Is the T3 working? - part 2

Earlier this week, I would have had to say, "No!"...because I fell asleep at work! Holy smokes! It was after lunch, and I just ran out of gas. I think it was on Wednesday. I was sitting in front of my PC, working on something, and I just felt really tired and sleepy. So, I allowed myself to drift off because I couldn't fight it anymore. One of my co-workers noticed that I had drifted off due to my posture and slammed a drawer shut to wake me. She said she had to slam it a couple of time to get me up. Great. WTF! Thank goodness this only happened once this past week! But looking back, the past month had been full of up and down energy levels.

So I had to think back to my sleep pattern, anything else that could be causing me to be so tired, other than my meds. Well, I was on vacation for a week, but managed to go to sleep at 4am just about every morning. I did all the driving the whole week, in a minivan. I was less stressed over work stuff....well, maybe not really, but at least that is what I was telling myself. I was able to nap on the flight home. The next day I was up early to take my dad to his cardiology appt. Hadn't worked out since the day before I left for vacation (Sun, May 1). Hmmm......nothing too different there.

Then I started to look at my meds. I am prescribed 1/2 of a 25mg T3 each day, which means I have to split my pills in half to get the proper does. Now, the first round I was pretty good at splitting in half. But I remember the second and current round, I was not as precise since I know several of the split pills were noticeably smaller than the rest I had split. I wonder if this could be it, the reason for me not being consistent with energy these past couple of weeks?

I just started round three of T3. Since my T3 can be generic, this round was in fact made by a different manufacturer. The pills are round now and thicker than the first two rounds. I bought a new pill splitter since I broke the one my mom uses. I actually broke her pill splitter, then realized I could easily split the pills manually, between my fingers! Silly. Anyway, I tried to be more precise this time. I actually busted one of the halves of one pill, so I hope I remember to take that pill last so I can take all the scrap pieces and hopefully make up for it being crushed and possibly smaller than it's partner side.

I am still trying to get more hours of sleep in as well. Friday and Saturday nights I ended up falling asleep in front of the TV for an hour or two. But, on both days this weekend I didn't take any naps. And, I was pretty busy both days. Hopefully my energy will be more consistent and not non-existent as it was last month.