Villa Ari

After a very wet July, last week we finally had some dry days, so Marcel c.s. painted the gardenhouse. The colors will be the same as our house: "Boerencrème" (Farmers cream) and "Zaans groen" (Zaans green, Zaandam is a Dutch city, in the old city many houses originally were painted green...). The cream is done now, and again we are waiting for dry weather... so the rest can be done.

Last month my thyroid values (free T4 and TSH) were finally okay. Sadly I still feel way too tired... So I went back to my GP, who ordered bloodtests again. Thursday they draw some blood and next week I will hear the results...

hospital

Today I went to the hospital to see the internist, a nice short visit:
I have Hashimoto's thyroiditis, an autoimmune disease. In the next months the dosage of Thyrax will be upped every few weeks.
Although I don't feel much better, I am not getting worse either. But the TSH count last week was 56, a lot lower than the first test.
In 5 weeks time drawing blood again and in 6 weeks the next appointment.

Cardiologist

Today I had my next appointment at the hospital, with the cardiologist.
My hart is doing well, there is only a bit of extra fluid in the way, there is extra fluid in my whole body, because of the thyroid problem. So the cardiologist thought it will go away on its own when the thyroid levels are back on track. This can take a while...

Next appointment on February 11th, then I will see the internist and hopefully hear more about my thyroid problem.

human medical troubles

I have been very tired and slow for the past months, at first we thought I had a major depression again, but upping my meds did not help.

So I finally went to my doctor (did I mention I don't like doctors?) over a week ago, the next day there was blood drawn (dit I mention I don't like needles?) and the bloodtest showed my thyroid does not work well, probably for a long time, as it was/is servere and I was send to the hospital right away (did I mention I really dislike hospitals?). Was there the whole afternoon, blood drawn again and many questions answered to the coassistent (that is a doctor in his last years of his training for a specialism) of Internal. There was taken a heartfilm too and that was not completely as is should be, so while waiting for the okay to leave from the cardiologist, I panicked big time and left.

Tomorrow there will be taken an echo of my heart.
I have no diagnose for the thyroid, it could be infectious, it could be Hashimoto's, we don't know yet. February 11th I will see the internist, or he will see me is probably a better way of saying I have an appointment.
My brain is a bit foggy.
And February 1th I have an apointment with the cardiologist.

I am taking thyroid-pills now and feel off and on sometimes within a few minutes time.

the symptoms of van hypothyroidism are partly the same as Major Depression list of symptoms (Wikipedia)