Big doctor’s appointment today

Today was my big endocrinology appointment! I’d been waiting for it for almost half a year. I really should be seeing the endocrinologist every three months, but because of my country’s crap socialized medical system, someone like me who needs regular specialized medical attention can’t get it and has to watch the days go by while suffering without recourse.

I intentionally didn’t get my thyroid blood tests done this time, because I don’t give a damn what the results would say. No matter what, I’ll continue taking whatever medications, in whatever amounts, I find to treat my symptoms.

I desperately want, and have wanted for the past two years, this endocrinologist to address the fact that many of my hypothyroid symptoms have not gone away with treatment for hypothyroidism, whether using synthetic T4, synthetic T3, or natural T4+T3. The main three are weight gain, sleep disturbance and sweating. Right now I’m managing the sleep problem with melatonin, though I prefer not to; the weight gain isn’t such a big deal because I don’t really care about my weight; but the sweating, however, is really awful.

He seemed surprised that I hadn’t tried anything for the sweating yet. He gave me a prescription for Clonidine, which is a medication for high blood pressure that is also used to treat some other things. I am kind of worried to take it because I have already fainted a half dozen times and strongly prefer not to do so again. But I’m going to take it at night when I take my melatonin, so I’ll be in my bed or close to it anyway.

The doctor asked me to call him in two weeks and tell him how it’s going with the Clonidine. His receptionists do a terrible job and he never gets messages, so I guess I’ll have to go back over there to deliver the message in person.

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