Science is finally catching up with what I have lived with for at least 69 years… and when I got put on Levothyroxine in 1993, I had no clue I was in for a ride of hell unlike any I had ridden before and guess who got to come along for the ride??? Homer!!!
I had my suspcions that I had brain trauma by the time Homer and I married in 94, but I, like most people, had to work, raise kids, grankids and home and life was busy… and doctor Rubio at Spokane VA, he tried… He sent me for a contrast CT in Oregon, but it didn’t pick up the damage or the brain bleeds… Why??? Because they were very old and not easy to see with CT… It takes a MRI and that CT was done in 2001… the MRI wasn’t until 2019… and It was a long hellish road on thryoid meds that I should have never touched….
By the time the MRI was done in 2019 and we found the moderate TBI on my right frontal lobe and we found the brain bleed(s) on the right side of the brain… Only one problem….
No one knew when it happened and how… But I did…
Covid hit shortly after that and seeing doctors and going to appointments, slowed to a snail pace and I changed my primary during that time and told the young doctor…
I am not taking those meds anymore… I don’t need to be on thyroid or cholesterol or gerd or anything…. I needed my inhaler only… and my flexaril on occasion and that was all I wanted to take… She didn’t argue and said, we aren’t forcing anything you don’t want… (I went medicare, quit the VA)…
During this time I am seeing the Neuro/psychologist on the Big Island and he is helping me understand all the neurological injuries I sustained during my childhood, as I never had any brain trauma during my adult life up to that point and things started making sense…
By the time we returned to the mainland in 21… my blood work was back to normal… no weird hormones, no thyroid, no nothing… and what meds do I take now… Cholesterol and BP meds… occasional Ibprofen or tylenol and flexaril for the bad days of muscles not liking my workouts…
My thyroid is just fine and my weight… My weight is under my control, as long as I leave the cheese out of my diet…. but for 72 years old, 142 pounds at 5’8″, not bad…
I like so many other women quit taking hormones back in the early 2000’s due to fake science and they put me back on a hormone in 2011, but stopped them by 2013, I didn’t need to be on one and my bones are healthy and always have been… So is my heart….
Morale of the story… If you are a woman and you have had brain trauma, concussions, etc… and you get put on thyroid medication and it turns your world into a living hell and they tell you if you quit all hell breaks loose with coma and other bull shit!!!!!!
Becareful if you quit the thyroid drugs… I had blood work done and I made sure I was monitored yearly after I quit the medication and I made more changes to my diet and activity levels… But I also knew I had over….. 20 concusions, several brain bleeds and a moderate TBI… We don’t know if there was more trauma… the memory trigger is still doing it’s thing with me remembering…
I know being off those drugs made a huge difference in my wanting to strangle Homer on a regular basis… so that part of it… messing with my hormones and imbalancing my brain… I don’t miss those days or years, neither does Homer….
So if you feel levothyroxine isn’t for you… Fight, but be sure, you know what your are fighting for….
I remember…
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