Posted by flame on April 19, 2006, at 11:23:59
In reply to Re: Husband Giving Up - SLS, Link, ED? » flame, posted by SLS on April 18, 2006, at 15:29:49
Okay.. so the testosterone is something that definitely should be looked into, sounds like!
"Does he get angry only when he is intoxicated?"
No, not only when intoxicated. Actually, he is (usually) pretty calm after he's been drinking. To be honest, even with all that he drinks, he never appears to be intoxicated until a while after he takes his ambien at night. This happened just last night and has been a constant bone of contention for me: I met my husband up at the bar and we had dinner. I left after one hour and my husband said he was right behind me. Well two hours later, after I had been asleep for sometime, he got home and proceeded to insist on waking me up. Because I became ornery (because this happens too much) he got very angry and began yelling things out quite loudly. (Very mean things!) This, I know, is a result of him drinking and then taking that ambien.
I know I got off on a tangent there .. but again, today I am VERY frustrated. I slept very little last night and am exhausted today. This just happens way too much. Our (adult) kids are even noticing how "crazy" he acts when he combines his alcohol with his ambien. Oh .. and also last night, all of a sudden his mirapex isn't working for his restless legs. HELLO! Considering his alcohol intake, I am amazed that anything has helped (for even a little while) with his restless legs!!
While I agree that my husband needs to have the correct tests done on his thyroid, I don't agree with setting him for an appointment with an endo. I have talked to many people and read many books whereby, generally those endo's are just TSH watchers, also. I think there are a lot of people that are struggling with all kinds of symptoms, because your old school drs. only look at the TSH. If I can find someone that would test his TSH along with his FT3 and FT4, I think that everyone (Dr. and ME) would get a better picture of what is going on (or not) with my husband's thyroid. Just my opinion, of course.
I am trying to think of a way that I could accompany my husband to his pdoc this Friday. I asked the last time and he told me no way 'cause I say too much. I tried (last year) to call my husband's pdoc to fill him in on what was going on at that time and asked him not to say anything to my husband .. but he did. So calling his pdoc is not the answer. My husband gets furious when he thinks that I am trying to "interfere". He says that his doc doesn't need to know those things and that it is none of my business to be telling him. Sigh .....
Boy, this post turned into more of a rant than anything else, didn't it???
Thanks! ~Flame
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