Cleaning

I did get to my closet yesterday.  It felt good to get that job done.  After I took everything out of there I vacuumed the floor and floor boards.  Then I scrubbed it.  Once it was dry I put things back inside.  I had a couple small boxes of some really nice cloth diapers that I can't get rid of.  I will save them awhile yet.  Maybe Whitney will use them someday.  They are the nice fitted kind with snaps and nice covers.  I liked using them and hardly ever used disposables.

I decided to give away my two small boxes of maternity clothes.  Then I went through the clothes on hangers and got 4 garbage bags full.  Those are clothes that are too small for me as well as other things I have been hanging on to that I haven't worn in a long time and probably never will.  It's a nice feeling that my section isn't so stuffed.

I always hope I will loose weight again but know that it is no sense trying until my thyroid gets back to normal, as normal as mine can get anyway.  I can literally not eat anything and still gain weight.  The good news is I haven't gained for awhile and the last few weeks I have noticed that I have actually lost about 7 pounds. 

I did see an endocrinologist about 2 months who was recommended to me by a lady who also has thyroid disease.  After she saw the results of my thyroid tests she put me on a higher dosage of meds.  We don't increase quickly.  You have to go slow with these meds.  I just went up to the next highest mcgs that my pills come in. 

Currently I am taking 112 mcg of synthroid and 5 mcg of generic cytomel once a day.  That is up from 100 mcg.  So you can see it isn't a big jump.  The synthroid is to replace the t-4 my thyroid doesn't make and the cytomel replaces the t-3.  Some people don't have to take t-3 as their bodies can convert the t-4 to the needed t-3.  Mine can't or won't.

I will go in for more blood tests the middle of August to see what my levels are.  The thing with Hashimoto's Disease, which is an auto-immune type of thyroid disease, things never stay the same.  I can have flare ups, inflammation in the thyroid, that cause fluctuations in the need for more or less hormone replacement.

I'm not making excuses for my weight gain as I could eat less.  It just gets frustrating that when I do loose weight and am doing well I can have a flare up and gain 15 pounds in 3 weeks and not be eating any different.

So I got rid of all the smaller sizes.  I am tired of looking at them.  If I ever do loose weight I will just buy some different clothes.

I did have some heart palpitations again last Tuesday while we were in Kohl's.  Leah was trying on some clothes, she likes to do that, when they started.  Although I didn't time it they seemed to last about a half an hour.  I did cortices a few times but it still took awhile for it to stop.  I got all sweaty and felt quite ill and just sat in the dressing room until they stopped.  I will make sure and mention it to my doctor when I talk to her.

There is some controversy about the cytomel.  And I do think the cytomel is what causes the heart palps.  According to the endocrinologist the cytomel is only short lasting about 8 hours.  So technically that would have been out of my system by that time.   I am supposed to take another dose of the 5 mcg around noon but hardly ever do.  I am wondering if I should only take 1/2 a dose in the morning.  I would have to cut a pill in half as 5 mcg is the smallest dose they make.

I do know that heart palpitations prefaced my last flare up.  So maybe that is what is happening again.  Who knows.  I get tired of trying to figure it out.

Tim also cleaned out his part of the closet.  He had 4 items he got rid of!!  And those were things that were too big.  He has a super great metabolism and looses weight when he really doesn't want to.  And he eats a lot!  I guess we are "Jack Sprat and his wife" though he doesn't eat the lean and I the fat.  Such is life.

We heard that one of the second hand stores is asking for donations.  So we will drop off the clothes there.  Most of the items we are donating are nice dress clothes.  Hopefully they won't be too outdated.

I had best go wake Daniel.  He needs at least one half to an hour to wake up, eat, and get ready to do his vision therapy.  I am a bit disappointed as yesterday I noticed his right eye "shutting off" again.  He was looking at Leah's "Your Big Backyard" magazine we ordered as part of her birthday present.  When he looked up his right eye stayed turned in.  He wasn't wearing his glasses.  But I haven't noticed this happening in quite awhile.  I will have to mention it to Dr. Agnes and see what he has to say.

Have a good day.