What is the saying? The more things change, the more they stay the same?
Once again, I find myself not knowing much of anything, except that I am going nowhere. After doing blood work, and seeing my Endo today, we have changed my meds...once again. This time, we are keeping the same dose, but changing to a different name brand. (switching from brand name Synthroid to brand name Levoxyl) I will continue on with the brand name Cytomel as well.
Long story short, my TSH levels are through the roof. (normal range is .5-4.0.....mine is at 73.0) This is the first time I have ever sat down and looked over the list of symptoms for Hypothyroidism and realized that I have EVERY.SINGLE.ONE.OF.THEM. It is so disheartening, because I still feel like I am getting nowhere. My Dr. had a good analogy.....she said it is as if I have been treading water for so long, and now, not only am I still treading, but suddenly I am getting further and further away from shore. She is baffled by all of this too. Changing brands was kind of a "lets see if this works" kind of approach to it. And she will spend the next few weeks researching and seeing what other options we might have.
What this also means, is they are still holding off on scheduling my full body scan that they were supposed to do last month. Now, it will at least be May before we do it. I am not happy about this at all, but the way this scan is done, there is no way they can do it with my levels all being so out of control.
So, once again, I left the Dr. office feeling defeated, and feeling like I have to keep on the "strong face" a little longer. That is getting harder and harder to do though....
