Kafka had nothing on this
So I’ve learned today a lot about T4 and Hashimoto’s and taking thyroid replacement and me. So the thyroid meds I am taking lose their effectiveness by degrees as your body is supposed to create the same matching amount and thereby reducing your need of the drug by a certain amount.
Only sometimes humans don’t work that way and sometimes you don’t create enough of it, and sometimes you need more of it, and sometimes things just go awry, as they have for me. The initial lift in the meds created an initial lift in me but soon my body absorbed and matched but soon lost capacity and now again I am not producing enough hormone to regulate my thyroid which explains why my hair grew, fell out, grew, fell out, grew, and stopped.
Thank god my doctor is also my friend and was able to communicate with me here in Cadiz and so now I’m upping my dosage and hoping that will get me closer to where I need to be – of course, I need another TSH test to determine, but I’m hoping I can wait on that till I get back to NOLA.
The thyroid, the butterfly gland, the gland that basically is the conductor for your entire ecosystem, my butterfly keeps going back in the cocoon and sometimes it emerges a caterpillar, sometimes a half winged butterfly, and sometimes it doesn’t emerge at all. Metamorphosis is taking on battle ground dimensions in my body on a daily basis.
So I’m just one of those that is hard to get – the medicine takes and wanes, my hair grows and recedes, we take one step closer and then two back – it’s the cha cha I’ve been doing all my life only now it is concentrated in one little gland that looks like a butterfly and acts like king kong.
July 31st, 2012 at 4:19 pm
Am sorely going to miss your posts….. guess I’ll have to read some older ones so I don’t go in to withdrawal. 😀 Here’s hoping that that ‘butterfly’ of yours wakes up whilst you are resting and reading. Enjoy.
July 31st, 2012 at 4:59 pm
Rachel, Tatjana, Tin!! What a summer adventure – your blog is a joy to read every time I manage to peek at it…We think of you often, and hope your offline time is restorative…enjoy every unplugged minute (even those during which you’re craving connection) – the digital world will be waiting, along with your dear friends who appreciate the connections it provides us. Love you!
C&B
August 1st, 2012 at 1:26 am
Thanks Marilyn – greatly appreciate it. I’m kickstarting the vacation in a couple of hours and already miss the dialogue that has begun with my cyber pals.
August 1st, 2012 at 1:30 am
Carol – I think you were the last friends to see me with hair! No really, seems like we met in this current whirlwind and I remember fondly our talks with you sitting on that little stool in the European kitchen – trying to figure it all out – ha, who could figure any of this out? Lots of love to both you and Bob.
August 4th, 2012 at 6:27 pm
Rachel, Taylor was here for a week and asked about you and TIn. She left yesterday and now I can catch up with you and your metamorphosis. I am rooting for your butterfly to rise up and lay King Kong down, put her knee on his neck and turn him on his back where his legs kick uselessly and he can do no more harm. Love you and miss you all.