INSOMNIACS place to talk in the wee hours

Oh Golf Girl, Love it that your  hooked. The bowl is beautiful. Replacements.com didn't put a price on them, so it's difficult to know if the EBAY price is fair or too little. But yes, you got a steal at 10$ Yay. It's a limited edition. Limited edition usually becomes immediately collectible.

I love the sheen of leaded glass . I can see the star falling

Blessings I agree with Chevy, you sound good. Your sense of humor is intact. YAY It was me about the noise sensitivity. It's actually painful. Having to turn every thing down. AND I can hear better. My old Endocrin doc said I wanted to blame everything on thyroid. The medication that takes 7 weeks to come to blood level. Oh the changes. Should just copy from another thread where I was pontificating. I'll do that it's easier.

Lol. I definitely was pontificating. Just bypass if it bores you

Stage, the concentration of my study was on Thyroid function and cancer of the thyroid. But there is much written on the connection between the two. BC and thyroid problems may/do have a familial connection. Since I'm past the prevention side of both, I didn't focus on that much. A few points that stayed with me re: BC & Thyroid. With the element Iodine, the thyroid uses the most iodine. The second highest tissue in the body that uses iodine, is breast tissue.  Interesting? Why breast tissue uses iodine is totally unknown. The use of iodine isotopes (diagnostic and cancer treating RAI-131) have all kinds of cautions when breast are intact i.e scans, pregnancy, and breastfeeding. Interesting?

An interesting web site is "stopthethyroidmaddness.com"  STTM and another web sit by a Dr Rind(use his name for the keyword, I forget the name of his web site).

Since I have to be regulated on a much higher dose of thyroid med now b/c the thyroid is gone. I realize all the things that are now starting to correct themselves at a higher dose than I was previously on. The man made parameters of TSH lab test which is considered the gold standard by orthodox endocrine docs, is not addressing the signs and symptoms(s/s's) being shown by patients. If you study the management of all the symptoms that were treated for a hundred years by porcine thyroid and patients descriptions of improvement where dose was related to symptom improvement, we have a pre mid 70's approach and a post mid 70's approach. The change was the introduction of TSH as a measurement of thyroid function.

If I'm having such significant changes on a higher/different level that I can observe, what was happening within my body that I can't observe?  How much affect did thyroid have on breasts? Was my diet lacking in iodine? Was iodine the reason? How are they genetically linked? Is their a link? 

LOL, the research raised more questions per usual than it answered , but it certainly answered allot.

S/S change LOL Constipation which preceded all BC(2009) treatment is now marvelously GONE. Fluid balance i.e water retention. Output much more and edema less. But also stopped Norvasc a slow channel calcium blocker for hypertension notorious for causing lower extremity edema.  Blood pressure improved  and as I just wrote, I'm off one of my BP meds. Truthfully, if I stopped smoking Bp would likely go to normal without a drug. I know shame on me  The weight documented at 177 Dec 2012 that went to 197 over two months, then to 208 during  pre-removal and up to 217 in thyroid suppression state for RAI-131 treatment is finally stabilized and I'm loosing YAY!  Hair stopped falling out and is regrowing. Insomnia is improved, hugely. If it tells you how bad the insomnia was, I started the Insomniacs thread. Depression, I will say is gone, but will clarify with my counselor to see if he agrees  ; ))  Stamina, now can exersize, no energy before. Muscle pain way less. On STTM web site, it's an eyeopener re:fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome history as it relates to the introduction of TSH and physician clinical practice change during that time.. Vertigo-improved. Sense of Smell is coming back, gone for a couple of decades, a bit of a shock to find out I do need to consider deodorant and my sh*t does stink LOL. Tinnitus less loud, been buzzing since 1998. I'll settle for less loud. Would prefer gone though. Cold flashes have actually gotten worse versus the expected improved, but dose adjustment isn't complete. I'm hopeful Eczema of hands last year was awful, now healed. Developed Eczema of the vulva /anal area after RAI-131 treatment,  controlled with Bag Balm, Started to show significant change at 125mcg of levothyroxine, but now healed as dose was increased to 137mcg and came to blood level. Lifting of nails(Onchyolysis)stopped. Last nail that I thought I was going to loose after RAI-131 has reattached during the last two weeks. Brain fog improved. Hearing, this isn't normally on thyroid problems lists, but it's better the last several weeks. I'll take it I think I hit all the major stuff. There are allot of things that weren't wrong with me, but I will go out on a limb here and say it was b/c of Omega3 (I'm out of the closet LOL) 

I know this is long, BUT many of these s/s's were present for a very long time, even decades for fatigue, constipation, pain, sinus, smell some others. Certainly not improved with the small 25 mcg dose of thyroid med I was put on in 2007. The stark changes that occurred before the goiter dx. Then all that happened after and  until the thyroid med after treatment. Plus, the improvements since increased dose from 125mcg to 137mcg. Now the switch to porcine thyroid. I now believe, TSH measured nothing for me. Remember it is a man made level determined by a scientific study. I would bore you with how often in my nursing lifetime beginning in 1969, that science has change an accepted parameter. The joke with us that were teaching at one point was "What are we teaching this year".

How does thyroid relate to breast and Breast Cancer? The story hasn't been written yet.

Blessings, Lol,  I pontificate allot. But this whole ear thing hurts. Many many tests over 50 years. No ear wax problem. BUT There are some interesting questions. 1. Change since thyroid med changes 2. The change I had post Crainotomy-brain surgery

Post crani the use of high dose steroids with the usual weaning. The high dose deals with the any inflammation in the post crani period. Dear Brother came to take care of me. How we knew something was very unusual was the volume on the TV. Usually I had to have it at the max. I had to turn it down to the bottom 1/4(25th%) bars. Otherwise it hurt. We were baffled. DB admitted he brought ear plugs.

After the weaning and for awhile, slowly I had to increase the sound. None of the docs had an answer. Ultimately , returned to the max level.

Obviously indicates, steroids reduced swelling of something. Dear SIl is in the hearing instrument industry. She has access to some of the world elite hearing people. BUT she wouldn't ask. OH WELL.

Now the only change is in thyroid med. Same thing with the volume bar on the TV. I'm at or below the 50% marker. AND that level is irritating. In some cases having to go lower. God love DBF. He hears in the bottom 1/4 bar level. Never complains about what he has had to put up with at max level.

Must admit it could have been a coincident thing b/c I was on Doxy the last two weeks  for an ear infection in the left ear that presented with only eardrum "difference". No other symptoms, ongoing approximately since 5th week post RAI-131, just accepted it as another RAI-131 problem.  But the other ear had no symptoms. The only time there was a hearing change was the high dose steroids and the thyroid med. Okay, may be the doxy and the thyroid are working together. Will know in about three weeks. If I return to having to use max level on TV. It was the Doxy. AND an OH well, not everything is attributable to thyroid

Spookie LOL, add hair and we have Schatzi, plus a beard. On the to do list to see Chevy, is a haircut for Shats