Hyperthyroid?!?

I checked my blood work results online last night because I wasn't sure why my Levoxyl dosage would be decreased if my levels were above normal. For the record, my TSH was below the normal range while my Free T4 level was above the range. From everything I've read online and in books, as a ThyCa patient, I know my TSH has to stay below .5, and my level was at .25, so I was confused as to why my dosage should be decreased - wouldn't that mean my TSH would also increase, and therefore stimulate any remaining cancer cells to wake up and grow? Well, not necessarily in my case. This is why I should leave all the important stuff like interpreting lab results to my ENDO.

My research indicated that a low TSH and a high Free T4 points toward hyperthyroidism, or overactive thyroid. This is weird because I think I have many of the symptoms of hypothyroidism - low energy level, constipation, weight gain, etc. But, since I just got my monthly reminder that I am a girl, I suppose that all could have been bad PMS - at least this time I didn't cry each day for no reason at all or have really bad depression and mood swings. My monthly cycle was never consistent before, so I don't imagine anything that happens now will seem normal. I don't remember being consistent for more than five months at a time, then something would always change, like I'd skip a month or something like that. So here's yet something else I'll have a new 'normal' for. Isn't there some saying that you are not normal if you are normal? I think I used to tell myself that when I was a teenager because my life didn't seem to be like all of my friends' lives - I didn't think I was normal at all. And here I am, 25 years later and I'm still not normal. Ugh!

For some reason my ENDO placed my new Levoxyl order with a mail order pharmacy, so I have to wait for the new prescription to arrive before I start taking the lower dosage. I need to report back to him if any of my symptoms change or new ones appear. Nice - at least I am my own personal guinea pig.

You know, I never thought that my health issues affected anyone close to me so negatively, but turns out I was wrong. I think I'm dealing with it Ok - sure I like to know what all the possibilities are, good and bad, but it's just so I can be prepared for the worst if things go that direction. This apparently drives some people close to me CRAZY, which seems odd to me since I'm the one who has to live with it, but I guess I have forgotten that it also affects them too. Sigh.