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3/11/18 12:25 A
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Fitness Minutes: (123,235)
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Thanks for the links, joined both of them. Trying to cope with chronic diseases is exhausting. There's no question that I need thyroid medication. Over 20 years ago a prominent doc in St Louis with a renowned teaching hospital told me that my thyroid was malignant. He was chief of surgery at that hospital. I lost my thyroid and most of the parathyroids. It's been a struggle ever since.
I also have lymphodema. After years of trying to cope, I finally found an occupational therapist who has helped. I look like a mummy, but I wrap my legs from the ankle to the knee with a wrap from Germany, Comprilan. My legs now look like human legs instead of piano legs. I guess that I didn't win the genetic lottery. My grandmother and aunts all suffered from it.
I've gone to a weight loss specialist one time. He's a board certified internist and endocrinologist. He at least pays attention, which my primary doc hasn't done, to the thyroid problems. He's lowered my dosage from .2 to .175 to .15, but I felt almost comatose with the lowest dose, so he agreed to return to the .175. I had switched several months ago from the levothyroxin to the "real" synthroid.
My former internist said that Armour wasn't good for people over 65. I don't know if she just pulled that out of thin air or if she's right. Needless to say, she's my ex-internist, as she wasn't paying any attention to me or to my husband. (the new doc sent him to an urologist, who discovered his prostate cancer).
We really have to watch the docs and find the right one, if that's possible. We also switched urologists/surgeons for my husband. Sometimes it absolutely wears me out.
I also have lymphodema. After years of trying to cope, I finally found an occupational therapist who has helped. I look like a mummy, but I wrap my legs from the ankle to the knee with a wrap from Germany, Comprilan. My legs now look like human legs instead of piano legs. I guess that I didn't win the genetic lottery. My grandmother and aunts all suffered from it.
I've gone to a weight loss specialist one time. He's a board certified internist and endocrinologist. He at least pays attention, which my primary doc hasn't done, to the thyroid problems. He's lowered my dosage from .2 to .175 to .15, but I felt almost comatose with the lowest dose, so he agreed to return to the .175. I had switched several months ago from the levothyroxin to the "real" synthroid.
My former internist said that Armour wasn't good for people over 65. I don't know if she just pulled that out of thin air or if she's right. Needless to say, she's my ex-internist, as she wasn't paying any attention to me or to my husband. (the new doc sent him to an urologist, who discovered his prostate cancer).
We really have to watch the docs and find the right one, if that's possible. We also switched urologists/surgeons for my husband. Sometimes it absolutely wears me out.