Got A New Toy Today.

Went to the doctor again last week for follow up. Took blood from me again for testing and got the news back. Some how the blood test can show what's going on from 3 months back and seems my sugar is high. And the pills I've been taking for under active thyroid has my thyroid pretty much normal. But I'm still feeling as tired out because my blood sugar is high.

Getting very confusing to me!! I don't understand how the thyroid was the problem before, but now that it's much back to normal and I'm still the same, it's now my sugar level that's making me sick and tired. Get what I'm saying??? Seems a bit odd to me, just to say it nicely! ;-)
Anyway, I now have another pill to take twice a day to bring down my sugar and stick my finger twice a day to check the blood sugar. Yuck!!
First check today was 297. Suppose to be between 107 - 142. Guess it's a little on the upper side, huh!

Now I finally know....

Some of you may remember a while back when I posted that things for me had gotten so that I couldn't stay focused on what I was doing, feel bad most days and all gets on my nerves and I wondered if it were something to do with using patches to quit smoking.

Well, things for me has gotten worse over the past few weeks. My legs and feet started swelling on me, got so I can't even walk 20 feet before I get tired, weakness and out of breath. Sometimes I even fall because my legs give away. Gained 16 pounds in just one and a half months. Also get tremors. Bad enough that when I take a shower, I have to lean against the shower wall so not to fall. Just some of what is happening to me....

Got to be enough because I wasn't getting any better after I quit smoking as I should have been. Finally gave in to see my doctor a couple days ago and now spending this evening in the hospital and after a lot of testing of blood, lungs, gaining body fluid/water, blood clots, EKG, X-rays and about everything else you can think to test for, turns out it wasn't anything to do with smoking, quitting smoking patches  but is an underactive thyroid. I don't know, maybe the cigarettes were given my body enough to hide the thyroid problem for a long time and the more I quit smoking, the more the thyroid problem showed up. I never had any idea the thyroid could do so much damage to ones body.
But at least now I know what is wrong and have to start on meds, then retest and retest over again to get meds adjusted for me and hopefully before long I will be back to my old self...... FINALLY!