Toot… excuse me!

And so my symptoms progress… for the past few weeks, I’ve been having these horrible headaches that seem to come and go in spurts.  I’ve never had a migraine diagnosed, but I would imagine my headaches are pretty close to what one would feel like.  It’s like this blinding pain and I feel like my eyes are going crossed and my vision is blurred. 

Anyways, so today I have a major bloating problem… and I’m so gassy.  The gas pains are so bad that there’s times that I can hardly move because it feels like my abdomen is going to bust out of my skin!  (yes, sorry if that’s TMI for you… but hey, we don’t know each other so that’s all right by me!    )  So I decided that I would research some of my issues:

• headaches
• cold hands/feet (even in the dead of summer)
• bloating
• extreme fatigue
• hair loss
• low bbt (my highest temps are usually at or just  below 98.4 – and that’s usually during my luteal phase)
• Major mood swings
• and the list goes on and on and on….

So I’m diagnosing myself with hypothyroidism… or Wilson’s Temperature Syndrome.  Any one heard of the second?  I’m wondering if it’s a real syndrome or gibberish.  My regular doctor tested all my thyroid functions and he said everything was normal, but I still disagree – people just don’t feel like this… period.  I also decided that since my doctor was on vacation and my next appt isn’t until the end of August… I was going to make my own appointment with an endocrinologist.  I called the closest one and unfortunately “the doctor is only accepting patients in this county.”  Excuse me?  But can a doctor really reject seeing you because you live in another county?  The office is 15 miles away from my house… what’s up with that?  I had to make the call from work today… I figured I would have to answer detailed questions and since my “cube” is not very private, I went to my car.  Since thatnumber was the only one I took with me, I didn’t want to go back to my cube to find another doctor to call.  What a waste!  It’s times like these that I wish dr offices would get cyber smart and have online appointments… wouldn’t that be great!?!?!?

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