I'm still here....

I'm still here!

I guess when things are going well, I've stopped thinking about posting or using this blog as a way to process/blow off steam/ figure things out.  Other things get in the way I guess because I'm feeling ok and acting like  fairly normal human being.

Once I switched from years of Levoxyl to Armour, I felt great!  Oh so good.  Energetic, no brain fog, actually feeling like I want to exercise, no anxiety--just normal, or what I seem to remember normal used to feel like.

Then, slowly that wonderfulness had dropped off....I still feel ok, but after about  year on Armour, my T3 has gone up way too much, leaving me feeling edgy and anxious.  Snappy too--I can snap at the slightest little thing, and my moods can swing fast from one extreme to another. Ugh.  I hate it.  I saw Dr. N in September, and she is playing with the Armour dose so that I'm taking 5 1/2 pills every 7 days.  I asked her if she'd have to lower it more, and she said, "That would be weird."  Not quite sure what that means, but I'm due for a visit with her in February.  Can't decide if I should call before and ask to have my levels tested and tempt the hand of Fate, or keep hoping that cutting back on the meds will eventually balance themselves out?  I guess I could go back to Levoxyl now that it's back on the market, but I felt really really good with the Armour and I don't want to let that go.  I guess the trade-off is being snippy, anxious, edgy and borderline miserable....that doesn't make sense.

Sigh. Just when I think it's all getting better and evening itself out.

School is busy this year, and I find myself staying late a few nights a week.  That doesn't help either since I'm not getting the exercise I need to keep the pre diabetes numbers at bay or down.  I'm still teaching one AP class and being department head the rest of the time with 14 teachers and 5 languages to deal with.  Never boring....