Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Sorry for the delay!

I know it's been a LONG time since I wrote last.  A whole lot has been going on.  I started spring quarter in college and still struggling to make it to both classes and work.  I have good news though! It started with a trip to the hospital last week.  I woke up early to get ready for work and started having some very uncomfortable chest pains so I layed down for a bit.  I woke back up to get the kids some breakfast still having chest pains but this time it was accompanied by a very dizzy, light headed feeling.  As I walked out of my room the next thing I remember is waking up on my hallway floor and low and behold I had peed in my pants!  I was scared so I told boyfriend to come home and take me to the hospital.  Fainting with young children in the house isn't the best thing to do.  I got to the hospital and immediatly after them finding out about my past open-heart surgery I was wheeled off getting all sorts of wires, i.v.'s, and finger thingies hooked up to me.  I was trying to explain that I honestly didn't think it was my heart and kept trying to inform them on my struggle with my thyroid treatments.  They didn't listen and continued to think it was heart related.  When the tests came back that it wasn't they called it syncope and sent me home.  Hmmm, I called my doctor with concern and she got me in the next day.  They did blood work and we reviewed my hospital test results.  The blood work came back with a shocking result, my TSH was at 2.5!!! I was thrilled!  wow, were almost there.  My endo wants to see it at .2 but this was closer than we've ever seen it! A normal level for most people actually.  This still left me with a question about the fainting and still feeling just not right. Well my doctor explained that it was probably a really bad anxiety attack considering i've been battling anxiety since this whole thing started; and i've been really sick for the past week.  The feeling crappy part is probably just from hopping around on meds trying to figure one appropriate for my anxiety.  That should definately be easier than the thyroid meds.  I am currently on 300 mcg of Synthroid and 15mcg of Cytomel a day and probably going to stay close to that for the rest of my life; but it feels good to have it almost right where we want it! YAHOOOO!!!