Posted by Simus on September 4, 2004, at 18:54:25
In reply to Re: I've lost track......... » Simus, posted by KaraS on September 4, 2004, at 13:53:38
> Hi Simus,
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> Are you feeling better today?Much! Thank you for always caring. You are very special.
> > > > The past two weeks I have been dizzy, anxious, very oily skin, hair loss, no weight gain/loss though...
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> > > Have you started taking any supplement or anything that might have caused these side effects? As you probably know, only the hair loss is typical for hypothyroid (that I know of anyway). How strange! Maybe when you know who gets back from daddy mode, he'll have some insights.
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> > I have noticed that I seem to have a yearly "symptom" cycle. Right around August I have had anxiety and just feel generally dizzy/nausious and yucky. Then around January I have had to deal with depression and low energy. I am wondering if the thyroid can fluctuate between a little too high and a little too low throughout the year.
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> Have you ever considered bipolar disease? I know it seems like a stretch but I was reading other posts by people who were diagnosed with that and some of them had very mild conditions. Do you remember BarbaraCat? Did you ever read any of her posts? I would never have guessed by the symptoms she listed that she was bipolar. Yet that was her diagnosis and lithium ended up helping her immensely. Did you have these symptoms prior to the Lexapro because medications can bring on the bipolar condition? Jane Pauley's condition was brought on by steroids which obviously effect the sex hormones. Lexapro definitely effected your sex hormones as it gave you the menopausal syptoms. Maybe messing with the hormones is enough to do it. OTOH, if you were bipolar, then wouldn't the Wellbutrin have made you quite manic? I don't know. If you think this might be worth looking into, I'll find the BarbaraCat posting(s) for you.When I was diagnosed with depression, I studied the symptoms of manic depression and compared the manic phase to the anxiety I was experiencing. It really didn't seem to fit me. Actually, the "summer anxiety" was usually accompanied by some level of depression.
> > > Fortunately, this opportunity came after I'd already been feeling somewhat better so that i could do well on the interview. (Had it been a week earlier, I doubt I could have risen to the occasion.)
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> > Timing is everything. Just this week I spoke to some people where I used to work. They have too much work and need people, but I just felt so bad... If it had been just a month earlier...
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> Yes, but if you had gone back to work and then gotten sick like this, it could have been disasterous for you both physically and mentally.Oh, I would have felt awful about it. These were the people that put up with me for 3 months on Lexapro (virtually non-functional) and then one day came in to find I was on sick leave for an undetermined amount of time. Then if I got sick again as soon as I came back, I would have beaten myself up over it so bad...
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> > > It's a long road sometimes I guess.
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> > Yeah. It sure is. Sometimes it seems endless...
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> Yeah, I know. But then when something good happens again, you feel encouraged again and it doesn't seem so endless.Yeah... =)
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> > > Please keep me posted on how you're doing.
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> > Ditto. If we don't have any good news to report, we can always resort to pondering the truth about the elusive Larry. Hey, I have one. Could it be that the young Hoover boys are actually Larry clones? Maybe he just couldn't keep up with all the questions here, and so he is multiplying himself. What do you think?
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> Yes, that's a good idea! He's been so busy, I'm not sure he's even reading these. Just think of all the fun we could have! I'm certain you're right about the cloning. Knowing Larry, he figured out how to do it years ago. I just can't wait for them to grow up and help us out here when that selfish Larry decides to take vacations. (LOL)Next time he goes on vacation, I promise I will let you come barge into their privacy with me. We'll be like Lucy and Ethel in Hollywood looking for movie stars, only we'll be Kara and Simus in the Alps looking for Larry and Gabbix2(did I get her name right?).
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> BTW, did you notice how excited Larry got about the article I posted for him? He was so funny. (I was so glad I sent it as I had been debating whether or not he'd be interested in it.)NO! What it on Alternative??? I will have to look for it. Uhhh... You're not trying to elbow me right out of the next vacation, are you???
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> Keep the faith,
> KaraDitto to you, my friend,
Simus
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