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Hypo- Not Hyper- Thyroid

The ob/gyn's office made a mistake and told me I was hyperthyroid, they even told my GP's office I was hyperthyroid, but the test result actually means low thyroid, when the TSH is high, the actual thyroid hormones (T3? and T4? I don't know) are low. So they allowed somebody... Continue reading

Posted Sep 18, 2014 at Across and Inside my Universe

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I May Have Grave's Disease

I have had alot of medical appointments this year, many of them involving the gastroenterologist. He did alot of blood tests last December, but not a thyroid test, so at my physical this week, after a friend had suggested, "Get your thyroid tested," I decided it would be a good... Continue reading

Posted Sep 13, 2014 at Across and Inside my Universe

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I'm In For a Slew of Medical Tests

You know how they say watch out for changes in bowel habits, and losing weight for no reason, and a variety of other symptoms that might go with that? Well, I've been sick for the last few months, and I've got some test results back that rule out just taking... Continue reading

Posted Nov 1, 2013 at Across and Inside my Universe

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Well, that whole last post is a symptom.

Ugh. Should I even be posting in my current shape? I dunno. It's like . . . . psychologically spreading your . . . . well . . . anyway, for the whole world. Not the best analogy. On the other hand, I'm kind of curious about how the brain... Continue reading

Posted Sep 5, 2013 at Across and Inside my Universe

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Well, Let's Try That Again

Seeing as how I've now seen my psychiatrist, and she didn't say to only contact her via snail mail, (her new mail receptionist DID tell me that but I'll chalk that up to him being a newbie . . . he needs more training but I guess we'll see how... Continue reading

Posted Sep 4, 2013 at Across and Inside my Universe

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Back in the Saddle Again

At least, I saw my psychiatrist on Friday, for the first time since early February of this year. She weighed a few options, one of them being a new mood stabilizer that isn't fattening (that makes it sound like junk food lol), but she settled on topirimate, which I've been... Continue reading

Posted Jul 28, 2013 at Across and Inside my Universe

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It Could Be Alot Worse

I'm having some anxiety over my mammogram results, but it could be much worse. So, I had my first baseline set May 13th; they wanted me back for a closer look at one, which they told me was pretty common as when they have no baseline to compare to they... Continue reading

Posted Jul 5, 2013 at Across and Inside my Universe

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Continuing to Exist

In my head I suspect that's the preferred or "better" option than others. That about covers things. Back to bed with me, I have a headache and don't feel well. Want to pull the blankets up and pretend the rest of the world doesn't exist, at least outside my household,... Continue reading

Posted Jul 3, 2013 at Across and Inside my Universe

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Well, I'm not safe. Lability is uncomfortably high (I hope I'm using the term correctly). My state of mind, my emotional perspective, keeps shifting so much that any decision I make, even fully believing and commiting to it, I can be doing just the opposite five minutes later (or half... Continue reading

Posted Jul 2, 2013 at Across and Inside my Universe

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Bring On The Chocolate and Take My Uterus (Maybe)

Why, you ask? One doesn't need a reason for chocolate; however, I happen to have a pretty good one anyway. Uterine biopsies hurt really, really, badly, and so I need some chocolate. Now, the biopsy is just a precaution, given my untreated PCOS for so many years and having gone... Continue reading

Posted May 16, 2013 at Across and Inside my Universe

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Why My Knee Replacements Were So Extra Traumatizing

Total Knee Replacement surgical recovery is a grueling, wearing, painful (in so many types), exhausting (both physically and emotionally), often torturous process/experience. While I don't want to diminish the purely physical aspects too much, and say they aren't traumatizing, I believe that the worst of what I went through after... Continue reading

Posted Apr 22, 2013 at Across and Inside my Universe

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Currently Fighting "Full-Blown" Mania and Suicide

I put the full-blown in quote marks, because that's how my psychologist has put it; he says I need to tell my psychiatrist that I'm quite suicidal as well as suffering from full-blown mania with all the reckless/bad/dangerous/stupid/risky/wrong stuff that goes along with that, with my particular manic urges. He... Continue reading

Posted Mar 31, 2013 at Across and Inside my Universe

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Who Ordered All This Snow?

This is me, 9pm Friday, after shoveling 4-5 inches more of snow. Before this storm, there was 5 inches of old snowfall on the ground. Weds night they said that from Thurs afternoon to Fri afternoon the valleys would get 3-6". HA! We had 4 inches in the first 3... Continue reading

Posted Jan 11, 2013 at Across and Inside my Universe

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Anyway, Monday's apsychiatrist pt. has left me . . . confused. The Lamictal is being stopped, for being the culprit of the bladder/kidney problems . . . but that's not what has me confused. More at another time. I'm starting to get spam trackbacks, and aside from turning TB's off,... Continue reading

Posted Jan 9, 2013 at Across and Inside my Universe

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Do What Hurts the Most to Improve What Hurts the Most

Or: No pain, no gain. That's a little black and white, but since running from pain is what I do best, learning to just sit with my pain, heck, learning to recognize when what I'm doing is a defense or running from pain, is pretty much where I'm at alot... Continue reading

Posted Dec 28, 2012 at Across and Inside my Universe

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When Your Doctors Don't Believe You

When your doctors don't believe you, you feel like you need to prove your problem/theory/what-have-you, if it is provable. In my case, the Lamictal IS affecting my urinary system. So the not brief but explained as briefly as possible history/experiences that I explained to all three doctors in September about... Continue reading

Posted Dec 6, 2012 at Across and Inside my Universe

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So, for almost a week my emotional and mental state has been all over the place. I feel like a bungee cord that's been overused . . . . one hour I'll be thinking I have really good insights and have solved a really good problem (who says I haven't?),... Continue reading

Posted Sep 15, 2012 at Across and Inside my Universe

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Having Participation in Utah's State Electronic Medical Records Shoved Down My Throat

Edit: After a bunch of ranting prompted by a Senator's comment, I've realized I should have cooled down before writing. I'll post in a day or two my further opinions, including having read more articles . . . but here's the basics without the ranting. We're rather unorganized around here,... Continue reading

Posted Sep 15, 2012 at Across and Inside my Universe

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And The Walls Came Tumblin' Down

Well, that's what it feels like. The window in our bedroom started cracking in the wood frame that holds it in the wall; plaster cracked and water came out, and eventually wet wood sawdust bits . . . the wall is sunk in and soft in the lower corners. There's... Continue reading

Posted Aug 24, 2012 at Across and Inside my Universe

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I Want To Crawl Out of My Skin

I just read here, after I googled it, that other people have had something similar, on atypical antipsychotics. This has happened to me noticeably twice now, within an hour or two of taking my nightly meds (Lamictal & Seroquel; I'm supposed to take Lamictal in the morning but I always... Continue reading

Posted Aug 17, 2012 at Across and Inside my Universe

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Sleep Paralysis, the Hallucinogenic Kind

You do NOT want to experience this. It's beyond the most horrific, terrifying, deathly, panicked, frantic thing I've ever experienced. I've had this once or twice before, and had forgotten all about them. Last week I had one. I woke up, but I couldn't move. The fact that I couldn't... Continue reading

Posted Aug 6, 2012 at Across and Inside my Universe

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Every Little Girl Wants To Be A Princess, Sometime

Look at the puffed sleeves! Icon of fashion, I'm not. Well, it was the mid-nineties . . . however I do not know if they were "in" or not. The dress had just gotten back from rental for someone else when I tried it on, so I guess it's not... Continue reading

Posted Jul 31, 2012 at Across and Inside my Universe

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Seeking British Food for our Olympic Opening Ceremonies Party

By party, I mean the three of us celebrate. No one ever comes to anything we invite them to, except a scattering to birthday parties, except now those are held at the in-laws' houses. So, we have made our own traditions for the three of us, and one of them... Continue reading

Posted Jul 26, 2012 at Across and Inside my Universe

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Bipolar Extremes: Responsible or Not?

That title is very black and white, is it not? In a recent Psychology Today blog post, entitled The Elephant In The Bipolar Room, it is proposed that what if the paradigm regarding whether bipolar people caught in the extremes of their illness, the dark depressions and the really high... Continue reading

Posted Jul 20, 2012 at Across and Inside my Universe

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One Noisy Neighbor Out; A Pair of Them In

In the decade we've lived here, we've rarely had problems with noisy neighbors. Our last one, who moved out two weeks ago, was an exception. Her stereo was in the bedroom, or at least the one she preferred to listen to, was. In the last 3/4 year I've gotten more... Continue reading

Posted Jul 17, 2012 at Across and Inside my Universe

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