands for another time. I’ve been keeping track of my symptoms and I have noticed a slight change. Here are my changes:

Fewer naps (some days none)
Fewer mood swings
Scalp itchiness
Dry skin
Worsening insomnia
Memory inconsistencies

Ok so it looks like some things are better and some are not. All of this just shows me that the medicine is now in my system. I can say that I am only experiencing about a 25% improvement so I’m not sure how I feel about it.

Fellow Hypothyroid sufferer Steph at http://www.annoyinglydomestic.com/ sent me a link of sites that I’m trying to get through. Among the sites was one that contained a list of “Pathetic” symptoms of Hypothyroid. Let’s examine the list, shall we? I want to point out that these symptoms can linger even while ON a thyroid med.

Less stamina than others	Less energy than others	Long recovery period after any activity
Chronic Low Grade Depression	Often feeling cold	Cold hands and feet
Constipation	No eyebrows or thinning outer eyebrows	Dry Hair
Hair Loss	No hair growth, breaks faster than it grows	Dry cracking skin
Nodding off easily	Requires naps in the afternoon	Inability to concentrate or read long periods of time
Forgetfulness	Foggy thinking	Inability to function in a relationship with anyone
NO sex drive	Failure to ovulate and/or constant bleeding	Moody periods
PMS	Breakout on chest and arms	Exhaustion in every dimension – physical, mental, spiritual, emotional
Inability to work full-time	Inability to stand on feet for long periods	Complete lack of motivation
Extremely crabby, irritable, intolerant of others	Broken/peeling fingernails	Dry skin or snake skin
Major anxiety/worry	Ringing in ears	Lactose Intolerance
No Appetite	Low body temperature	Allergies (which can also be a result of low cortisol–common with hypothyroid patients)
Headaches and Migraines	now how do I put this one politely.…a cold bum, butt, derriere, fanny, gluteus maximus, haunches, hindquarters, posterior, rear, and/or cheeks. Yup, really exists.

NOTE: These are only MY symptoms. If you want to examine the complete pathetic list for yourself, you’ll find it at: http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/long-and-pathetic/.

As you may remember me complaining about: it makes it hard for one to job search when you can’t remember things.

And now this.