Tag Archives: synthroid

from a couch, darkly recovering from an allergy to new meds.

Posted on April 20, 2012 by

sad update from Earlier (do switch to other blogs if this is becoming Too Much – we’d like to ;) ……….so by 11AM the “turning red and Hot” feeling has transposed itself Rather Hideously to Covered in hives (yes, nasty … Continue reading →

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turning Red

Posted on April 20, 2012 by

In an unwelcome preview of becoming More Mature, in time, we had a Horrible heat flash suddenly descend upon us this morning. It must be due to the increased (don’t ask) dosage of the post-surgery Synthroid. So scary. We were … Continue reading →

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surgeon visit = more meds. #sigh

Posted on April 17, 2012 by

so our blood tests came back….. …….so we headed Back to The Hospital for the following: 1. Pressing of the Scar (ow!) 2. Stuff ending in _caine shot up nose (ugh!) 3. Camera up nose and Down Throat (ow!!) 4. … Continue reading →

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the day the batteries died…….

Posted on April 13, 2012 by

are we on a Bad Batch of synthroid? can that happen? Is there a sell-by-date (we checked, on the horrible orange bottle, seems not)? Do they cut the synthroid with something weird or is it pure (maybe we don’t want … Continue reading →

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don’t snort the synthroid

Posted on December 18, 2011 by

hmmmmm. so they upped our synthroid following latest (awful) blood test results (following the surgery twelve weeks ago which removed three tumours/tumors/Tobias-and-his-sisters, two glands and our entire thyroid – and, for a period of a week – our vocal chords … Continue reading →

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higher doses and lesser worries.

Posted on December 16, 2011 by

It went alright. Well, it Went. Because it does. But OW. ow! It hurt. The snakey camera up-the-nose-and-down-the-throat (and out again – almost worse, if that’s possible) Diagnosis. More rest. And more synthroid. #ugh So we took a stroll into … Continue reading →

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some days are better than others: today was Not that day

Posted on November 1, 2011 by

it has (sadly just) occurred to us, darlings, that this is the bit that sucks. we were So Nervous about surgery (and cancer) and getting through it without nasty narcotic chemicals that we quite Forgot that the Worst bit might … Continue reading →

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allergic reactions: synthroid in the city

Posted on November 1, 2011 by

no pictures today. not sure what we’d show you, to be honest. it’s even hard to type (swollen hands). does the synthroid make our blood sweet? because we seemed to have attracted a mosquito, lost in manhattan, perhaps flown in … Continue reading →

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blood tests and tomato soup.

Posted on October 27, 2011 by

Familiar place…… so we found out why we can barely get out of bed in the mornings since the surgery seven weeks ago. our blood tests were Most Revealing. Amusing moment in surgery office – actually two: 1. Strange choice … Continue reading →

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visions of the last week of June: bucket, spade, novels, tea-shops and William in CORNWALL!

Posted on October 27, 2011 by

oh, darlings, we are So Terribly Excited. our Good Friend William (who writes this very witty and occasionally rather naughty blog here) and I are planning a holiday/vacation/respite from manhattan (for us) and london (for him) for the last week … Continue reading →

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