Endocrine Excitement

In the past two weeks, I've had blood work and my annual thyroid ultrasound. Today I visited my Endo for the results. It looks like I was right and all that fatigue, dry skin, cold and achy joints really do mean I need an increase in my levothyroxine (aka Synthroid). Much as we are equal parts happy and devastated when we receive an IF diagnosis, I'm relieved (and actually not devastated at all) that my blood work came back the way it did. It means that I have an answer this time, as I increase my dose I can look forward to feeling better, and it's nothing more scary than that.

The ultrasound is always a tiny bit of a nail biter because there's always the chance I'll develop more nodules, the nodules I have will grow, or that I can live up to the stats that I have a bigger chance of developing thyroid cancer. Luckily at this time my one previous nodule has not grown any appreciable amount, and the one new one I have is still teensy.

On the PCOS front, all of my blood work looks really good, and I got my period yet again this cycle! Thank you E for giving me a respite from that crap. My cycles are pretty consistently falling in the 45 to 50 day long range, and that's the best they've been without any medication in at least 10 years! And even MORE awesome is the fact that I can't even tell I used to have a severe widow's peak anymore. The hair has grown in so much there that I have to figure new ways to work it. Methinks it's time for another visit to the hair salon. Oh happy day! I take these little health challenges one victory at a time.