At 3pm I was still in debate as to if I should wait until tomorrow morning to take my first dose of Levoxyl since it says to take it on an empty stomach preferably first thing in the morning. But, then again the Levoxyl is what will keep my TSH level down enough to put any cancer cells to sleep. What is more important to me, starting to maintain that level where the cancer will sleep or waiting to take it as directed? I chose to start it today.
Happy to say that my first meal post low-iodine diet was SUSHI! Judy, as promised, brought some over for me around 4pm. I had a California roll and a Rainbow roll. It was a lot, so I had to pace myself as I have gotten sick eating too much sushi too fast in the past (Todai sashimi bday disaster in 2004). It was enough sushi for a late lunch and dinner! Was thinking maybe I'd do Chick-fil-A for dinner since I was having sushi for lunch, but that won't be necessary now.
As I took my first couple of bites of sushi, I started to wonder if the soy sauce was going to affect the absorption of Levoxyl in my body, but what was I going to do, not eat perfectly good sushi, that I have been craving for over two weeks now?!? No way! My energy level is a little better than it was this morning, so I guess the Levoxyl is working. Will see how things go tomorrow as I will start the day correctly with Levoxyl before breakfast. What I'm not too happy about is that I have to take it religiously at the same time every single day. Right now I am waking up between 7am and 8am, but when I go back to work, I'll be getting up around 6am. That means no sleeping in on the weekends. Or, perhaps I could just get up at the usual time on the weekends so I can take the Levoxyl, then go back to sleep. I guess I'll have to figure this one out over the next couple of weeks so that everything flows like clock work when I return to work.
My stomach is still feeling a little upset, but not enough for me to have to hurl again, I don't think. So far RAI Day 3 is going pretty well!
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