Cryptic Medical Foo

[kiya]

Hey, the new doctor sends me my lab results! Cool! *putters about googling obscure terms*

Hey autumnesquirrel, I've got enough platelets for two!



My TSH is at 5.41, which is within the listed 'normal' range of .3 - 5.5 ...

... or would be if a 2003 recommendation hadn't suggested 'normal' TSH has a high value of 3, from what I keep reading ...

(Doctors keep looking at me funny when I say I was treated for hypothyroidism as a teenager. Every single one says, "Hypo?" Yes, damnit, hypo. I know I don't fucking look like it unless you take a measuring tape to my neck. Look at the damn numbers, okay?)

Trying to figure out how bothered to be about this. Meh.

Comments

[ardaniel]

It's probably a question for the doc, and then, if the doc feels there's enough there to warrant concern, for a good endrocrinologist-- possibly even, since I know you're looking at having children someday, a reproductive endocrine specialist. High TSH can mess up your chances of conceiving, but that issue goes away with treatment, from what I understand.

[kiya]

I had it tested because I think it important to keep tabs on it (and also getting it tested at first appointment with new doc convinces the damn doctors that I'm not an idiot who doesn't know her own damn medical history), and because of the whole having-children-thing, so getting the ducks inarowed on appropriate medical baseline.

I will probably drop a message to them at some point this next week, when I've decided how much to be concerned once I've taken into account my tendencies towards hypochondria.

[ardaniel]

Yeah, I'm currently battling a bout of "MUST MARCH ON PLANNED PARENTHOOD AND SHOW THEM MY OVARIES WHETHER OR NOT THEY APPRECIATE IT." Totally understand. ;)

[kiya]

"Take my organs. Please."


Speaking of things you will totally understand, I went and got a shiny at the shiny place and it's all your fault. (I also got one for my mother, as it's her birthday in a few days.)

[ardaniel]

...uh, I got three shinies from the shiny place?

Which got me a fourth shiny?

And then I won a fifth one from the Shiny Woman and her cohorts today. There's a big fucking envelope of shinies headed my way.

I didn't actually OWN any shinies before this. The last two I had are somewhere *in the Atlantic.* But now I have five. Go figure.

[kiya]

You have sudden, amazing powers of accidental girliness.