Now at my third lot of bloods being taken to see if the thyroid has been controlled and nope, you guessed it, it's all over the place. TSH has shot up again to 18 while the T4 has come down to 17. TSH being high means high cholesterol and that's what I also have. I have been around 8 stone for years and now that I'm 50 and because of the ignorance of the consultant concerning my other health issues I am having more problems heaped on top of those I am already stuggling with.
Seems the more Thyroxine I have the T4 goes up and the TSH comes down, the less I have the more TSH goes up and T4 comes down. Can this ever be controlled?
In my family there is a history of heart attack and stroke, so high cholesterol country beckons. Luckily I don't smoke or drink but I do like chocolate and it's a real struggle trying to conrtrol my weight which has now ballooned to 10 stone. My spine is struggling because of the weight which is impossible to shift. I can just not eat yes, but that affects the thyroid readings. I'm waiting on the bone density test to come back but the doctor called today to say that my FBC is all over the place and I need an iron test now. More blood tests, but the only problem I have is that the nurse taking the blood is hopeless, she can't find a vein and then when she does blames me for 'sending adrenaline round to stop the blood' what a load of old tosh!!! The tourniquet she uses is lethal, really pulls it tight and then when she gets a vein leaves it tight so it hurts the vein and all the muscles in my arm which today, two weeks afterwards are really sore. She refuses to use the small needles which i usually have so I'm off to see the doctor this week to see where else I can go. Because I've been 'discharged' I can't go where the phlebotomists are fantastic, they use a tourniquet but as soon as they have the blood coming out of the vein they loosen it and I have bloods taken with no bruising and no soreness. This stupid nurse at my surgery doesn't realise that their incompetence leads to no decent veins and yet they still blame me for their cack-handedness when they need blood but can't get it- only in Britain eh?
Meanwhile my doctor is writing back to the consultant, not very happy at the unhealthily fast way I was discharged. All I was told before I had the radioactive iodine was 'you'll be fine, if anything you'll just be a little underactive' - try having blood which is a nightmare to take because of cack-handed nurses, high cholesterol when I've never had that in my life, be mightily overweight with an already damaged and fragile spine, a history of heart problems and strokes in the family and then tell me I'm fine. I can't believe how some doctors are so stupid, but this consultant really is and boy will I tell her so when I see her. I'm already considering a formal complaint to the hospital .. I'll keep you posted.
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