I'm not really thrilled with the thyroid thing and how many women seem to be put on it, etc.; it reminds me too much of the other, lets-all-do-hormone-replacement thing back in the 70's-90's and the horrible DES in the 50's? They still don't know that much about menopause, are still treating it like a "disease" and I don't trust them. All the illnesses I have they don't understand but are happy to throw powerful meds and hormones at which then wreck your body's ability to do much. Why the doctor's don't get a clue and "make" you work on your diet and set up exercise classes, etc., or at least offer them I wonder about. They let the whole diet industry make a shambles of that area and then stick their noses in the air.

I was trying to tell my doctor about my wonderful work at Sparkpeople.com and how I'd lost my 45 pounds and it went in one ear and out the other and he handed me a single sheet of paper about a 1500 calorie diet, had nothing to do with what I was saying/bragging about. Recently when he said I needed vitamin D and wrote a prescription we both joked about, "Oh, I'm getting on that bandwagon am I?" as it's the new, "in" thing now it seems. The blood tests in a couple months will test my vitamin B12; I'm going to be doing a lot of liver eating before then He thought my B was low last time and I realized the next day that I'd been out to dinner the night before my blood tests and had 3 beers and alcohol/beer processing needs B vitamins, duh. So, I'm going to live perfectly for a couple weeks/month before I go to the doctor and see what I can see :-)

I have an adrenal mass and we check it every now and then but anything having to do with that adrenal/thyroid/pituitary triangle worries me and in addition to all the diets mess they let the "adrenal fatigue" people make their bucks selling bogus snake oil, etc.

But mostly I'm pissed because I had too much Levaquin and other antibiotics which altered a bunch of stuff inside I can never get back right again and I'm pissed I'm getting older and things are going to break down, there's nothing one can do about that but we keep forgetting that and keep messing with stuff in ways we shouldn't. Like I was telling my doctor last month, if I lost 100 pounds now, at my age, I'd be all heavy duty skin folds and who knows what problem they'd cause as I'm not about to have the major surgery to remove the excess skin! Yes I can improve my overall health with diet and exercise but at what cost at this point in my life? No way I'm going to spend 5-6 hours a day exercising to keep off 100 pounds, just not my lifestyle at this point, I don't think.