h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Sometimes I'll sit in this room, at the PC, and sweat, sometimes I'll sit in the front room, on the sofa and sweat, and occasionally I'll go outside and sweat, or sit at the dinner table and sweat, or shower and sweat, or get into bed and sweat until its time to not be in bed anymore. I'm getting quite boared with sweating and not being able to do anything the hot weather doesn't help, but ATM it doesn't really make much differnce on sweating, no matter what the external temperature is... Showering is pretty much a waste of time, soon as I'm out, after I've towel dried off teh shower-water, I then am covered again in sweat. Had a couple of eggs for breakfast, with toast and prednisolone, and just had some baked beans for lunch; but not baked beans.... - kidney beans, in a tomato sauce, with spices... which the shop nextdoor sells had the 'beans' with a couple of pies that had been in the freezer for ages we took out last night. talking of which I shoudl probably try defrost the freezer soon if I can muster any energy at all W had to ring the surgary today, actually he went there first, to chase up a letter which, as it turned out, they hadn't recieved. Two phonecalls later, he found they'd not recieved the letter because it hadn't been written. - privitising the NHS is so not working;

ear problem, went to GP, bleh bleh, misdiagnosed, sent to private clinic by GP, who didn't do anything as GP had misdiagnosed, then back to GP antibiotics, then back to GP, refered to another private clinic, who then told W its still infected, and wrote a scripts for some drops rahter than oral antibiotic.... and then didn't send the script to the GP, hence why the confusion.... their admin is bad enough when its only internal NHS admin (they lost the letter from neurology last year, saying I had brain cancer suspected, for over a year, before followed up eventually), so, now they're outsourcing most of the GP surgery stuff, it appears the admin is even worse who'd have thunk it

I frequently have problems with diaphoretic sweat myself.

It doesn't seem to be at all heat related, but starts instantly with the slightest exertion.

This doesn't necessarily seem to be related to exertion, or even outside4/external temp... - the sweating is worse (or at least more uncomfortable) it its already hot and humid weather, but that doesn't necessarily seem a trigger....

Oddly feeling quite full of energy today (longer and longer since I last took any levothyroxin), and went out into town with W, to the bank, boots and Tesco... - actually felt nice at first the sun coming down onto my half bare back and bare arms etc - wow!; coming out of Tescos, which is cooled by all the open top refridgeration units, and I think maybe also air con in there, the heat outside just hit both W and I!; but I was fine, not sweating at all really, as I just wa' wasn't having a 'hot flush' I guess... - when I was in oncology the other day, for my clinic checkup, when we were in the waiting area, one of the admin/nurses who knows me well, actually bascically ran over to me, asking if I was alright, as I was so rosey cheeked and sweating so much, and she agreed to me, it looked a lot like a female hot flush (she gets them apparently) ... we compaired notes, and mine seem to be over more of my body, where as her's mainly affect face and neck, mine will go all down my legs too, back etc Oncologist didn't think it was anything related to the cancer, or chemo treatment, etc, and said he probably thought it endocrine related ... but then again both endocrine Drs and oncology Drs like to always blame each other for any symptoms and ailments I have, as that alwayss means none of them actually bother to test,or treat me - also told oncologist about all the heart palpitations, and again he brushed that off as endocrine related, so didn't test or anything - still a possibility haowever slim, that the heart palpitations could be congestive heart failure cranking up, as due to the water loos/retention problems, due to the medications I'm on, causing perlipheral oedema, and basically taking all the liquid out of the blood... I keep mentioing it to endocrine Drs and nurses, as sympmtoms of the heart palpitations are marked as needing imediate medical attention for both side effects of the levo and the steroids... had them for... maybe nearly a year now, and no one will even check it - although my GP did do an ECG on me, because of the oedema, earlier this year, and when I was admitted to ER for the crisis in May, I think they did more ECG type stuff too as well as a chest X-ray Mind, having said which, the palpitations are reducing now, as I've dropped the levo, so I guess maybe its more down to the levo than the steorids, though both may be contributing.... This being a Dr thing is so interesting... I should porbably get the thermometer and blood pressure monitor out, again, and get W to do obs for a couple of days so I can plot it, and compaire the readings now, to when I was on levo and we did a few days obs - some of the sweating or, indeed most of it, ATM could still be the testosterone levels I guess, or indeed lowering oestrogen/oestrodyle levels, as the first flush into my system of the testosterone produces high levels of oestrodyle, and I guess as that sinks down, that might also produce some menapausal type symptoms...

Amusingly, the nurse/admin in oncology, suggested to me, I might as well "gfo the whole way", I.E., avoid the testosterone problems, and just have a biochemical sex change... which is a tempting idea... I've already done the first stage for them, as I'm not producing any testosterone naturally, so they'd not even need to use the .... whatever they're called to block the testosterone production Definately not feel so hot/flushing today, not even got any wet hair yet on the back of my head may take advantage of having some energy and get some housework done and then see if I've enough energy to finish off the sewing I started way back in April I think it was

only really came over flush-like twice, once earlier this afternoon in pharmacy picking up drugs (but it was hot anyhow)... and then later after shoering but both were short lived... getting less I think

soaked. sweating that is only two weeks and a bit until next testosterone injection and I an stop sweating again for another three or four weeks this is gona get tedious untless my levels do ever atually top up adn accumulate.... they were starting to accumulate, but the last two times, I was way off the bottom of 'normal' range.... which is a meaningless 'normal' as I start into menapause like hot flushes, and then worse flushes and sweating, long before I'm near the bottom of the normal range