Posts Tagged loss of libido
A Whole Lotta Hodge Podge, Yo.
Posted by Lotus, aka Sarcastic Mom in Body/Health, Depression, Parenting, Thyroid on January 15, 2008
So, for today, you get a hodge-podge of totally random crap, just because it’s floating around in my head. Aren’t you lucky!?
Why yes, yes you are. (Just smile and nod in agreement. Don’t disagree with the crazy lady.)
So, first off, when I did the post with the video of Braden and the Bubble Machine, several of you asked about the bubble machine. IT IS AWESOME. Just my humble opinion. Braden has loved it from the very first time we used it, and, I will childishly admit that so have I. I’m a sucker for a bubble – that’s why I call them tiny packages of happy – and a machine that spits them out non-stop is a machine Momma likes.
It’s from Summer Infant. I first saw it from OneStepAhead, but you can buy it cheaper at Walmart. (Those last 2 links go right to the product, btw.) I picked ours up at a local Walmart, so no shipping and the base price was lower. I made sure to tell you about both, though: for the cheapies (like me) and the Walmart Haters (like me, but who aren’t cheapies).
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Next up, I wanted to mention that “Operation Potty Familiarize” has begun. No, we aren’t exactly expecting Braden to be Potty Trained at 15 months. What we do expect is that familiarizing him with it now will make things much easier in the future. And? He has peed a nice long pee in the potty twice this week. YAY!
(And do you care? I dunno. But I like to talk about poop and pee, so there you have it.)
We have this Baby Björn potty:
given to us by my sister (the one he’s peed in twice), and we just bought this Graco potty:
for its many cool features (like cushioned seat, easy to clean collection bowl, and removeable ring for use on toilet) and b/c Veronica at Toddled Dredge said good things about it in her potty review.
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For those of you who are following my Hashimotos Thyroiditis Escapades from me revealing my problems to the lab work and how my vagina fell off, and then on to finally hearing back on my tests… the latest news is that:
1) I still haven’t paid my lab bill of $387. Better pay it. We’re about to incur even MORE expenses…
2) I FINALLY heard back on an appointment with the Endocrinologist (after waiting for only a week and a half – yay for prompt medical attention!) and I have an appointment scheduled for January 28th.
I would like to mention that neither my doctor, nor any of the nurses, have decided to give a shit that I walked into that office and told them that I have been feeling very depressed lately. I was told that I would not be receiving an anti-depressant to help with that since the underlying medical problem could be the cause. Of course, they didn’t refer me to a therapist or counselor of any kind either. Just have to wait over a month to even have an appointment to get that checked is all… sure hope you don’t kill yourself or anything in the meanwhile… Is that responsible patient care? Just wondering.
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While responding in e-mail to comments left on the Screamie McGee post on Monday, I found myself sharing a gem with a couple of folks (MP and Bill), and I decided I’d pass it on to all of you, because it made me chuckle. So, it follows:
[As per Braden's screaming lately:]
John and I have decided that we are partly to blame. Braden sees us yell when we get mad.
Me to dog: “NO! NO! BAD DOG! GO GET IN YOUR BED! LIE DOWN! STAY!
John to TV: “NO, NO NO… YOU IDIOTS! BLITZ! OOOOHHHH, THAT WAS A HORRIBLE CALL! I HOPE YOU DIE!”
Me to John: “STOP YELLING AT THE TV, DAMNIT!”
Both of us to Braden: “STOP SCREAMING, THAT’S SO ANNOYING!!!!!!!!!”
It’s like, uh, spanking your kids for hitting? Heh.
So, part of our battle plan [to rid us of The Shriek] is a kinder and gentler John & Lotus. No more yelling to solve our problems.
Damnit @ kids making us be better people!
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Are you clicking all the links? Don’t make me record your ISP and find out where you live, only to hunt you down and obsessively watch you through the window of your home, while clenching a hunting knife between my teeth.
Cause, I will SO totally use it to cut through your cable line. So there.
Now, go vote for me in some of those categories on the right sidebar. Not because I’m threatening you or anything, but because you honestly think I’m funny, like my parenting tidbits, dig my photography, and find me to be a hot mommy. Even though I have a muffin-top and backfat.
Haik’use me, your thyroid’s F’D up, lady.
Posted by Lotus, aka Sarcastic Mom in Uncategorized on January 4, 2008
The levels of my
Thyroid Antibodies are
Insanely high, yo.
A quick update on my thyroid labwork. I finally got a nurse on the phone a couple of days ago. She told me a few things that aren’t so awesome.
First of all, a bit of history: My levels have, in the past, been skewed such that the THS (which supresses your thyroid) was low… meaning my thyroid was actually running faster than it’s supposed to. Before anyone gets all jealous (that b*tch had built-in weight loss hormones!) it was not enough to make me lose weight. (You’ll remember, I was told, ”It’s not bad enough for us to medicate yet.”) It was just enough to make me feel like supremo crap – nervous, tired, moody, and anxiety prone. That has been the case whenever I had it checked from 2005 up until now.
Also, thyroid antibodies were detected at such levels that I was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis. That basically means that my body created an army to take out my thyroid, as if it were a foreign body, and is regularly attacking and mutilating the poor thing. As such, I have Goiter – a swollen, hurting, sad, whiny, crying thyroid that is just screaming out – “Pweease, pweease, stop hoorting me!” I regularly feel like someone is choking me, and it’s hard to swallow sometimes. *whine, moan, cry*
So, onto the current events.
I finally got my nurse on the phone, and she says, “Your thyroid hormones are normal.”
At first, you would think this is good news, right? Ahh, grasshopper, but no. Because what that means is that the “hyper” phase has now switched and the hormone level is heading in the other direction. And good folks, what that means is that before long I’ll enter the “true” phase of hypothyroidism.
But the fun continues.
“Your thyroid antibodies are incredibly high. So much so that Dr. Crowe wants you to go see an Endocrinologist.”
How high are we talking, people?
There are 2 measured antibodies.
TPO - Normal Range: 0 – 34, My Result: 216
Anti-Thyroglobulin – Normal Range: 0 – 40, My Result: 849
And apparently, when your thyroid is taking a beating from an antibody level that high, it’s enough to cause the symptoms I’m experiencing (depression, fatigue, loss of libido, dry skin, brittle nails, weight gain….), even if the other hormones measure “normal.”
Well, butter my biscuit.
So, no relief for me yet. I’m on the waiting list for the best Endocrinologist in town. At some point, I’ll get an appointment, and more tests will need to be done (and paid for – with what? my bellybutton lint?)… and maybe one day, I’ll get some medicine to help me feel better and be happy.
Maybe one day.
And hopefully we won’t have to sell Braden on the black market to afford all of this.
(In China, of course, where boys fetch more… what? So I’ve done my research….)
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