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Of Course I Should Have Known Better – THYROID!

May 13, 2009 By Scott K. Johnson 14 Comments

I have been feeling tired again, despite using my CPAP machine every night.  My blood sugars have been running high.  I’ve been trying to counter that with ever increasing amounts of insulin, without much success.  I’ve been gaining weight.  I can’t focus or stay on task for long.  Everything is harder.

thyroid7All these signals are pretty clear looking at them from the other side of my latest endo appointment.  My thyroid levels have dropped off the charts.

I had some vague ideas about all of the things that are affected by low thyroid levels, but really didn’t appreciate the severity of it.  For most of my life I’ve just taken a small pill or two to “fix” the thyroid issue, and that was that!

But I recently fell into a lazy rut about managing my prescriptions, and had been taking old, expired thyroid pills for the past couple of months.  And it bit me in the ass.

I feel like shit, and it’s my own fault.  The kicker of it is, these pills are the cheapest of my routine meds.  I don’t even have the excuse of them being too expensive.  I think it has a lot to do with my trying to order (and pay) for everything together once a quarter.

I’m on new pills now, but the doc says it will be about three weeks before I start feeling better.  I can’t wait!  But at least I have an explanation for how I’ve been feeling, and for my blood sugars running so stubbornly high.

And, I’ve also learned my lesson about expired pills.

Filed Under: Blog Posts Tagged With: Prescriptions, Thyroid, Tired

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