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Well you guys, this thyroid thing has been an issue for me for many years. I just haven’t been able to find any real help with it. Fortunately my General practice doctor did a bunch of years ago. He ran my labs and found out I’m hyp0thyroid. At least 3 or 4years ago. First he started me on the lowest possible dose of levothyrixin. 25mcg (that’s micrograms). The important thing to notice here is the way we take this thyroid medicine. It’s a hormone pill. Yep, a dude sometimes needs hormone pills!. yikes… After a few months, not that I remember. My doctor increased the dose to 50mcg every morning, because he followed up. He’s good, huh?. The other important thing to remember about this medication is to take it on an empty stomach, first thing in the morning, and with plenty of water. And not to eat anything else that might dilute the hormone (fake hormone, works though-apparently) I remember when I was in the hospital, n having a hard time convincing even good professional nurses to bring it to me at least 20 minutes before I got my breakfast. A couple of them didn’t like a patient giving them directions about things they should know so they even checked with the pharmacy at the hospital. I found out the pharmacist said I should take it “with plenty of water half an hour before any food” The nurse got an attitude and checked. Actually it was me with the attitude. Might at well be honest with ya.
It’s extremely important.
We’ve talked about this on this web site before. In the past I’ve tried cutting back on this morning hormone pill and thought I noticed myself mellowing out a lil bit as a result. But my gut instinct said “this’ a bad idea man!” Well last week. (on feb. 4) I went to see my doctor and finally remembered to talk to him some more about my thyroid, and in particular my metabolism.
I wrote it down on my hand, so I would remember
I did finally get that lab work done. He ordered more lab work TSH (3rd generation). He says that I shouldn’t notice any difference in my energy level for up to 5 or 6 months!.
That freaked me out. So I said “So it’s just the placebo effect, huh?” he says. “yep probably”
Huh?… I told him a story about over 12 years ago when I was in the hospital fighting off a MRSA infection and also fighting to keep my entire right leg. Yep, I had to get a bunch of second opinions after the first doctor wanted to amputate my entire dang leg. Well I kept my leg. Fortunately at the time my girlfriend who was a nurse practitioner was visiting me in the hospital and she made sure I got the best possible care.
I’m still alive because God put Babetta in my life. She’s totally hot too! I mean drop dead gorgeous HOT YOU GUYS!
She made the difference of me living or dying. That’s the truth. So before I went home I had a conversation about faith with the doctor in charge of my care during all three of my 2 month stays at Kindread hospital in San Leandro. That’s the bay area near San Francisco. What a nightmare. I said to the Dr. “I may not even matter if there is a God, what matters is my faith”. Well, I felt really silly after telling my doctor about that conversation last week. Because at this point in my life. 12 years later. Way too many things have happened as a result of my faith, too many real miracles have taken place in my life, and to the people around me for me to ( I’ve spelt it differently) ever doubt that God does indeed exist. Sorry if you don’t like the facts of my life. They are true for me. And very true for tons of my friends. Most of my closest friends call themselves Christians. Lot’s of them are too.
The thyroid pills. Well I’m being extremely careful about cutting back on them because while I’ve got tons of faith, and I do trust Jesus Christ with my life. And all of my life. I also trust that God has put me in the hands of the right doctors, a bunch. Many good doctors. So I will go ahead and do like I did this morning. And take slightly less of the thyroid meds. And I’ll keep a journal right in the same calendar that I use to keep all my appointments organized in.
I try to follow directions and just one use calender. It says that in the ADD and Mastering it DVD video, documentary thing. I likes ta watch it agen, n agen.
I noticed today that I’ve been a bit more relaxed. But I’m guessing it’s mainly because I’ve also started to cut back on the Bupropion. I’ve been taking just one instead of two for about 3 weeks now. I want to take less but it’s just like a lot of other medications, like SSRI’s. It takes as much as 6 weeks. Or even longer for the effects to fully set in. I noticed a gazzilian years back when I first started taking prozac that I felt much too energized right in the first few weeks. Even had to stop taking it and switch to paxil. Don’t get me started (DGMS) about paxil. Weaning myself off of that crap was an absolute nitemare!. No doctor could convince me to try that stuff again. I’m like NEVER suicidal, but if I had a friend that was, I might ask him to take a lil bit of SSRI meds. Actually I would send him to my doctor. Yep, that’s all I would do. Uhuh… Soon I hope to get the okay about cutting back a bit more on the stuff I take now. Of course my doctor is much better than the one we read about. Well, not me… but I got the feeling at church last week (I go to 3 different churches) that a few other folks in my life may have read that NYT article about a depressed and insane dude not having the right medical attention and he’s no longer with us. His family is destroyed, and the newspapers made a profit off of the dang publicity. And the dang FEAR that grips so much of our ignorant populace… like I said. DGMS.
Newspapers are great for wrapping stinking dead fish! And that’s all I have to say about that.
I’m also doing a good job of eating really healthy. I’ve got a juicer, and I even have a little crop of wheat grass on the window sill of my kitchen. I feel like a dang cow chewing his cud when I cut some grass with my kitchen scissors and go roll around in my aparment. chomp chomp. chew chew. munch munch.
***grass feed beef*** (flexing my bicep)
Thanks
R-