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I Feel Like a Wind-Up Doll

I've always been a night owl. Look at my posts and you can see a pattern of them being written late at night. Yet lately it's been more pronounced. Saturday mornings, I can barely function. Today is Labor Day, and it's kind of like a Saturday. After sitting around watching Overboard and Fluffy, playing with the dog and wondering if I should seek medical help, it was like someone wound me up at 8 PM. I mowed the lawn, finished the ironing and made low-carb cookies. I feel like I could go "diggin' ditches through an isthmus, and rough ridin' down to Cuba like 'What's up bitches!'"  I'd love to feel like this during the day so I could get more done and then sleep at night. That, and not feel like I need medical help for the first 12 hours of the day. I'm going to take an adrenal function test next weekend and hope that sheds some light on my problems.

Maybe part of my problem is that I still have bronchitis I caught July 4. However, the NDT pills I've been taking for low thyroid have been bringing me back from the feeling of being in la-la land. So today, I finally searched the Protein Power blog by Dr. Mike Eades, in my opinion, the most useful health blog out there. An entry from 2008 recommended an African herb called pelargonium sidoides, better known at my house as Umcka Cold Care. D'oh. I had an effective medication in the medicine cabinet all along. It's been working better than Mucinex--although it may just be that it's nighttime and I'm feeling better.


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Lowcarb team member said…
Sorry to read you are not feeling well.
Hope things improve soon for you.

All the best Jan
September 04, 2019
Val said…
Are you taking your thyroid hormones first thing in the AM on an empty stomach?
Taking too late in the day might be causing some agitation.
Hope you find the answers you need soon (get better)!
September 11, 2019
Lori Miller said…
I take half in the morning with food and half mid-afternoon. I took my afternoon pill late today, and I'm not sleepy at 11:40 PM. I'd been sleepy at this time the past few days.

I do feel a lot better. I'm still coughing a little, but I'm about well.
September 11, 2019
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