Today was my follow-up from my January appointment with my new thyroid and adrenals doctor.

The first thing I wanted to discuss was the fact that the cardiologist blamed the rhythm on my thyroid medication. He was irritated with that statement (at the doctor, not me) and said that the thyroid meds can cause a faster heart rate if you’re getting too much but they don’t cause a change in rhythm. I’ve had tachycardia for quite some time so I don’t think the thyroid medication that’s only been in play for a few months can suddenly be blamed for that part of it.

We discussed my symptoms and I let him know that I had not really been able to tell much difference with increasing the thyroid medication. When I saw him in January, I was only taking 1/2 grain in the morning. Now I take 1 grain in the morning and 1 grain at mid-day. As I continued to go over my symptoms, he said he wanted to run more testing.

One thing he wants to test for is other autoimmune diseases including Lupus, RA, MS and a few others. So he said he would run some markers for those. He doesn’t expect to find anything but given all of my symptoms, he just wants to be able to rule those out. Fine by me.

Next, we talked about making sure my thyroid and adrenals are optimized so I need those tests again as well. You usually don’t do the saliva test for adrenals while you’re on medication but he said that it would just give him an idea of how my body is using the medication. So he sent me home with the saliva test to do. I’ll do that one day next week and send it off.

He is also going to test my hormone levels as he said those being off could have an effect on the way I feel. And finally, he’s going to test for gluten allergy. But because I haven’t been eating any, it may not be an accurate test.

He drew blood for all of the tests and said he will just send me my labs with notes on any adjustments he wants me to make via mail. So now I just get to wait for more test results.

Let the fun continue….