Almost Thanksgiving

I'll note that the thyroid med is helping. This is a tricky subject. My test results are normal for thyroid. But the spot in my neck is a big larger. I have the symptoms for hypothyroidism. Which mimic fibromyalgia and depression. I began taking some of my old thyroid med. The Armour thyroid. This company is on back order for this medicine. Its not FDA approved. It has been used for over a hundred years, so they gave it Grandfather drug status. It contains T3and T4. The synthetic thyroid the doctors normally give has only ^T4. There is controversy over this. I prefer the natural thyroid. Since the Armour Thyroid is on back order, my pharmacy is making compounded pills. They are getting the thyroid and putting it in capsules. If anyone reading this is curious go to Stop the thyroid madness web site.

I am feeling so much better. Each day I have more and more energy. I'm feeling human again. I can't understand why the medical community doesn't understand this. Maybe if I went to a specialist I would have been prescribed this. My doctor wanted me to take the synthetic thyroid. I had to talk him into letting me try this. It takes a prescription so I needed his approved. I'm not going to get too excited...just in case I rebound. But I have a feeling this will continue to work for me. I've woken up earlier the last two mornings feeling well. Its so strange because I've been so accustomed to being exhausted when I woke.
I've gotten lots done. I've put up my Christmas trees. One in the living room and the one downstairs with family ornaments...kid ones. I've done lots of errands the last couple of days. I tutored my student yesterday. We didn't have a lot of homework. He is interested in family history so we did some searching on the internet. His grandparents were visiting so they were helpful for this project. Its great this boy has love for his family history at such a young age. The best place to look is ancestry.com but I think you need to pay. They may be somethings you can search for free.