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I've got it! finally got the prescription of liquid levothyroxin, late on this afternoon, from the pharmacist.... it, is the expensive bottle... I think they're a couple hundred quid per bottle - here's hoping this is a version of thyroid med I can tollerate, and which doesn't actually make me more ill, and give me all the symptoms of the hypothyroidism, which its ment to treat....

50 McG per 5 ML oral solution. my dose is 12.5 McG per day, (very very very low starting t dose), so that equals, (I hope), 1.25 ML per day we've two differnt syringes the pharmacist gave us, to chose from, to draw it up in, then I guess just squirt it into my mouth.... - I vet it tastes disgusting

Anyhow, that was later on today; we went to the pharmacist and picked that up, just after 4 PM, once we'd got back from hospital....

hospital today was for my testosterone IM injection, which went as easy as useual; I asked the nurse if she'd done it, by the time she had stuck the ickle plaster on me, and had just about finished throwing all the stuff away into the sharps bin...

Was two new staff there today, moved to the clinic from the hospital diabetes/endocrine ward, they were really nice; and betwen them they attacked my useless blood vessels in my arms, to get the necessary blood out for the useual check on liver function, testosterone level, blood count etc., etc., took two needles today, my trusty vessel on my right arm, on the bicep, just didn't work and stopped bleeding immediately, so for once, my left arm seemed to work and gave up the red stuff nice N easily - the nurse who gave me the IM, my useual one, was demonstraing the IM injection to them; the testosterone injetion is a very viscous fluid; so it sits in the muscle, in effect, like a depo injection, to last the twelve weeks . . so it i s done with a bigger diameter needle than regular IM injections....

I promised the two new nurses they could practise on me if they wanted, seeing as how I rarely feel it and they might as well practise on a willing real patient to learn how to do it (I oughta charge for myself, as a trainee pin cushion)

We walked to the hospital, so had a nice hours lon gwalk there, to get some cardio in, (it was hot though, unfortuantely) got the bus home, though, stopped stopped off on the bus a stop early, to go to the International, and pick up more houmous; I finished off the last of the previous tub with breakfast

Breakfast today was houmous, on three bits of toast. Two hard boiled eggs, on top of the houmous, then, two rashers of grilled bacon, broken into pieces, on top of the eggs - as we were out over lunchtime that was both breakfast and lunch.

I also ate a banana and an pear, before leaving to walk to the hospital....

snacked on a free gorgeous little cake we were given by the girl in the International (its Ede ATM), - must not* ever buy those... they are so* tasty... and I hate to think how many calories that was

did a chicken and mushroom biriani for dinner tonihgt, which was a bit late, as we went for a late nap... - I'd not slept at all again last night not sure why... probably just the internal vibrations/tremours/heart palpitaitons keeping me awake....

Off out tomorrow night, but not tonight, as it was wet... thunder here earlier and rain, of course
Was out briefly last night, to the pub...

Gym tomorrow and sunday, if we've the energy, and if the liquid levothyroxin doesn't make me violently ill, or crumpled up in crippling pain, or paralisis. or, of course, give me such bad diarrhea I can't leave the house, like the tablets did Just hoping the liquid levo doesn't give me side efets, and make me more ill. if it does, then I'll really have to push to make the Drs do the right bood tests this time, to figure out why; I've got the relivent scientific pappers to quote at them; written, as it happens, by my own Drs. go figure. so tired tonight... just had my melatonin, and gave myself the GH injection udnred

I've got my fingers crossed for you for the new medicine.

thanks I oughta feeel really unwell, with low/no thyroid hormone.... yet I seem to feel the opposite, at least when I've been on the tablet hormone levothyroxin.... if, of course the liquid works, and does* make me feel better, then I might actually return to something resembling 'normal' . . well normal for me anyhow

not a brillient day to start on it today, although I did.- didn't sleep last night, again.... second night on a row, no sleep, so by the time I go to bed tonihgt, I'll have been away..... awake.... err...72 hours - so no idea if I've any bad reaction to the med, as I'm tired, from being awake so long... though I've not had any digestive problems, which is good as that was a real pain with the tablet for of levothyroxin Not actually feeling too bad, ATM, had a long long long hot bath earlier.... all the himalaian magnesium salt imaginable, some bodyshop foaming rose bath oil stuff, a lush Dragon's egg bath bomb, and* a caldrens coluldren from Llush (sp?) just had dinner, and now off out to the LGBT meet up at the pub - going for a natural sleep linctus tonight to ensure I sleep.... I>E., beer... well, and melatonin, but that doesn't actually make one sleep, not like sleeping tablets do anyhow... I never got on well with most sleeping tablets though; always make me hallucinate as if I've done some LSD or soemthing, and give me bad paranoia, unless its the really hardcore sleeping meds, and, obiouvsly I try not to use them, as they're bad news