Oh my gosh, this appointment was so completely worth the wait. I FINALLY was able to see the doctor who I made an appointment with last September about my thyroid and adrenals.

He was so nice and he spent over an hour talking to me. He explained everything and I asked him a million questions about thyroid, adrenals, gluten, and, of course, Lyme. Best of all, he didn’t freak out when I mentioned I have Lyme disease. In fact, he’s treating several patients with it! I was so excited when I heard that, I could have jumped up and hugged the man. This gives me another alternative if my ID doctor drops me after 12 weeks! And he said that he treats for a minimum of six months, longer if needed.

As we were going over everything, he said he agreed with my Cortef dosage for the adrenals and he would have dosed the same way based on my tests from last October. He didn’t, however, agree with my thyroid dosage. He said I could get the same effect if I waved the bottle under my nose every morning! LOL

So he gave me a new prescription for it and I will add one pill every two weeks until I get to four pills a day (1 grain in the morning and 1 grain mid-day). He also reviewed all of my supplements with me and made a few tweaks with them.

Then came time for more blood tests. He’s checking thyroid again as well as a ton of other things. I asked him if he would check my vitamin D levels again since I’ve been supplementing that for a while now and he said he would check anything I wanted to have checked. Have I mentioned how much I love him?! When it was all said and done, he took 8 vials of blood so that should be some pretty extensive reports!

He also agrees with my other doctor that the adrenals will likely turn around once the Lyme is under control. It’s possible the thyroid will as well but not as likely. The same goes for the gluten – it’s going to be a wait and see kind of thing. He’s going to test me for gluten intolerance so we’ll see how that ends up coming back.

I go back in eight weeks to have my levels checked again to see how my body is reacting to the changes in my meds. He’ll send my blood tests by mail with notes on them of any additional changes that need to be made.

All in all, it was a good day on that front. Now, back to the ID doctor tomorrow for a Lyme follow-up. I’m not expecting great news there.