Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Not going so well...

Well, I just realized I didn't blog my letter yesterday. WHOOPS!! I was going to do it now, but I decided not to.

Yesterday was so incredibly stressful. Last fall when I was at school, I noticed my heart was acting funny. It would skip a couple of beats, then speed up super fast. This would only last a few seconds, but the results was a few minutes of me not being able to catch my breath, and getting super freaked out.

It got worse as the semester went on, and I was going to mention it to my mom at Christmas time, but with everything going on then it just really escaped my mine. There were also issues with my dad and health insurance going on then (but that's another entry).

A few weeks ago, I was in St. Louis with my dad when it happened again, and I literally could not catch my breath for 10 minutes. That was the last straw-everything possible that could be wrong with me was going through my mind, and it was stressing me out to the point of exhaustion.

So yesterday I went to the doctor. They did an EKG (which showed nothing wrong!) and took a blood sample. This morning I woke up to a message from the nurse, saying she had the lab results and needed to talk to me. GULP.

Turns out---I have an underactive thyroid. Weird. And, it can cause the shortness of breath and heart palpitations. I still have to do testing for my heart, just in case.

But I finally feel like I can relax. So, look for another blog tonight as I continue the 30 day letter challenge.

1 comment:

  1. I'm so glad that everything is ok! I know it has to be scary knowing there might be something wrong. I think my mom has underactive thyroid too, actually, and she is on some medicine to help control it. If you need anything, let me know!!

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