Blood Test Results

Well, my doctor's appointment went about the way I expected it would.  My kidneys, liver, (I have no idea why she checked those, but I'm glad she did) and pituitary gland are fine.  My FSH/LH levels are not.  My FSH was 153; in the words of my doctor, "off the charts".  My LH was really high, too, but I don't know the number.  So, I guess I'm in "early menopause", as my doctor said, although I think the term for it nowadays is Prematu.re Ovar.ian Insufficie.ncy.  Basically, I have the ovaries of an 80 year old woman inside a 22 year old body. lol  Dr. L recommended me to an endocrinologist she trusts to try to figure out the WHY behind all of this, and for now I'm still going to be on estrogen and progesterone.  

I'm also severely lacking Vitamin D (even though I take 1000 mg a day), so I have to take 4000 mg a day now!  Getting some sun to help is out of the question for now, because it's a whopping 16 degrees here today, and the highest it's supposed to get in the next few days is 40.  Yay for Ohio! 

I did, however, receive some sweet, sweet vindication from all the millions of tests she took!  My thyroid IS messed up!  I knew it, I knew it, I knew it! And so did all of you! :)  My T3/R3 ratio is wrong (I can't remember the numbers), which means I have a kind of hypothyroidism (please correct me if I'm wrong, ladies, because I don't really understand all of this and I'm going off of what my doctor says).  So now I have to take my temperature and my pulse 4 times a day to make sure they have a correct diagnosis so they can give me the right kind of treatment.  So far, my temp has yet to reach 98; the lowest reading so far was 96.57 degrees.  My pulse, however, is pretty high, which worries me.  At 11:00 today my pulse was at 88 beats/minute! 


Emotionally, I think I'm doing okay.  I was expecting my FSH levels to be high, so I wasn't as disappointed as I could have been.  Sometimes thoughts creep in my head like, "I'll never have children. Ever." but I quickly squash them and try to take one day at a time.  I'm trying to trust God's will for Boomz and I, because as horrible as IF pain is, it is temporary even if I am childless my whole life.  Our Heavenly Father has a plan for us, and I don't know what it is yet, but I know that it IS good.  And I'm making myself cry, so I'm going to stop writing now. :)