Current mood:	tentatively hopeful
Current music:	somafm spacestation soma

more good news/bad news on the health front
So, today my doctor put my on thyroid replacement therapy for Hashimoto's Disease, a fairly common form of autoimmune hypothyroidism.  There's lots on the web about this, but the interesting thing is that since my poisoning adventure last year, I've notice I have good days and bad days -- and the bad days were always associated with swollen feet and often with my skin getting very dry and just dying in layers on my face and such (yum, I know...).

Anyway, this was a clue to my new doctor who did a full thyroid blood panel on me, and found that my levels merited replacement therapy.  The problem with this is -- well, once you start this, you can never stop, because your own thyroid will stop making the stuff and atrophy.  But hell, it's $10/mo retail, one pill a day.  Most of my friends in my age cohort are taking some pill that saves their life (anything from cardiac to tricyclic anti-depressants or whatever) and I got to 49 without a daily pill.

But now, I'm afraid to wonder what will or won't get better.  My hearing?  My weight?  My feet that are often so swollen that I can't wear anything but slippers?  Some of this brain fog that's plagued me sometimes for days?  My hair loss (and you wonder why you never see me without a cap...well, wait, I've always worn a cap, but now I have more reasons...)?  My crappy energy levels?

Anyway, I am trying to not set myself up for disappointment over the next month or three, as I wait to see what, if anything, in my life is transformed...